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From: Milly Bitcoin <milly@bitcoins.info>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libconsensus separated repository (was Bitcoin Core and hard forks)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:30:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55B15CEA.9090703@bitcoins.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABm2gDrLJ+7kNRmmYUvJJ6d98zP5CBSenRVZv=rCSTHBLDA=+A@mail.gmail.com>

 > Mike has sincerely said that he would like "Bitcoin Core to have a
 > benevolent dictator like other free software projects", and I wanted
 > to make clear that I wasn't putting words in his mouth

He is just pointing out reality. Decentralization is really just a 
collection of centralized processes. If you ever want to change anything 
someone, somewhere has to make a decision.

Satoshi was the first dictator and he set the consensus rules for his 
version of Bitcoin and that is what people accepted. Those rules did not 
appear by magic nor did they appear via some unexplained 'consensus' 
mechanism. He made decisions and updated the code or accepted updates 
made by others.

Russ




  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-23 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23 14:30 [bitcoin-dev] Libconsensus separated repository (was Bitcoin Core and hard forks) Jorge Timón
2015-07-23 14:57 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-23 21:02   ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-23 21:30     ` Milly Bitcoin [this message]
2015-07-28  6:40 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-28  8:47   ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-07-28  9:58   ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-29 20:38     ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-29 21:46       ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-20  0:53         ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-20  7:14           ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-20  8:06             ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-20  8:35               ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-20 17:44                 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-20 21:26                   ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-20 21:35                     ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-21  6:46                       ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-21 19:46                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-21 20:07                   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-22 11:04                   ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-23  1:23                     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-23  2:19                       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-23  6:42                       ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-29 23:30                         ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-29 23:25                       ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-29 22:08                     ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-28  8:43 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-07-28 10:09   ` Jorge Timón

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