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February 18, 2016, 07:07:17 PM


You don't speak for all AnCap's. I absolutely support forking to bigger blocks and I have been consistently anarcho-capiltalist from my first post on this forum.

Agreed. Anarchists are like atheists, they have millions of unique voices and perspectives. I understand your perspective and respect it.

Anarchists want no rulers, so why would you support Core's technocratic hegemony? Regardless of the technical arguments against bigger blocks, why would you allow anyone to have veto power over any upgrade?  As anarcho-capitalists, we know that concentrated power can be abused and inevitably will be abused eventually.

Who says I support Core or Blockstream technocratic hegemony? I have repeatedly supported a diverse set of implementations with separate developers, and separate repositories. This is why further work in libbitcoinconsenssus is so important. I will not make the sloppy and misleading assumption that implementations that break consensus rules are akin to choosing between different browsers on the internet. This is a flawed analogy and a dangerous one as well. Choosing between implementations that diverge on consensus rules is akin to choosing between protocols in a distributed consensus system which is dependent upon agreement.  I encourage experimentation in different coins and protocols and will never interfere with your right to HF at any moment, but lets not pretend that this is merely about creating a diverse set of developer communities when multiple implementations have existed peacefully for a long time now.

This is funny indeed. I love how the libertarian in this discussion keeps using the words "we will" and variants on that. Sounds really weird!

I wouldn't consider myself a libertarian , but you do realize that anarchists can and do have solidarity with other anarchists. I invite you to meet some in person.

All analogies are imperfect or they wouldn't be analogies, just arguments.  You are correct that a losing fork is not like a browser with lower market share. It will almost certainly die quickly, but on a different time frame it is similar. Nobody is using Mozilla anymore.  Yeah, it's different, but it's hard to dumb down this conflict for the idiot masses without losing some of the essential elements. It doesn't mean it's an intentionally misleading analogy.