Luke Dashjr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-11-01 📝 Original message:On Monday, November 02, ...
📅 Original date posted:2015-11-01
📝 Original message:On Monday, November 02, 2015 12:23:27 AM Justus Ranvier via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> It's a lot easier to justify the position: "nobody has the right to
> change the meaning of someone else's outputs", than it is to justify,
> "some small group of people gets to decide what's standard and what
> isn't, and if you choose to use the network in a valid but nonstandard
> way, that group of people might choose to deny you access to your money
> in the future"
The reality is presently "some small group of people gets to decide how and if
you can access your money"... and it's getting worse.
> In other words, how close to the shores of "administrators of a virtual
> currency" do Bitcoin developers want to sail?
Bitcoin developers don't make this decision, miners do.
Luke
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