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In today’s edition of…  Everything begins to make sense:



The Core Repository has condemned the notion of separation of Repository and Protocol as heresy, and therefore
I know it to be evil and an abuse of power. The Protocol that disregards the Repository's authority is no better than the
average tx spammer who disregards the Protocol's authority as well. Error has no rights, and while there are circumstances
which may justify the Protocol's tolerance of false clients, in no case is it ever appropriate to defend their practice, or worse,
to treat them as equals with the True Client.

Miners are not Dev, and miners' rights are only ever derived from our obligations to Dev's projects and business. There is no
natural right to research, install, or run false clients; or to worship false protocols: those things are all wrong, and wrongs
can never be rights. The notion of miner rights independent from Dev, is nothing short of worship of miner (PoWism).

I do not however support theymocracy except in the special case of Consensus Code (in order to guarantee the Dev's independence
from foreign Miner authorities). The Devs should focus on technical affairs, while the Miner independently focuses on wiring
and cooling affairs. Not only is this more efficient, but it reduces the risk and harm of corruption, as well as reducing the burden
of responsibility placed on miners "hashing as a service" providers.

History has shown monarchy to be one of the most successful forms of government, and there seems to be reasonable
explanations why this is so.
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Let's see how this one plays out, shall we?

What's to play out, as far as you and I are concerned? If we're correct, nothing will come of this. If we're wrong, we're both wrong.
There's absolutely no need to view everyone as either your ally or your enemy, no need to view everyone as someone to toady up to or fight to the death.
This adversarial stance of yours plays right into the divide et impera maxim you paranoiacs attribute to Teh Man -- bitcoiners battle each other to the amusement of one and all, rendering circuses if not bread.
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Terminated.
Thanks for humbling me and correcting my link, Lauda. Your unmatched linking skills are unmatched, that's why you make big money.
It took me a few years to become such an expert, but it was worth it!

That said, have you bothered reading before replying? Particularly this part: "Not sure re. credibility (probably more posturing), but this is what it would look like if[...]"?
Yes, I've read that. The reason that I've stated that it is a failed FUD post "at r/btc" is simply because the "people" there are talking about this like it was either signed by the big pools or already in effect.

Much like yourself, I do not find the linked material to be a credible threat.
It is not a credible threat of any kind at the moment. It seems more in the lines of a manipulative attempt at trolling. Let's see how this one plays out, shall we?
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Bump.
Not sure re. credibility (probably more posturing), but this is what it would look like if the chickens come home to roost (to the luxurious Chinese chicken coops bitcoin data centers):
Yet another failed FUD post on r/btc (they're talking about it like this is actually happening). You also don't even know how to properly attach URLs. Anyhow, that post is just a proposal (or extension?) made by a random nobody on that Chinese website. There is no sign of any big pools being behind this. How about we wait for some actual 'people' to voice their opinions before we jump to conclusions on this one?
Here's the proper link from r/Bitcoin.

Thanks for humbling me and correcting my link, Lauda. Your unmatched linking skills are unmatched, that's why you make big money.
That said, have you bothered reading before replying? Particularly this part: "Not sure re. credibility (probably more posturing), but this is what it would look like if[...]"?
Much like yourself, I do not find the linked material to be a credible threat.
Let's hope we're both right Smiley
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Bump.
Not sure re. credibility (probably more posturing), but this is what it would look like if the chickens come home to roost (to the luxurious Chinese chicken coops bitcoin data centers):
Yet another failed FUD post on r/btc (they're talking about it like this is actually happening). You also don't even know how to properly attach URLs. Anyhow, that post is just a proposal (or extension?) made by a random nobody on that Chinese website. There is no sign of any big pools being behind this. How about we wait for some actual 'people' to voice their opinions before we jump to conclusions on this one?
Here's the proper link from r/Bitcoin.
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Bump.
Not sure re. credibility (probably more posturing), but this is what it would look like if the chickens come home to roost (to the luxurious Chinese chicken coops bitcoin data centers):

Wow, Chinese Miners Revolt and Announce Terminator Plan to Hard Fork to 2M, Big Fuck to Core (cross-post)
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I never said Gentleman's agreement is a good idea.
In fact, it sucks. But then the miner's would have never gotten their agreement.
Personally, no one should have signed anything or made any promises.
No matter what happened, there will be someone upset about something.

