We are all witnesses to one miracle..
DECENTRALIZATION
On its deathbed.
The path of the most revolutionary decentralized currency will be decided on Aug 1st.
By who?
By the people "in charge".
This is the miracle of miracles. The moment when something which was supposed to be under no authority that can't be controlled by the government by the banks by the aliens..is finally controlled by somebody. And the results are for everyone to see !!!!!
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I disagree with the prophet.
There is no decision that will be made here, there is no "in charge".
Majority of actions that are to come, are all attacks on the Bitcoin system.
Bitcoin may have reached the point that Satoshi prophesied would come.
What has transpired was a Kobayashi Maru all along.
Then Theymos is trolling his own forum as this is from the little announce on top:
The large Bitcoin miner Bitmain announced that they might engage in a (nonsensically-named) "user activated hardfork" ("UAHF") shortly after BIP148 activates if BIP148 has any success. This would definitely cause an additional split, resulting in up to three currencies: BIP148-Bitcoin, Bitmain-coin, and (depending on the degree of BIP148's success) status-quo-Bitcoin. As mentioned previously, if you have x BTC before the split, you'll be technically able to claim x of all three of these currencies after the split.
I'm asking you this, who the fuck decided that this shit should be implemented on August 1.
I vote for it to be on August 2nd.
Oh my vote doesn't count. Yours neither. There is no voting.
Wtf?
Theymos has a right to his own opinion and has a certain responsibility to notify the
community as to what certain future Bitcoin actions may or may not bring about.
Whether those actions manifest or not, or whether Theymos has a personal choice
of one of the many possibilities, is ultimately irrelevant.
The BIP 148 was determined by its author and creator to be enforced on August 1st.
That is who decided it should be implemented then. It is now the responsibility of
users to run that client if they wish to force the miners to implement SegWit. If the
miners chose to resist that action, they will perform their own action which Theymos
is referring to. Thus, there are many actions that are or could occur that all violate
Community Consensus. (Update clarification: BIP 148 only manifested as a reaction
to miners forcing blocksize increase onto the users by using the HK Agreement with
individual handful of devs as their rational, which was never agreed to by the
users or High Community Consensus. This has only started because some internal
entities wanted the right to steer the future, when they had no right or authority to
do so.)
If you wish to have UASF activate and enforce on August 2nd, then you can create
your own client and advise the community that they should use yours, over the
Aug 1st vr. It will be impossible now to organize that, but it is your right to attempt.
Voting is an illusion in Bitcoin and never existed.
The truth is High Community Consensus or nothing.
Sometimes Nothing is the correct answer in this type of system we all participate.
If you disagree, and an action MUST be performed, it is almost always an attack type.
Edit: added update clarification
