From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Simon Liu <simon@bitcartel.com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making AsicBoost irrelevant
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 18:50:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160511225030.GA5191@fedora-21-dvm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5733AF5A.6070207@bitcartel.com>
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On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 03:16:58PM -0700, Simon Liu via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > giving one
> > manufacturer/licenser a huge influence in who is successful in a market
> > that we're all relying on remaining rather flat.
>
> Central planning is a slippery slope. Let the market decide the winners
> and losers. It's not feasible to hard fork every time an innovation or
> perceived unfair advantage appears in the space.
That's why we're asking the market right now, and any actual hard-fork to make
AsicBoost irrelevant would be voted on by miners themselves and in turn, the
economic majority, again letting the market collectively decide.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-11 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-10 18:57 [bitcoin-dev] Making AsicBoost irrelevant Peter Todd
2016-05-10 20:27 ` Tier Nolan
2016-05-10 21:35 ` Matt Corallo
2016-05-10 21:43 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-05-10 22:59 ` Matt Corallo
2016-05-11 12:20 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-05-11 13:08 ` Marek Palatinus
2016-05-11 21:01 ` Matt Corallo
2016-05-11 22:16 ` Simon Liu
2016-05-11 22:50 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2016-05-11 14:28 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-05-11 16:24 ` Timo Hanke
2016-05-11 18:28 ` Timo Hanke
2016-05-11 22:49 ` Timo Hanke
2016-05-12 2:27 ` Tom Harding
2016-05-12 2:31 ` Allen Piscitello
2016-05-12 2:33 ` Peter Todd
2016-05-12 4:01 ` Tom Harding
2016-05-10 21:49 ` Marco Pontello
2016-05-10 22:17 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-05-10 22:27 ` Chris Riley
2016-05-11 3:14 ` Timo Hanke
2016-05-11 9:21 ` Jannes Faber
2016-05-11 10:36 ` Henning Kopp
2016-05-11 10:47 ` Jannes Faber
2016-05-11 22:42 ` Timo Hanke
2016-05-11 22:58 ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-05-12 7:29 ` Tom
2016-05-12 11:05 ` Jorge Timón
2016-05-11 14:07 ` Jorge Timón
2016-05-11 14:18 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-05-11 14:30 ` Jannes Faber
2016-05-11 20:50 ` Matt Corallo
2016-05-11 22:00 ` James Hilliard
2016-05-11 23:01 ` Peter Todd
2016-05-12 0:02 ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-05-12 1:23 ` Russell O'Connor
2016-05-12 1:58 ` Peter Todd
2016-05-12 1:58 ` Matt Corallo
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