Re:What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable
by riffraff on Saturday March 05, 2016 @02:26AM
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but that has already happened, TFA is advocating moving to LibreOffice (BitcoinClassic).
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Re:What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable
by 0x006A on Saturday March 05, 2016 @03:05AM
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BitcoinClassic has to do what LibreOffice has done first. Write more code, have more active developers, fix more bugs - be the better community for new developers etc. So far none of this happened.
That has been tried before with XT and it failed.
Bitcoin Classic is the attempt to change the reference implementation from the Core code to their code, by only changing as little as possible (that is, raising the 1 MB blocksize to 2 MB).
The current problem is not being more open to other developers but to get a different reference implementation installed on full nodes and miners.
Re:What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable
by CookieMon on Saturday March 05, 2016 @05:03AM
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Yeah, but that's a chicken and egg problem because unless/until BitcoinClassic outcompetes the other one, none of your code will ever get executed, so any developer wanting to scratch an itch must contribute to the existing bitcoin rather than BitcoinClassic.
The dynamics don't work the same way as a traditonal FOSS fork. Perhaps getting mindshare first is the way.