So what is it you want? Remedy?

So what you're telling me is that if not for the farce "gentleman's agreement," the miners would've got nothing, which is exactly what they got now?

No, of course no one should have signed anything, no one should have made any promises, no one should have lied and no one should have dicked around with an auto-tune.

But they did, because it served their ends. Or they thought it did. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't'cha know that? And here you are, and it's a beautiful day. Well. I just don't understand it.

@groll, sounds good. Anything specific you'd like to contribute?
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https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4q3ztw/a_call_for_core_developers_to_clarify_their/d4q6ryh?context=3
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[–]luke-jrLuke Dashjr - Bitcoin Expert 2 points 17 hours ago

HaoBTC, in the future, if you have concerns or questions that need clarification and/or answering, please just ask, rather than posting on a blog that we probably don't read and might not even notice...

Things that we tried to make clear both at the meeting itself, as well as afterward on social media:

    Core contributors present and party to the agreement were not acting as representatives of the Core dev team, (This was made VERY clear.)
    There was no hardfork promised (not even all the Core dev team has authority to do that), only code that could be recommended for one. (This also was made VERY clear.)
    The hardfork proposal promised was not a "2 MB hardfork", but a hardfork that would include as one minor change, the ability to include up to 2 MB of current witness-included-in-txid (anyone-can-malleate) transactions.
    Miners have no leverage to make demands. If they attempt to hardfork without community consensus, they harm only themselves, while Bitcoin moves on without them. (At least for my part, my goal of the agreement was to end division and argumentation, which did not happen, admittedly not because of the fault of many of the agreement participants.)
    The July 2016 estimate was not part of the agreement, and certainly not a deadline. It was (at the time) a reasonable expectation based on the agreement terms.
    Speaking only for myself, I made the promise with sincerity, and intend to uphold it best I can (despite the almost immediate violation by one of the parties).

Admittedly, both at the meeting and now, I consider the "SegWit delayed until HF is released in Core" position some miners took to be unviable, and that miners will be pressured to deploy it much sooner by the community. After all, not deploying segwit literally means they are preventing the block size increase. However, I understand the agreement places no such obligation on them.

Since the agreement was made:

    SegWit has still not yet been included in a release. Thus the three months deadline has not even begun "counting" yet. (I still aspire to have something by the end of July if possible, but I consider this to be above and beyond the agreed-on terms.)
    Discussions have revealed that the goal of expanding space for anyone-can-malleate transactions loses the necessary performance improvements included with SegWit to make larger blocks safer, thus cannot safely be done without ugly hacks to introduce new limits similar to BIP 109 which might become a nuisance to Bitcoin both today and in the future. This isn't a show-stopper to writing code, but it may make it difficult to come up with something that unbiased parties can recommend.
    Many third parties have expressed that they will under no conditions consent to a hardfork that comes out of this or any other political agreement. This won't block code nor recommentation, but it does guarantee such a proposal cannot be adopted.
    Some developer(s) have expressed concerns that doing a hardfork safely ("soft hardfork") is somehow "unethical" to them, and doing it unsafely will require even greater efforts on ensuring consensus is reached not only from the community, but also that there are no nodes accidentally left behind. This isn't a blocker, but it probably makes deployment much harder.

