Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 17:39:35
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Andy Chase [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: πŸ“… Original date posted:2015-09-03 πŸ“ Original message:> Any such a BIP like this ...

πŸ“… Original date posted:2015-09-03
πŸ“ Original message:> Any such a BIP like this needs to
> document the natural forces involved in real-world acceptance, not try to
lay
> down "rules" that people are expected to follow.

That's my goal: to take the hodgepodge of we already use for acceptance,
and apply rules that allow true acceptance to be identified in a clearer
way.

If people don't follow the "rules" then the system simply won't work, this
is mentioned in the last section.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Luke Dashjr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Friday, September 04, 2015 12:30:50 AM Andy Chase via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > Here's a BIP. I wrote the BIP mostly to stir the pot on ideas of
> > governance, but I’m moderately serious about it.
>
> Sigh. There is *no governance at all*. Any such a BIP like this needs to
> document the natural forces involved in real-world acceptance, not try to
> lay
> down "rules" that people are expected to follow.
>
> For hardforks, that means economic consensus. For softforks, miner
> majority.
> For basically anything else, real-world implementation and use (by any
> significant quantity of people).
>
> Luke
>
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