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Re:The Slow Criminalization of Peer-To-Peer Transfers by dwaltrip on Saturday June 03, 2017 @02:40AM (#14475317)
Roger Ver isn't an angel, but the core developers are far from deserving uncritical respect. They've failed for 3+ years to implement any of the dozens of proposed scaling improvements.
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Re:The Slow Criminalization of Peer-To-Peer Transfers by csomar on Saturday June 03, 2017 @03:26AM (#14475407)
This is a very political comment. The Core developers are free to do what they want. The software is open source and running it is the choice of the users. The Core developers are not compelled by any means to do any implementation even if the majority of users, exchanges and investors want it.
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Re:The Slow Criminalization of Peer-To-Peer Transfers by dwaltrip on Saturday June 03, 2017 @08:21PM (#14479240)
The parent comment implied that saying anything negative about core developers is a terrible thing, which is a view that many people don't share. My comment was intended to provide some insight into that aspect.
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Re:The Slow Criminalization of Peer-To-Peer Transfers by zby on Saturday June 03, 2017 @05:23AM (#14475612)
The problem is with deployment, not with development. The code is there.
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Re:The Slow Criminalization of Peer-To-Peer Transfers by dwaltrip on Saturday June 03, 2017 @08:21PM (#14479245)
Well, they haven't released any versions of the bitcoin client that support scaling, either. I do believe the core developers are in charge of releasing new versions of the reference client.
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