Only the charlatans are not brave/honest enough to come up with a proper name and instead leech on bitcoin's name notoriety.
Only the authoritarians are not brave/honest enough to live by the free market they
claim they espouse to. People calling themselves libertarians, but demanding protectionism in what's supposed to be an open and permissionless system, free from restrictions. I'm pretty left wing myself, you'd probably even call me "statist", but apparently even I have more stomach for an open market than you do, coward.
Free market: you can choose to use bitcoin... or whatver
alternative bitcoin client fork altcoin SHITCOIN.
FTFY. It's the choice of which client each user freely decides to use. The client with the most users determines the rules that govern the Bitcoin network. Free Market. No altcoins in sight.
FTFY FTW.
There is no problem with alternative client if they still abide by bitcoin's protocol. Lots of miners and nodes run in house bitcoind.
If you change unilaterally a parameter and break the consensus (eg. differs from 'majority', obviously and because there is A LOT of idiots, statists and sheeps).
Otherwise, it is about time you jump to bitcoin XT. Much alternative client.. pardon.. SHIT-VAPOR-COIN.
If it forks without consensus, then and only then does it break consensus and become an altcoin. If it sends and receives bitcoin transactions using bitcoin's blockchain, it is an alternative client. If enough users adopt a client with different rules governing the network, that becomes the new consensus. If you're truly a libertarian who believes in a free market, this should be acceptable to you. If you're a spineless authoritarian, you'll continue to demand protectionism for the present consensus because you can't stomach a free and open market where users are allowed to choose.
So far it is too late to implement various bitcoin implementations and 'hope' for consensus because network effect. Obviously not everybody will upgrade.
It will only split/harm the network and introduce attack vectors, having a direct impact over bitcoin's trust ie. value.
Adding some fancy adjective next to bitcoin to trap the noobs and reddit whatnots in some federal-centralized-corp-coin is outright lying.
Fascists.
So protectionism and a healthy dose of fear-mongering it is, then. You've clearly made your choice. No one is ever allowed to disagree because you think it's too late and everything should be set in stone forever. If you genuinely believed in a free market, you wouldn't be so afraid of the possibility of it changing.
Kindly hand in your libertarian credentials at the front desk, protectionist.
I'm afraid you noobs and authority cravers handle bitcoin to USG and corporations for the Big Brother Finale. (FASCIST!
)
Bitcoin is about freedom, but freedom is not about democracy.
It is about the individual (as in the individual must be able to mine, run a full node, access the blockchain and cryptographic signatures by himself).
Not the illusion of the greater number of stupid 'marketed' sheeple precipitating the rest into the abyss.
Bitcoin consensus mechanism fights exactly this by preventing social/populist coup over its protocol.
You are stupid if you think any fork attempt will be successful as the previous ones lamely failed and with not even as much people involved as of now.
Bitcoin's protocol is not some incorporated IOS that has to be upgraded every two weeks
tm.
