Topic: Control the Flow, Control the Power - page 2. (Read 971 times)

I took a class in macro economics freshmen year, but that's completely beside the point.

Cool.  Do you know ANYTHING about economics, and have you ever read a book on economics?

Calculus, complex analysis (e^i*pi = -1; lamba function, etc.) - but I'm not going to prove myself to you, what you are doing here is distracting from the point and I won't play that game.

Like I said, the blockchain doesn't care how smart I am.

Anyone could use bitcoin to send and receive payments. Blockstream is trying to take that from us and we must not let them.

Cool.  Give us an example of the type of math you are familiar with.

They could increase the block size without giving up SegWit - but they didn't, and I suspect the reason they didn't is because they knew people wouldn't use SegWit if there was room in the blockchain for transactions without SegWit. They wouldn't gain any power.

BA in Math, you might not want to go there.

But how smart or dumb I am never mattered to the blockchain before.

This.  Op is a moron and a child.

Do you think that when we fire Core developers situation will suddenly stabilize and we will have miraculous consensus ready?
Core devs are probably the most knowledgeable people, most of them worked on the bitcoin from the beginning and understand it like no other dev.
Maybe Satoshi's vision is something we can't have, similar to why we can't have pure working communism?

Could they increase the block size for normal transactions without losses for one or another part?
Something must be done to solve the transactions issues, and I think SegWit won't be aprooved. Worse than something happen is if nothing happen...

You don't have a clue what you are talking about though.  Let's talk about economics and see how smart you are.  Or math.  Or any subject, and lets see how smart you are. 

One of the things that attracted me to bitcoin - with credit cards, the flow of money belongs to the the wealthy and that gave them power.

With bitcoin, the flow of value was returned to the people.

I didn't have to meet the rules of a bank to open a merchant account. I didn't have to keep meeting the rules of the bank or worry about my account being closed. I didn't have to keep giving a piece of every sale to a bank. A financial institution no longer controlled the flow of money.

Now what I see happening with bitcoin, a group of people (blockstream) is trying to take over the flow of value. They are doing this by keeping the block too small for normal transactions to succeed without their SegWit solution that they control, good luck running your own SegWit solution if you are not wealthy, so people like you and me will be forced to use their off-chain accounting that they control in order to use Bitcoin.

The vision of Satoshi returned power over the flow of value back to the people where it belongs. Ordinary people, extraordinary people. Rich people, poor people. Dumb people, smart people. Conservative, liberal, socialist, libertarian. The blockchain didn't give a sh*t who we were. That is changing and Satoshi's vision is being raped.

This is not something we can let happen. We have the power to prevent, we have the power to fire core. We more than have the power, we have the responsibility to fire core.