Why is there so much fuss about mining bitcoins. Many debates are occuring about cores, production, maintenance etc. Why not let us all  work together for the future of bitcoins. all of us have already benefitted from bitcoins so we must also make some step to maintain it. Disagreement with each other does not increase the bitcoin supply. I bitcoin experts will unite to solve the problem right now then it will be helpful.
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but on whether someone's character or credibility is worthy of entering into. Do you trust them to hold their word?
Then it is like a Gentleman's Agreement.
I dunno, 10 billion bucks buys a lot of character and credibility.
Do I trust a bunch of mercenary, money-loving gentlemen from the other side of this planet with 10 billion dollars? Lessee... Lemme look, let me look at them again...



Nope, no I would not. Call me crazy.

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But basically you are saying that everyone who signed the agreement, who does no coding to Bitcoin
Core, are either insane or stupid as well. A lot of different entities "OK'd" and signed that agreement.
Not at all. I was not party to the negotiations, and can only guess re. the motivation and intent of the resultant "agreement." Placating you bit-villagers was suggested. You had pitchforks & the moat's been run dry, so sounds perfectly reasonable Undecided
I don't know what that even means.
The miners asked for a meeting and forced that agreement, was my understanding.
That means that the "agreement" kkept you hodling and buying, which served rational self-interests of the miners, the exchange owners, and the core developers.
Which is to say everyone's but yours.
If you got any more questions, you just go ahead and ask.

P.S. re. "When an individual signs a document with another individual(s)":
When an individual shakes hands with another individual, it's a gentlemen's agreement, expectations, etc., etc.
When an individual shakes hands with another individual(s) on camera and issues multiple press releases, it's probably something else.


I never said Gentleman's agreement is a good idea.
In fact, it sucks. But then the miner's would have never gotten their agreement.
Personally, no one should have signed anything or made any promises.
No matter what happened, there will be someone upset about something.

So what is it you want? Remedy?
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but on whether someone's character or credibility is worthy of entering into. Do you trust them to hold their word?
Then it is like a Gentleman's Agreement.
I dunno, 10 billion bucks buys a lot of character and credibility.
Do I trust a bunch of mercenary, money-loving gentlemen from the other side of this planet with 10 billion dollars? Lessee... Lemme look, let me look at them again...
https://s32.postimg.org/ye6owppk5/waifu.jpg
https://s32.postimg.org/renjc4trp/bitches.jpg

Nope, no I would not. Call me crazy.

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But basically you are saying that everyone who signed the agreement, who does no coding to Bitcoin
Core, are either insane or stupid as well. A lot of different entities "OK'd" and signed that agreement.
Not at all. I was not party to the negotiations, and can only guess re. the motivation and intent of the resultant "agreement." Placating you bit-villagers was suggested. You had pitchforks & the moat's been run dry, so sounds perfectly reasonable Undecided
I don't know what that even means.
The miners asked for a meeting and forced that agreement, was my understanding.
That means that the "agreement" kkept you hodling and buying, which served rational self-interests of the miners, the exchange owners, and the core developers.
Which is to say everyone's but yours.
If you got any more questions, you just go ahead and ask.

P.S. re. "When an individual signs a document with another individual(s)":
When an individual shakes hands with another individual, it's a gentlemen's agreement, expectations, etc., etc.
When an individual shakes hands with another individual(s) on camera and issues multiple press releases, it's probably something else.
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2 pages of chatter waffled down to this summary opinion

1. miners were peed off with the push and pull arguments on github/mailinglist and so wanted to come face to face with the main people who can actually do something.
2. they did no invite random coders who just edited a couple words of the user guide, or the local sushi chef. they invited the main people who can actually do something.
3. the main people who can actually do something turned up. luke JR sat right next to adam back and others and they showed their opinions were united.
4. they did not sign the document "independent coder" they signed it "core contributor" emphasizing that their actions were to involve core
5. the commit access and control of the core github is not spread out evenly with hundreds of github users. but just select few(reference point 1 and 2)

but the "core contributors" are trying to pretend the agreement would be more effective if the chinese miners just asked their local sushi chefs to turn up and sign a document because luke, adam and the rest are pretending they are only as useful to core as a sushi chef.(basically saying they cant do it)

however we all know their abilities, their access privileges and their roles. so its obvious they can do it.. but simply wont.

