What do you mean they won't propose a 2m block? It has been proposed by a secret agreement. BTC now has a capacity increase identical to 2m.
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You also know that a block size increase is _only the first_ of a string of increase demands that will end up centralizing Bitcoin.
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Replying to @Beautyon_ @DollarJones
It's amazing to me that those who worry about centralization seem to have zero concern with one reference client. >50% of commits are 2 cos.
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Replying to @ErikVoorhees @seweso and
The worst that development centralization can do is protocol stagnation. Devs can't force users to run changes they don't want.
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Replying to @hugohanoi @ErikVoorhees and
Which means keeping existing consensus rules if devs' interests start to deviate from users's. That is a good thing.
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Replying to @hugohanoi @ErikVoorhees and
Transparent OSS process mitigates the problem of development centralization. It's hard to hide intent in code.
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Replying to @hugohanoi @ErikVoorhees and
So dev centralization worst case is protocol stagnation: network intact. Miner centralization worst case, otoh, reduces network security.
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Replying to @hugohanoi @ErikVoorhees and
Everything in Bitcoin involves trade-offs. Genius of Satoshi was to select the correct ones. Single implementation is another example.
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Replying to @hugohanoi @ErikVoorhees and
It increases the risk of dev centralization but the alternative is multiple clients which make consensus harder to achieve. Again, tradeoff.
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Replying to @hugohanoi @ErikVoorhees and
Everything considered there are risks to dev centralization but the benefits far outweigh the costs. Not true with aspects like mining.
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"Centralization" has many aspects, some more critical than others. Ppl tend to conflate all of them. Balaji's posthttps://news.21.co/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e …
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