📅 Original date posted:2013-06-10
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> -1
>
> Firstly I appreciate the ingenious thought that went into this post.
>
> However, Bitcoin's fundamental philosophy was one CPU one vote.
Indeed it was. Which is why as GPU's came onto the scene Satoshi was strongly
against them. I have to wonder what he thinks of ASICs where just a handful of
companies control the supply of Bitcoin hashing power.
Satoshi also never forsaw pools, which are why just 2 or 3 people control the
majority of Bitcoin hashing power.
> The asymmetry lies in psychological terms, in that new defaults tend to be
> adopted 80% of the time, so core devs have disproportionate amount of power
> as things stand.
That's why I'm very clear that doing nothing is a vote for the status quo. Of
course wallet authors can do what they want to try to get users to vote
according to their wishes, or for that matter simply steal your vote, but we
already must put a lot of faith into wallets to not steal our funds.
> Unless there's a very good reason not to, e.g. miners are clearly abusing
> the system, we should stick with 1 CPU one vote.
People are proposing we put control of the blocksize entirely into the hands of
miners, yet we all have an interest in auditing the blocks miners produce.
There must be balance.
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John Dillon [ARCHIVE] /
npub15z…kn0zr
2023-06-07 15:03:05
in reply to nevent1q…ejnf
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npub15z6e9t07ugx267aj3s3c487pln852ydytzlgu0vkkqxfznyvx4jq4kn0zrPublished at
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