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There is no actual misunderstanding.
The truth is, that those individual core contributors agreed to an
agreement where they will personally code a 2MB HF and lobby that code, to the Bitcoin community,
for it's consideration of adding it into Bitcoin Core, and in return, the miners and other signatories
agree to implement SegWit and etc.
Lol no. No individual has agreed to do anything.
Allow me to adhere to your rigidly literalist reading, and quote an excerpt of said legal document:
"Based on the above points, the timeline will likely follow the below dates.
-SegWit is expected to be released in April 2016.
- The code for the hard-fork will therefore be available by July 2016.
-If there is strong community support, the hard-fork activation will likely happen around July 2017."You were saying something about arguing contract law? I take it you've seen wording like this in actual IRL contracts?
There's literally nothing loosely resembling anything enforceable here, SegWit was not
promised, it was "
expected to be released in April 2016."
So ya, nothing promised.
"The code for the hard-fork
will therefore be available by July 2016," so if no SegWit, no code. "Available" is also left wide-open to interpretation, what does that even mean? Ditto for
strong community support. But even if we agree that there is, in fact,
strong community support, "hard-fork activation
will likely happen around July 2017."
of course, everything mentioned everything mentioned "
will likely follow the below dates."
Go, Dog. Go! reads more like a contract to me.
And I refuse to believe that our Best and Brightest came up with that drivel because clueless about contracts.
All parties that signed the agreement are bound to the agreement terms.
I never said this document was a sound strong legal document, just that it is an agreement.
If you interpret such an agreement, you would use contract law, but for this to be enforced in
a court of law, it would be hard since this is a basic gentleman's agreement that if x happens
by estimated y, then I promise to do z.
There are many other terms and paragraphs missing from this document to be a sound legal contract.
For example, which jurisdiction's laws will be applied to this agreement? That is not defined.
What about disputes in termonology, is there a mechanism for arbitration? That is not defined.
What if SegWit is "late" by one or two months? Is that a violation? That is not defined.
Ultimately, it is not a great legal contract, but no one said that it was.
It is still binding and enforceable as to the signers and should be applied toward their character
as part of the Bitcoin community. That is all. All parties signed to the terms that exist.
If the terms are crap and full of crap, then no one should have signed the crap and everyone
should have walked away not reaching an agreement.
Edit: I would like to clarify, that when i speak of enforceability, I'm referring to the strict following
of the terms upon the individuals as agreed, and I am not referring to the legal enforceability of this
agreement/contract within a Court of Law. Enforceability within a Court of Law would be difficult for this matter
since the terms are very loose and non-committal. A Judge would most likely throw out such as case due to the
fact that no real damage or breach occurred and any alleged damage could not be quantified.There is no actual misunderstanding.
The truth is, that those individual core contributors agreed to an
agreement where they will personally code a 2MB HF and lobby that code, to the Bitcoin community,
for it's consideration of adding it into Bitcoin Core, and in return, the miners and other signatories
agree to implement SegWit and etc.
Who should come forward and declare that the agreement, that individuals came to on their own accord,
is worthless and non-enforceable to those parties? If parties to the agreement do not uphold their part,
then their word and signature is garbage and should not be trusted in the future.
I expected luke-jr and Blockstream members to lobby for the 2MB HF, thats what the HK agreement basically said - a compromise. But this did not happened - quite the opposite based on gmaxwell and luke-jr anti HF talk. What it means to me is luke-jr and Blockstream lost trust in my eyes and they damaged core reputation as well because they are part of core team. Im surprised miners still respect the agreement when Adam Back as CEO failed to deliver support from all Blockstream members, and luke-jr talk in these lines: "I will deliver some HF code, but its pointless". So Chinese F2pool, luke-jr and and Adam Back failed to deliver the promise and ruined their reputation with this - but time to move on and do not trust these three anymore.
Your statement is all over the place.
1. Yes, it is a compromise.
2. No lobbing for 2mb HF should have already occurred. That starts now.
3. Gmaxwell is not party to this agreement/compromise.
4. Miners respect the agreement since nothing has occurred that contradicts the terms.
5. Lukejr can think the 2mb code is pointless, he didn't agree to a guaranteed adoption.
6. Lukejr and Adam Back agreement terms have not taken effect yet.