From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53EDC40A for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:50:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-pd0-f177.google.com (mail-pd0-f177.google.com [209.85.192.177]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E17218D for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pdbnt7 with SMTP id nt7so19788580pdb.0 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:50:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=S1DaNzUxYX7tvCjMLbVdlpkbonpYEkpJ2LzbAOExAAg=; b=X8oo++GgnZQQHSTBZvzXu+j0PS/ZT0jYCmLOvd45Nc0+5WGthxSyR7JiYfRSqb1xQw sHDTl1WKAWH4sAAiGav3b+6xh+HT9uzWd+ZHctd8kC6X4WorSpgjvE3vdHomRFocIiWN rDmUuaRIwExeRhY1K4hk9NcL6K3ZF1ZRdSvWWqxsHux1dxYdqAKNC8GIESIyLEmUrrtc UPegCLGDFIKXdiEeOj9cWtCl3NfJtdhc0i0LaV32Svxd6p+Vd6d4n0sCIuT72tAwdZ8Y RbHMEvyDZcO2QAya20C2ltV8udwPaFQW5y5uwRx8ADDfIZz96Jb30J3O45N4wH8qvCS3 ecGA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnSc5PvmK8S4ZPtl8goZxtNgRwMcPvEEzwfo6L2ih0ycleCbnljwpZ+D/2go0Q75x1RbWGs X-Received: by 10.70.23.98 with SMTP id l2mr36267017pdf.74.1437778236332; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.89] (99-8-65-117.lightspeed.davlca.sbcglobal.net. [99.8.65.117]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id cz1sm16411453pdb.44.2015.07.24.15.50.34 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:50:34 -0700 (PDT) To: =?UTF-8?Q?Jorge_Tim=c3=b3n?= References: <55B113AF.40500@thinlink.com> <55B1DB84.6070001@thinlink.com> From: Tom Harding X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55B2C13C.9040708@thinlink.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:50:36 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core and hard forks X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:50:37 -0000 On 7/24/2015 2:24 AM, Jorge Timón wrote: > Regarding "increasing the exchange rate" it would be really nice to > just push a button and double bitcoin's price just before the next > subsidy halving, but unfortunately that's something out of our control. Jorge, right now, from the activity on github, you are working at least as hard as anyone else, probably harder. Why? Why, if not to make bitcoin more valuable? Even apart from the convenience/curse of real-time exchange markets, just with an abstract definition of "value," isn't that exactly what a developer can influence, if not "control?" Isn't figuring out ways to increase the value of bitcoin what we are doing?