📅 Original date posted:2011-09-08
🗒️ Summary of this message: Bitcoin lacks automatic updates or notifications, making it difficult to ensure stability and scalability. The alert system is crucial for mass market penetration.
📝 Original message:On Thursday, September 08, 2011 12:51:02 PM Mike Hearn wrote:
> Bitcoin is one of the few pieces of software I use that has no concept of
> automatic updates or even notifications at all. Yet the network badly
> relies on people upgrading for stability, scalability and to enable new
> features.
>
> If the alert system goes away, it'd just end up being replaced by polling
> something over HTTP, which is less decentralized than before. Having zero
> way to communicate upgrades to end-users is a non-starter for anything
> serious about mass market penetration.
In fact, I think the alert system should relay (note, NOT display) messages
*regardless of the key used*, so it isn't yet another "our client gets special
status" thing, and can be used for other clients as well.
Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] /
npub1dt…u7wrs
2023-06-07 02:23:41
in reply to nevent1q…qyhs
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2023-06-07 02:23:41Event JSON
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