now everyone should be up to date.

what to expect next.
Luke Jr SHOULD atleast release some code on his own personal repo(that way he cant blame core vetoing it). just to say he as an independent mind did forfill his independent obligations to produce code.
but then we will see the usual blockstream fanboys say that lukeJr's code release is just another altcoin and how lukeJr should be thrown to the wolves, just like any other dev that ended up releasing code on separate repos due to blockstream vetoing the changes.

but remember this folks. if a implementation links to bitcoins genesis block, stores, validates and relays bitcoins 7 year blockdata. its not an altcoin. so dont be fooled by the blockstream fanboys trying to scare people away with fake "altcoin doomsday" moments
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A gentleman's agreement is enforceable by character and credibility.

What does that mean? Explain the mechanics of this "enforcement."
Wikip has this to say about gentleman's agreements:
"A gentlemen's agreement or gentleman's agreement is an informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties. [...] It is, therefore, distinct from a legal agreement or contract, which can be enforced if necessary."

When an individual signs a document with another individual(s),
that lays out terms and expectations as to how things will proceed,
but are not specific or defined enough so as to be a strict legally contract
within a specific jurisdiction and with no guarantee made as to final outcome,
that simple document is comparable to a handshake with a promise to perform.

That document is not based on legal remedy, but on whether someone's character
or credibility is worthy of entering into. Do you trust them to hold their word?
Then it is like a Gentleman's Agreement.

The enforcement mechanism of this type of agreement is that if one of the parties does
not follow up on what they have signed off on, then that person has lost credibility within
the community and anything they say should be taken as garbage. Also, they should not
be trusted with any other future agreements or such. The only remedy to this type of
agreement is a social one, and not legal.

A true gentleman will always keep his word, otherwise he is worth nothing.


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But basically you are saying that everyone who signed the agreement, who does no coding to Bitcoin
Core, are either insane or stupid as well. A lot of different entities "OK'd" and signed that agreement.
Not at all. I was not party to the negotiations, and can only guess re. the motivation and intent of the resultant "agreement." Placating you bit-villagers was suggested. You had pitchforks & the moat's been run dry, so sounds perfectly reasonable Undecided

I don't know what that even means.
The miners asked for a meeting and forced that agreement. That was my understanding.
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A gentleman's agreement is enforceable by character and credibility.

What does that mean? Explain the mechanics of this "enforcement."
Wikip has this to say about gentleman's agreements:
"A gentlemen's agreement or gentleman's agreement is an informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties. [...] It is, therefore, distinct from a legal agreement or contract, which can be enforced if necessary."

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But basically you are saying that everyone who signed the agreement, who does no coding to Bitcoin
Core, are either insane or stupid as well. A lot of different entities "OK'd" and signed that agreement.
Not at all. I was not party to the negotiations, and can only guess re. the motivation and intent of the resultant "agreement." Placating you bit-villagers was suggested. You had pitchforks & the moat's been run dry, so sounds perfectly reasonable Undecided
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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.
A gentleman's agreement is, by definition, unenforceable. Thus your attempt to "argu[e] contract law" is as appropriate here as applying tort law is to poetry, which is to say stop.

Gentlemen (here I'm trying for the most liberal, widest possible meaning of the word) enter into ventures involving large sums of money (and by large, I mean humongous, ginormous suns - billions of nearly-anonymous borderless moneys that fit on a usb stick), the interested parties may forgo entering into an IRL, enforceable and legally-binding agreements for a multitude of reasons, but barring nefarious intent and deceit, we're left with only two: Insanity and Stupidity.
Core devs aren't stupid, most of them are reasonably sane.

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Ultimately, it is not a great legal contract.
Depends on what you meant it to do.
And to whom.

A gentleman's agreement is enforceable by character and credibility.

