"Code is law."
"Sometimes laws should be broken."
Discuss.
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It is ambiguous & wet , but on some base-line level it's going to be unavoidable, no? Blockchains can minimize social/ wet interference & make doing so "expensive", but (I think we agree) this "interference" will occasionally be necessary
No, it's very avoidable. Take a look at how by far the most successful blockchain, Bitcoin, is governed. Its success comes from its ruthlessly minimized argument surface. Ruthlessly enforced scope avoids your pernicious result.
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Enforced scope avoids the result in "form," but not "content." Content policy can't be enforced given the nature of pseudo- anonymity. This is sort of thing I think is basically inevitable — Bitcoin (or any other chain) hasn't really been tested in this way yet.
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... what I have in mind is very high profile, very malicious parties getting their hands on Bitcoin (via valid transactions) and doing very high profile, malicious things with it.
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But now you are talking about end user behavior, not the coding and ratification (upgrade) process. Completely different things.
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But the ratification process can say, reverse a transaction (if we loop hardforks under the ratification-process umbrella)
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The world has seen that this is a possibility, so we can't quite shrug our shoulders and claim immutability. (Yes, the big example we saw was with Eth, but it's certainly a *possibility* with Bitcoin as well)
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And yes, a big part of why BTC hasn't dealt with this sort of thing yet is due to the "argument surface minimisation" you referred to. But again, if adoption / integration increases, I claim that a "content-based-argument" is inevitable (I hope I'm wrong).
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