One of the ways I think of Bitcoin | BIP-110 boils down to this: We get spam in our email inboxes every day. I think most would like to avoid it. But we make the decision on how to mark | filter that spam into trash. This isn't done by a unilateral rule change that decides what to filter, without
The article discusses the philosophical approach to spam in Bitcoin, comparing it to email spam filtering and arguing against unilateral protocol changes.
Bitcoin's BIP-110 sparked a fight over who gets to decide the future of Bitcoin
One of the ways I think of Bitcoin | BIP-110 boils down to this: We get spam in our email inboxes every day. I think most would like to avoid it. But we make the decision on how to mark | filter that spam into trash. This isn't done by a unilateral rule change that decides what to filter, without
Imagine a decentralized system billed as censorship/sybil resistant with 360 million people relying on it, but its protocol rules can be forcibly changed if just 0.0014% of them run a different software version. This is what BIP-110ers genuinely believe, many without realizing it