If you are saying that the document signed is not an enforceable legal document, I agree mostly.
But I will still apply contract terminology and meaning behind the terms and phrases used.
Because an agreement may not be legally enforceable does not mean it can not be read as such.

Sometimes, Courts will remove sections of contracts that are unenforceable, but leave the rest intact
to make the remaining enforceable. So your example is not correct as agreements should not be
read a children's fairtales, but with contracting termonolgy. The question here is whether the document
was intended to be legally binding. I wasn't there, I don't know. The way that it is written is a promise to perform.

But basically you are saying that everyone who signed the agreement, who does no coding to Bitcoin
Core, are either insane or stupid as well. A lot of different entities "OK'd" and signed that agreement.




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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.
A gentleman's agreement is, by definition, unenforceable. Thus your attempt to "argu[e] contract law" is as appropriate here as applying tort law is to poetry, which is to say stop.

Gentlemen (here I'm trying for the most liberal, widest possible meaning of the word) negotiating a venture involving large sums of money (and by large, I mean humongous, ginormous sums - billions of nearly-anonymous borderless moneys that fit onto a usb stick) may forgo entering into an IRL, enforceable and legally-binding agreements for a whole mess'o reasons, but barring nefarious intent and deceit, we're left with only two: Insanity and Stupidity.
Core devs aren't stupid, most of them are reasonably sane.

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Ultimately, it is not a great legal contract.
Depends on what you meant it to do.
And to whom.
legendary
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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.
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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.

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.
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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.
legendary
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If you are adamant in your belief and opinion, all you have to do is two things:

1. Take the terms of the signed agreement.
2. Place those terms next to the lies that were committed.
Look at the topic of this thread.
Luke Jr. is not arguing against specific points of that "agreement," he isn't saying that all contractual obligations are being met, per signed "agreement."
He's saying that the signatories were not representatives of the core team, making said "agreement" null and void. That the entity known as core (henceforth EKAC) is not obligated to comply with the terms of that "agreement," because Why is this so difficult to get across?

If I pretended to be the King of Siam, and, in that capacity, signed a lengthy international treaty on the behalf of Thailand, what difference is it which terms of that treaty Thailand is/is not adhering to?

EKAC (sorry, temporally-bound virtual entity manifesting itself in cryptospace as Luke [dash] Jr., who is not EKAC) claim(s) that the whole thing is junk. Because the carbon-based sovereign individual(s) extant at the spacetime coordinates of signing (which is to say collapsing the probability field so as to make marks appear in one of the infinitely manifold realities), were not granted said authority by the nebulous entity known as core, which, by definition, is apunctual and exists outside spacetime, in constant flux.

I hope this is clear.

If you read the agreement signed, it says within the paragraphs that the Bitcoin contributors
signing are separate individuals not empowered to confirm finalization. It clearly states that the
Core community has the final say. A handful of Core Contributors is not the Core Community.

What documents or other material do you have that shows that LukeJr and others willfully participated
in such talks with claims that they control Bitcoin, yet reneging later to just claim as an individual?.

They made no claims of controlling Bitcoin, nor is such a claim being put forward by me now.

What they did willfully do is mislead the miners, the press, and the entire fucking bitcoin community into believing that a meaningful agreement has been reached, knowing full well that the worthless assemblage of bullshit was fucking worthless. As I have pointed out as you celebrated that momentous event, and got laughed at. Lol. Smiley

The agreement terms is the agreement. There is nothing more.
Seems the media mislead everyone, since they added and subtracted to the agreed terms within their articles.

If the miners were not happy with the terms at the time, they could have walked away and said, "no deal".
Instead, all signatories managed to agree to what they themselves could agree to.

Whether the agreement is a good one or not is not relevant.
The issue is whether people are breaching their agreed duties.
I believe (without full knowledge) that no breach could have occurred from the Core signatories since
the 2MB HF terms agreed to only activate when SegWit is released.

