Well polo's chat was a significant part of my polo experience, and it more than just sucks to lose the trollbox. Losing the trollbox is probably for me what it would be like for a twitter lover to lose twitter. They ended it so abruptly without any farewell or anything suggesting they feel any way about it. I hope that means they might bring it back, and not that they just don't care.

I kind of thought bitcoin was supposed to be mined and sustained by it's users who made up a consensus collectively. This seems wrong for a handful of people to be able to decide the future of bitcoin through a few emails or in a secret meeting. I think the biggest mining pools can and probably are accelerating blockchain congestion to extort higher fees and justify changing bitcoin in a way that gives them even more control over it. There should probably be some kind of public investigation into the mining pool situation. I bet they wouldn't even let an investigator into their buildings. owell