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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by fnordfnordfnord on Sunday February 02, 2014 @12:12PM (#7166608)
It agree that might turn out very well, but people have a right to be upset when the rules are changed mid-game.
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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by diego on Sunday February 02, 2014 @12:36PM (#7166695)
Those were the original rules. The title is misleading, people are disappointed because they expected the devs to eliminate the perpetual generation of coins in the original software. The decision was simply to do nothing.
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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by oafitupa on Sunday February 02, 2014 @06:43PM (#7168119)
Those weren't the original rules. Their development team made a mistake and the inflation problem was introduced. Bitcoiners warned them about this, they didn't listen.
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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by maxerickson on Sunday February 02, 2014 @12:16PM (#7166626)
It's an important blockchain lesson, that there are no rules, only a combination of concentrated technical leadership and majority sentiment.

If the blockchain this happened on was serious business you would probably see mass abandonment.

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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by fnordfnordfnord on Sunday February 02, 2014 @12:35PM (#7166694)
>It's an important blockchain lesson, that there are no rules, only a combination of concentrated technical leadership and majority sentiment.

Yeah.

>If the blockchain this happened on was serious business you would probably see mass abandonment.

The hard-currency fanatics would run. But where would they go?

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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by pmorici on Sunday February 02, 2014 @02:09PM (#7167051)
They would just fork the code base and take their existing doge stash down a different path.
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