@morcosa @bluematt @pwuille My testnet nodes have no record of 000000000000034ba26cee29d86f20d6ead376aa1b868c14fd13bacac54959de
@bluematt @morcosa @pwuille On testnet I’m seeing two different blocks at height 1094169; seems like a sustained chain fork.
@blocktrail @BlockCypher @coinbase @BitGo @rubensayshi @mriou @SatoshiLite I’m seeing different blocks as of height 1094169
@SatoshiLite @rubensayshi @mriou Looks like @blocktrail and @BlockCypher are on one fork & @coinbase / blockr & @BitGo are on other side.
@blocktrail @BlockCypher @coinbase (blockr) @BitGo we seem to have ended up on different testnet forks. @rubensayshi @mriou @SatoshiLite
@todu77 @TimoSci Correct; a complete understanding is not required to use it. But it is highly desirable if you’re trying to improve it.
@999BTC @todu77 I can see why it might be interpreted as arrogant, but my reasoning is explained here: https://t.co/qq1wHVuNiP
@alistairmilne @Jim_Harper @BitfuryGeorge The day Bitcoin becomes vulnerable to / reliant upon whim of judges is day I tender my resignation
@badslinky @Satoshi_N_ @CharlieShrem Personally I’d be in favor of something like that. Just saying I don’t think it can be forced.
@kyletorpey I guess you could say the fork cuts both ways, eh?
@Excellion I hear it’s possible for you to completely centralize your ashes into a synthetic diamond…
@Excellion Completely serious. I verified on my own while in Milan that @Excellion is, in fact, completely centralized into a single being.
@BitfuryGeorge IANAL, but I don’t think you’d have much success trying to do that…
@WhalePanda Last I checked there are ~10 implementations soooooo I think Satoshi was wrong on that one…
Legend has it that if you string together the magic combination of Satoshi quotes you’ll instantly unilaterally globally change the protocol
@KirinDave In terms of day-to-day operation, security model does assume most hashpower is securing rather than attacking the network.
@KirinDave With a public blockchain, it’s about each individual maintaining their own sovereignty. Thus when perspectives differ it’s tricky
@ErolKazan Bitcoin offers 2 solutions: 1) collaborate or 2) fork off
5) Contention leads to stalemate; collaboration leads to progress. Anger and aggression are not the path to the Tao of Bitcoin.
4) In response, the other group will dig in their heels even more. They shrug off perceived aggression, leading to stalemate as status quo.
3) This subgroup will then band together in defense against “authoritarianism” and may attempt to push the changes through.
2) Unfortunately, that means that sometimes when part of the user base wants changes, they may project rejection as control or authority.
1) Bitcoiners tend to be anti-authoritarian; they’re quite sensitive about perceived acts of control / authority & dig in heels against it.
@VinnyLingham Eh, whatever negative price movement happens, one side will blame it on the other…
@pwuille Or perhaps @khannib could add a similar graph to https://t.co/bEsQgKNtvL 🤔
@pwuille I feel like I’ve asked this before, but would it be much work to update your UTXO value graph? bitcoin.sipa.be/utxo_size.png
@Coinosphere As I noted in “Nobody Understands Bitcoin,” whitepaper is being used to support dogmatic beliefs a la the Bible/ Constitution.
I can try to explain Bitcoin to you, but I can’t understand it for you.
@BitcoinBelle @digitsu @kristovatlas Yes, BU has a well-defined governance model including a process for membership and voting on proposals.
@jasongantt71 It is like the Constitution in that it’s quite incomplete and our understanding of it has changed over time 😬
@digitsu @seweso @el33th4xor It’s not, because they can just plow forward until they surpass your AD.
@iang_fc @CommonAccord @SatoshiLite Time will tell…
If you think the whitepaper provides a complete explanation of the Bitcoin ecosystem’s complex power balance, you’re gonna have a bad time.
@cjenscook @iang_fc @SatoshiLite I can’t tell you how to value cryptocurrency; only you can decide that. 😉
@BitcoinBelle @kristovatlas If you hear people say a hard fork happened, safest thing to do is not make any bitcoin txns until dust settles.
@el33th4xor If a miner tried to do that, SegWit-aware nodes would reject those transactions and blocks containing them…
@iang_fc @SatoshiLite If everyone changes in a non-backwards compatible way, you get left behind. https://t.co/7xL0z3ggKC
@iang_fc @SatoshiLite You decide the contract you want & then seek out others who have chosen the same contract. Changing contracts is hard!
@Satoshi_N_ @CharlieShrem What is a “compulsory hard fork flag date?” Not sure how you’d make it compulsory…
lopp There comes a point at which one should shut up and out-innovate one’s opponents into obsolescence.
@iang_fc Indeed, by definition there is no authoritative definition. I like @SatoshiLite’s description that it’s like defining a word.
@twobitidiot @VinnyLingham Sometimes the only way to win is to not play the game. No one can take your HODLings 🙂
lopp I think one of the reasons that Bitcoin is so contentious is because cryptocurrency is different things to different people.
@twobitidiot Doesn’t sounds like a @VinnyLingham ragequit, but like a strategy to increase his bitcoin holdings. 😬
@BitcoinBelle @kristovatlas I hold no ill will against anyone because of their vision for Bitcoin. I found the Tao of Bitcoin long ago.