Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2x on 16th November

Re:Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2... by ytch on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:09AM (#15643016)

It's just like FOSS philosophy: Everyone can fork it. For example: SSLeay, OpenSSL and LibreSSL. Or SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0.

The one with most people use will win, why we need to afraid of diversity?

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Re:Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2... by funyug on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:13AM (#15643041)

Because they dont involve money but bitcoin does.

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Re:Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2... by x1798DE on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:16AM (#15643483)

Almost the entire payment infrastructure of the internet relies on one of the libraries / standards mentioned in the post above, so it would be a stretch to say they don't involve money.

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Re:Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2... by funyug on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:30AM (#15643610)

I understand but they are not directly involved in the process. They provide value to other systems rather than carrying the value themselves.

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Re:Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2... by lightbyte on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:28AM (#15643595)

That's a terrible comparison, my money doesn't get locked into a specific SSL library when I use one for the first time.

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