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From: Jonas Schnelli <dev@jonasschnelli.ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin, Perceptions, and Expectations
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:48:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55B1FBCE.1080002@jonasschnelli.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <COL131-DS24D730A430CE77D648AE9CCD810@phx.gbl>

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> There is now a pull request to remove mention of "zero or low
> fees", "fast international payments", and "instant peer-to-peer
> transactions" from bitcoin.org.  For those non-technical users who
> do not read source code, this may come across as the breaking of
> the social contract on what Bitcoin is ultimately intended to be.
> It looks like we already have a Reddit post on the subject as
> well.

This PR makes absolutely sense.
A documentation or description should reflect how a system works NOW.
Not how it *was working and how it *might work once.

The concept of free transaction just doens't really work well with the
current system and advertising bitcoin with "free transaction" is
missleading.

/jonas
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-24  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAPg+sBgs-ouEMu=LOVCmOyCGwfM1Ygxooz0shyvAuHDGGZYfJw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-07-22 16:52 ` [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core and hard forks Pieter Wuille
2015-07-22 17:18   ` Ross Nicoll
2015-07-22 17:32   ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-22 18:45     ` Bryan Cheng
2015-07-22 17:33   ` Jeff Garzik
2015-07-22 18:01     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-07-22 18:03     ` Alex Morcos
2015-07-22 18:24       ` Jeff Garzik
2015-07-23 12:17         ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-23 16:17           ` Tom Harding
2015-07-23 16:28             ` Gavin Andresen
2015-07-23 16:50               ` cipher anthem
2015-07-23 17:14                 ` Robert Learney
2015-07-23 18:21                   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-23 18:47                   ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-23 17:43               ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-23 18:10                 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-07-23 19:14                   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-23 19:35                     ` Gavin Andresen
2015-07-23 19:39                       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-23 19:51                       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-23 19:52                     ` Jameson Lopp
2015-07-23 20:26                       ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-23 20:52                         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-23 23:42                           ` Benedict Chan
     [not found]                             ` <42BF7FEB-320F-43BE-B3D9-1D76CB8B9975@gmai>
2015-07-23 23:57                             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24  0:04                               ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24  0:20                                 ` Simon Liu
2015-07-24  0:22                                 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-07-24  0:32                                   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24  0:38                                     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24  0:45                                     ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-07-24  0:49                                       ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-07-24  0:53                                         ` Peter Todd
2015-07-24  1:03                                           ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-07-24  1:08                                             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24  1:25                                               ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-07-24  1:28                                                 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24  1:37                                                   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24  1:42                                                   ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-07-24  1:55                                                     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24  2:12                                                       ` [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin, Perceptions, and Expectations Raystonn .
2015-07-24  8:48                                                         ` Jonas Schnelli [this message]
2015-07-24  9:42                                                           ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-24 14:37                                                             ` Vincent Truong
2015-07-25  2:18                                                               ` gb
2015-07-25 11:22                                                                 ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-25 15:04                                                                 ` Thomas Kerin
2015-07-24  0:56                                       ` [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core and hard forks Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24  1:05                                         ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-07-23 18:12               ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-23 18:57                 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-23 17:51             ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-24  6:30               ` Tom Harding
2015-07-24  9:24                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-24 22:50                   ` Tom Harding
2015-07-28 11:29                     ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-28 11:32                       ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-28 16:44                       ` Tom Harding
2015-07-28 17:33                         ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-22 19:17     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-22 21:43   ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-22 21:56     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-22 22:01       ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-22 22:09         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-23  1:53         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-22 22:30     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-07-23  0:27   ` Tom Harding
2015-07-23  0:37     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-23  4:40   ` Edmund Edgar
2015-07-27 12:08   ` Peter Todd
2015-07-27 12:44     ` Milly Bitcoin

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