This is not a protocol change, idiot.
It changes how the network operates and how some will verify the blockchain. |
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119525.0This should not be taken lightly at all. They want to restructure the entire blockchain which could potentially break Bitcoin if implemented poorly and all the nodes accept it. Push them not to implement this change into Bitcoin-Qt/Bitcoind until it has been tested for at least 6 months. Dude, will you whistleblow for every change the devs introduce from now on ? Bitcoin needs to evolve continuosly, though I'm very conservative and wish to keep their original virtues. If you are really concerned about future changes, I suggest you either : 1) Learn programming and participate in the code auditing. 2) Pay for a third party auditor to do that job. You can do #2 thru a "bitcoin auditing task force" and donations or something similar. It doesn't take a code audit to understand that changing the structure of the blockchain that will then be verified, which sets history for all Bitcoin holders, is a serious change that can go wrong. "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". |
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I can't see how that proposal would change the blockchain, it looks like it only changes how the blockchain is parsed locally.
Well, I need to reword what I said. The following looks like it might need to change how blocks are verified and mined: A small summary of the changes:
Instead of blk000?.dat, we have blocks/blk000??.dat files of max 128 MiB, pre-allocated per 16 MiB
Instead of a Berklely DB blkindex.dat, we have a LevelDB directory blktree/. This only contains a block index, no transaction index.
A new LevelDB directory coins/, which contains data about the current unspent transaction output set.
New files blocks/rev000??.dat contain undo data for blocks (necessary for reorganisation).
More information is kept about blocks and block files, to facilitate pruning in the future, and to prepare for a headers-first mode.
Two new RPC calls are added: gettxout and gettxoutsetinfo.If we change how blocks are verified and mined, and that is done with a bug included, it could lead to massive damage for the Bitcoin network as a whole since verification is everything. |
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Additionally, DO NOT ACCEPT a release of this kind until it has been tested for a long period of time regardless of calls for trust. This isn't a kangaroo court. This isn't Zion. This is Bitcoin, the money of a new age.
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I recommend not releasing this until it has been thoroughly tested and analysed for at least 6 months.
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119525.0This should not be taken lightly at all. They want to restructure the entire blockchain which could potentially break Bitcoin if implemented poorly and all the nodes accept it. Push them not to implement this change into Bitcoin-Qt/Bitcoind until it has been tested for at least 6 months.
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Since it's anarchy, then someone could have just go ahead and killed her.
Exactly right. Without the rule of law the average citizen must resort to violence as the final arbitrator of all disputes False. People can arbitrate without a government and/or violence. Read it again I said 'final' meaning when all other arbitration fails. Well, what can the government do differently besides using violence to put people in jail, fine them or kill them? |
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Additionally, the government can generally only impose its rule with violence.
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Since it's anarchy, then someone could have just go ahead and killed her.
Exactly right. Without the rule of law the average citizen must resort to violence as the final arbitrator of all disputes False. People can arbitrate without a government and/or violence. |
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So yea, if the government was never created, we could possibly be ether extinct by now, or it would be the wild wild west AROUND THE WORLD.
The old west had a much lower crime rate per capita than today. Except, of course, where the "wild wild west" was actually created by the government - where only criminals had guns and all their victims were disarmed and defenseless by law. Somalia is the wild west, everybody wanders around with a gun. Since there's no laws guess you can't commit any crime There are laws in Somalia. It is a theocracy under Sharia Law and many others. When it was lawless, it wasn't half-bad. |
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There wouldn't have been any reason to create an article if you were not trying to aggressively remove all mention of the reference implementation from the Bitcoin article ever since the creation of the Bitcoin Foundation caused you to hate it.
There is no reason for a Wikipedia article on every little aspect of Bitcoin. The reference implementation can be adequately covered in the main Bitcoin article, and it used to be.
Moreover, don't try to freeking votestack Wikipedia it's almost as despicable as your constant sockpuppeting.
Your first statement is not accurate. Bitcoind is well-covered in [[Bitcoin]]. Additionally, your last statement is libelous as well. |
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P.S. No, I am not pushing for deletion. Some deletionist scumbag is.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin-QtPlease fix it with reliable independent and secondary sources so people can understand the first application that started it all. No, bitcoin.org, bitcoin.it and anything directly tied to Bitcoin is not reliable. If you want an article for your client, please justify it.
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Who says there is a purpose in the first place?
The concept of purpose can only exist in the minds of men. And it does. |
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To answer your last question, absolutely nothing. Anarchy would simply be governance with new attitudes and standards. Government would be reduced to the notoriety of just another institution.
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Have the guy who wrote BitcoinJ make a proposal. He works for Google after all.
Although, they probably only accept a FOREX clearinghouse exchange rate. A little birdy told me that a clearinghouse in Hong Kong is working on that. So when that happens, Bitcoin will likely be on Google.
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Their whole webcam scheme is bullshit and unenforceable. Just use a .gif of face movement and you're good to go.
They are trying to add a feature that only hurts the honest.
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If the Foundation is seeking registration as some form of non-profit, then it's likely that voting procedures are outlined by law and that they can't just make them up themselves (here, votes by the membership of non-profits must be overseen by officers of the Electoral Commission who check that members were financial, that the required quorum was met, and that the required formal procedures such as notice, proposers and seconders etc were followed).
Why they chose Washington DC as the location, the most oppressive, regulated shithole in the world, is beyond me. Oh wait, it isn't because I am sure the original intentions were to get Bitcoin regulated. |
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