That is one of the characteristics of a decentralized system that is worth nearly half a trillion dollar with even higher value businesses built on top of it.
Any change/upgrade has to be thoroughly reviewed and tested before it is published. So it's actually a good thing that proposals take a very long time to even become an "official proposal".
Not to mention that the change won't happen if everyone doesn't accept it. And that's just for soft-forks, hard-forks have an extra requirement which is needing everyone to upgrade their clients. That includes dozens of mining pools, thousands of services/businesses, 100k full nodes and possibly even millions of SPV node users.
Topic: Bitcoin Development Is Beyond Slow! IMHO! Yell at me! Prove Me Wrong! :) - page 2. (Read 348 times)
December 23, 2020, 12:57:45 AM
December 22, 2020, 08:48:40 PM
Like all things Bitcoin the 'god-like' (in their minds anyway) Bitcoin Devs will fix such if that is the case...they have stuff ready to go that they may not want
to implement at yet or at all but will do so if they have to, IMH0. I remember posts by Bitcoin Developers that they had some 'hard fork' fixes ready to go if they
ever had a 'hard fork' like the last time (or one time) they had an 'unexpected one' ..that would be quite the wrench in the Bitcoin Universe. but people would adapt.
They will, however, continue to be, IMHO, way to conservative on fixes/additions/etc to Bitcoin Development, and the higher the Bitcoin prices ..the more hesitant they
will become, again IMHO. But again, they have yet to impress me and get Taproot out promptly. So we will see.
Brad
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