Hello all, I wanted to add another analogy
here to this block size debate, in case helpful. I understand some
may not see it this way, so apologies in advance if it ruffles
anyone's feathers.
In some ways,
however, to me at least - Bitcoin is like Windows 3.11. Before
Bitcoin everything was DOS - something completely disruptive and
good for society has come into the computing space that
exponentially improves upon almost everything in the space that
existed before it. Now there is a huge debate about if there
should ever be a Windows 95, XP, Pro, etc., that scales better and
makes advances over time, but doesn’t support facets of older
versions as it gets updated. What will happen to 3.11
users/developers/etc. who don't upgrade that have money and/or
important tech tied into the 3.11 platform? Should it just be
Windows 3.11 forever except with better programs that continue to
be built to run on it? Or, should we agree to only change
it if 100% of Windows users or Windows developers agree on
upgrading?
Regardless of what side we all stand on, I just want to point out
that this mailing list is full of incredibly brilliant minds leading
the charge into perhaps one of the greatest technical achievements
in recent decades. Maybe it would be a good idea for each side of
the issue here to democratically appoint a developer representative,
and then allow the representatives to achieve a framework and hammer
out the details of the solution together?
Hope you all have nice weekends,
Will
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