Again, I'm not discussing the terms of the agreement here, that's an entirely different can of worms.
You are claiming that the bitcoin press, r/bitcoin, this forum - in short, the entire bitcoin community - misinterpreted that agreement.
At the time, I pointed out that the agreement, just like all non-binding, no-violent and otherwise totally worthless & unenforceable agreements, is worthless.
Got laughed at. And I believe (not 100%% sure) Lauda added some grease to the fire with one of his de facto standards: "ignore him, he's just trying to stir up shit."

And not a single core developer bothered to correct that misunderstanding and right that grievous wrong. Not one of them chimed in with "Guys, he's totally right on the money, there's absolutely no substance here, just feelgood fluff to placate you bit-villagers.
He's totally right, and you're all wrong, lol."

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.
newbie
Activity: 14
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If you are adamant in your belief and opinion, all you have to do is two things:

1. Take the terms of the signed agreement.
2. Place those terms next to the lies that were committed.
Look at the topic of this thread.
Luke Jr. is not arguing against specific points of that "agreement," he isn't saying that all contractual obligations are being met, per signed "agreement."
He's saying that the signatories were not representatives of the core team, making said "agreement" null and void. That the entity known as core (henceforth EKAC) is not obligated to comply with the terms of that "agreement," because Why is this so difficult to get across?

If I pretended to be the King of Siam, and, in that capacity, signed a lengthy international treaty on the behalf of Thailand, what difference is it which terms of that treaty Thailand is/is not adhering to?

EKAC (sorry, temporally-bound virtual entity manifesting itself in cryptospace as Luke [dash] Jr., who is not EKAC) claim(s) that the whole thing is junk. Because the carbon-based sovereign individual(s) extant at the spacetime coordinates of signing (which is to say collapsing the probability field so as to make marks appear in one of the infinitely manifold realities), were not granted said authority by the nebulous entity known as core, which, by definition, is apunctual and exists outside spacetime, in constant flux.

I hope this is clear.

If you read the agreement signed, it says within the paragraphs that the Bitcoin contributors
signing are separate individuals not empowered to confirm finalization. It clearly states that the
Core community has the final say. A handful of Core Contributors is not the Core Community.

What documents or other material do you have that shows that LukeJr and others willfully participated
in such talks with claims that they control Bitcoin, yet reneging later to just claim as an individual?.

They made no claims of controlling Bitcoin, nor is such a claim being put forward by me now.

What they did willfully do is mislead the miners, the press, and the entire fucking bitcoin community into believing that a meaningful agreement has been reached, knowing full well that the worthless assemblage of bullshit was fucking worthless. As I have pointed out as you celebrated that momentous event, and got laughed at. Lol. Smiley

The agreement terms is the agreement. There is nothing more.
Seems the media mislead everyone, since they added and subtracted to the agreed terms within their articles.

If the miners were not happy with the terms at the time, they could have walked away and said, "no deal".
Instead, all signatories managed to agree to what they themselves could agree to.

Whether the agreement is a good one or not is not relevant.
The issue is whether people are breaching their agreed duties.
I believe (without full knowledge) that no breach could have occurred from the Core signatories since
the 2MB HF terms agreed to only activate when SegWit is released.

Again, I'm not discussing the terms of the agreement here, that's an entirely different can of worms.
You are claiming that the bitcoin press, r/bitcoin, this forum - in short, the entire bitcoin community - misinterpreted that agreement.
At the time, I pointed out that the agreement, just like all non-binding, no-violent and otherwise totally worthless & unenforceable agreements, is worthless.
Got laughed at. And I believe (not 100%% sure) Lauda added some grease to the fire with one of his de facto standards: "ignore him, he's just trying to stir up shit."

And not a single core developer bothered to correct that misunderstanding and right that grievous wrong. Not one of them chimed in with "Guys, he's totally right on the money, there's absolutely no substance here, just feelgood fluff to placate you bit-villagers.
He's totally right, and you're all wrong, lol."
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