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No central authority - well at least until we hit a small technological bump and it becomes mildly annoying - then we will solve the problem with a decree or fi
by venomsnake 14y ago
No central authority - well at least until we hit a small technological bump and it becomes mildly annoying - then we will solve the problem with a decree or fiat.
- crapnowwhat 14y agoUpdate changes a hard coded limit to a setting with a default value. IE easily changeable. So it's more like a guideline. So basically they went in the opposite direction of a dictate with this release.
- venomsnake 14y agoEvery developer worth his salt knows that what is set as default stays as default for the majority of users.
- crapnowwhat 14y agoFor typical users I totally agree. My sense is that the miners who run the nodes probably are pretty comfortable tweaking settings. So as a developer who I dare say is worth his salt I'd agree with this regarding a general population, but not the group that's currently running the nodes.
- javert 14y agoAn open source software project has to make policy decisions. They've been making these kinds of decisions for years. In fact, there used to be (a long time ago) a rule that outputs smaller than .01 BTC were not relayed. The "no central authority" concept is from a different context, i.e., the fact that a decentralized Byzantine consensus type scheme is being used to guard against double-spends and to control minting, instead of an individual company or bank or government (i.e., "authority"). Plus, anybody can always fork Bitcoin.