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From: odinn <odinn.cyberguerrilla@riseup.net>
To: Mike Hearn <hearn@vinumeris.com>,  Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 02:05:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55B9E8D3.9010204@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+w+GKQoCy-MC3dTsXc=hvnBLxz_R5LJ3RTV81Az=wTbyELmjQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Mike, tone it down, please, when I read your stuff it's like you are
drinking too much Red bull or something.

On 07/29/2015 11:03 AM, Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> It was _well_ .... understood that the users of Bitcoin would wish 
> to protect its decenteralization by limiting the size of the chain 
> to keep it verifyable on small devices.
> 
> 
> No it wasn't. That is something you invented yourself much later.
> "Small devices" isn't even defined anywhere, so there can't have
> been any such understanding.
> 
> The actual understanding was the opposite. Satoshi's words:
> 
> "At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network
> grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to
> specialists with server farms of specialized hardware."
> 
> That is from 2008:
> 
> 
> http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/2/#selection-
75.16-83.14
> 
> 
> Then he went on to talk about Moore's law and streaming HD videos
> and the like. At no point did he ever talk about limiting the
> system for "small devices".
> 
> I have been both working on and using Bitcoin for longer than you
> have been around, Gregory. Please don't attempt to bullshit me
> about what the plan was. And stop obscuring what this is about.
> It's not some personality cult - the reason I keep beating you over
> the head with Satoshi's words is because it's that founding vision
> of the project that brought everyone together, and gave us all a
> shared goal.
> 
> If Satoshi had said from the start,
> 
> "Bitcoin cannot ever scale. So I intend it to be heavily limited
> and used only by a handful of people for rare transactions. I
> picked 1mb as an arbitrary limit to ensure it never gets popular."
> 
> ... then I'd have not bothered getting involved. I'd have said,
> huh, I don't really feel like putting effort into a system that is
> intended to NOT be popular. And so would many other people.
> 
> 
> Don't think you can claim otherwise, because doing so is flat out
> wrong.
> 
> 
> I just did claim otherwise and no, I am not wrong at all.
> 
> (Which, incidentially, is insanely toxic to any security argument
> for SPV; ---- and now we see the market failure that results from
> your and Gavin years long campaign to ignore problems in the mining
> ecosystem:
> 
> 
> Since when have we "campaigned" to "ignore problems" in the mining 
> ecosystem? What does that even mean? Was it not I who wrote this
> blog post?
> 
> 
> http://blog.bitcoinfoundation.org/mining-decentralisation-the-low-hang
ing-fruit/
>
>  Gregory, you are getting really crazy now. Stop it. The trend
> towards mining centralisation is not the fault of Gavin or myself,
> or anyone else. And SPV is exactly what was always intended to be
> used. It's not something I "fixated" on, it's right there in the
> white paper. Satoshi even encouraged me to keep working on bitcoinj
> before he left!
> 
> 
> Look, it's clear you have decided that the way Bitcoin was meant
> to evolve isn't to your personal liking. That's fine. Go make an
> alt coin where your founding documents state that it's intended to
> always run on a 2015 Raspberry Pi, or whatever it is you mean by
> "small device". Remove SPV capability from the protocol so everyone
> has to fully validate. Make sure that's the understanding that
> everyone has from day one about what your alt coin is for. Then
> when someone says, gee, it'd be nice if we had some more capacity,
> you or someone else can go point at the announcement emails and say
> "no, GregCoin is meant to always be verifiable on small devices,
> that's our social contract and it's written into the consensus
> rules for that reason".
> 
> But your attempt to convert Bitcoin into that altcoin by exploiting
> a temporary hack is desperate, and deeply upsetting to many people.
> Not many quit their jobs and created companies to build products
> only for today's tiny user base.
> 
> 
> My list of "things a full node is useful for" wasn't ordered by 
> importance, by the way.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing
> list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org 
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
> 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-30  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-28 22:25 [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29  0:43 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-07-29  0:44   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29  0:46   ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-07-29  0:55     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29  2:40       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29  3:37         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29  3:46           ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-29  5:17             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29 11:18         ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-29  9:59 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-29 10:43   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29 11:15     ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-29 12:03       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29 12:13         ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-29 17:17       ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn'ttemporary Raystonn .
2015-07-29 19:56       ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary Owen
2015-07-29 20:09         ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-07-29 21:28           ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn'ttemporary Raystonn .
2015-07-29 22:11             ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-29 23:10               ` Raystonn .
2015-07-30  3:49                 ` Adam Back
2015-07-30  4:51                   ` Andrew LeCody
2015-07-30  8:21                     ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-30  9:15                       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-30 12:29                       ` Gavin
2015-07-30 12:50                         ` Pieter Wuille
2015-07-30 14:03                           ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-30 14:05                           ` Gavin Andresen
2015-07-30 14:28                             ` Pieter Wuille
2015-07-30 15:36                             ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 23:33                         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-31  0:15                           ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-31 21:30                             ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-31 21:43                               ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-31  6:42                           ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-31 20:45                             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-31 20:57                               ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-01 20:22                               ` John T. Winslow
2015-08-01 21:05                                 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-07-30  9:16                   ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn'ttemporary Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-30  9:38                     ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 13:33                       ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-30 14:10                         ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 14:52                       ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-30 15:24                         ` Bryan Bishop
2015-07-30 15:55                           ` Gavin Andresen
2015-07-30 17:24                             ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-31 15:27                             ` Bryan Bishop
2015-07-30 16:07                           ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-30 17:42                             ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-30 18:02                               ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-07-31  0:22                                 ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-31  8:06                                 ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn'ttemporary Thomas Zander
2015-07-30 15:41                         ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30  9:44             ` odinn
2015-07-29 20:23         ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measureisn't temporary Raystonn .
2015-07-29 11:29     ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary Thomas Zander
2015-07-29 18:00     ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30  7:08       ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-29 16:53   ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-07-29 17:30     ` Sriram Karra
2015-07-29 18:03     ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-29 19:53       ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-07-30 14:15         ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-30  9:05       ` odinn [this message]
2015-07-31  1:25 Raystonn
2015-07-31  3:18 ` Milly Bitcoin
     [not found] <f9e27b28-f967-45f7-bd1b-c427534ade9c@me.com>
2015-07-31 23:05 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman

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