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From: GC <slashdevnull@hotmail.com>
To: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>, "Mike Hearn" <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Gavin Andresen <gavin@bitcoinfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:26:45 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BLU437-SMTP99848FCD5F3BA01BC433D3C6A40@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABm2gDq4vRYEaJ+JdCOAhwF9UnFESdzMraM2ChNQmMDyQ6hqMA@mail.gmail.com>


>When is the right time to allow space pressure to rise that ratio?
>When the subsidy is at 1.5625, for example, it may be too late to

I don¹t believe we have to decide, the miners will do that and are doing
that already.

>start a non-catastrophic transition from subsidies to fees.
>I don't claim to know that, but it's something that worries me.
>No matter how many people say "that's too far away in the future to
>worry about it", I still worry about it and I'm sure more people do.
>What if "when it's time to care about it" we discover that we should
>have started to do things about it long ago to minimize the risks of
>this transition?

Hmmm. What should be the price of an email? How much should DARPA have
charged for using TCP/IP?

I see a lot of well-paid, first-world technologists arguing for commercial
returns on a nacent protocol which could could offer benefits to the
unbanked.
Is that really the vision: to (re)build a de-centralized Paypal with
slightly cheaper fees and cool hooks into off-chain commercial systems
providing profits for the already rich?

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-19 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-18  8:54 [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers odinn
2015-06-18 10:00 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 11:14   ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 11:47     ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 13:36       ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 15:58         ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-06-18 12:29     ` Pieter Wuille
2015-06-18 12:50       ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 12:56         ` Benjamin
2015-06-18 13:49       ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 14:05         ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 14:16           ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 14:53           ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 14:56             ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-18 15:13               ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 14:53       ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-18 16:07         ` justusranvier
2015-06-18 16:28           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-18 17:04             ` justusranvier
2015-06-18 17:42               ` Alex Morcos
2015-06-18 18:01                 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 18:23                 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-18 18:44                   ` Alex Morcos
2015-06-18 18:49                   ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-18 19:31                     ` Ross Nicoll
2015-06-18 21:42                       ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-18 21:49                         ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-18 21:58                           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-18 22:33                             ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-18 22:52                               ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-18 23:25                                 ` odinn
2015-06-18 23:16                               ` Ross Nicoll
2015-06-19  0:57                               ` Chris Pacia
2015-06-19  5:59                                 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-19  9:37                               ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-19  9:53                                 ` Benjamin
2015-06-19 10:08                                   ` GC
2015-06-19 10:19                                   ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-19 10:52                                 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-19 11:31                                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-19 12:26                                   ` GC [this message]
2015-06-19 11:48                                 ` Brooks Boyd
2015-06-21 14:45                                   ` Owen Gunden
2015-06-18 21:55                         ` Ross Nicoll
2015-06-18 19:24                   ` Matt Corallo
2015-06-18 19:32                     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-06-18 12:38     ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 13:31     ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 13:50       ` Pieter Wuille
2015-06-18 15:03       ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-18 15:30         ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 15:46           ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 16:05             ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 16:20               ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 22:49               ` odinn
2015-06-18 16:11             ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 11:41   ` Lawrence Nahum
2015-06-18 14:33   ` Bryan Bishop
2015-06-18 18:09   ` Melvin Carvalho
2015-06-18 22:10   ` odinn

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