FWIW, if there are any developers interested in keeping Counterparty going once multisig abuse filters are in place, there is no reason the recommended plan cannot work with a fork of Counterparty instead of the original developers.
Rather than making thinly veiled threats, perhaps you can respond to the relevant points that have been brought up.
Irrelevant agenda-serving, more like...
And responding to these doesn't really bring anything forward.
Since the existing Counterparty developer(s?) outright refuse to move forward, the only other practical option for Counterparty is someone else doing it.
He knows what he's saying here is wrong.
Satoshi himself added the IsStandard restriction concept.
I have long since been opposed to using such restrictions when unnecessary: notice how Eligius is the only pool which allows non-standard transactions, and it has allowed them since nearly when I started it.
The problem here, why whitelisting is needed for mining on Eligius, is because of Counterparty's unique position (I am ignoring Mastercoin in this thread) where it is currently indistinguishable from spam, which needs to be blacklisted due to abuse.
Every other miner and relay node would require whitelisting no matter how it's done (other than abusing multisig, which will soon not work either).
It is true that
forcing miners to provide you with security will result in better security than giving them a choice, because it is inevitable that some miners will opt not to provide the service.
And yes, it is also true that blockchain-based decentralised systems are always at risk of 51% attacks by design.
However, it is pure FUD to try to scare everyone away from doing the right thing by implying it is a given they will be attacked.
If you're providing a service with your altchain, it's in miners' interest to support you, not attack you, unless you are doing something harmful.
Sure, there will perhaps always be exceptions, but as long as you have a majority of miners assisting you, you'll be fine.
This is also part of why Eligius goes out of the way to support legitimate altchains which support merged mining, even if they aren't necessarily useful to the pool (for example, we helped ChronoKings/HunterCoin test their blockchain-based game).
It doesn't solve anything, since fees don't cover transaction costs.
