Total spin. Gavin proposed a "let-the-market-decide" solution to the question of whether to fork or not.
Such a move will only weaken Bitcoin's credibility in the eyes of the public.
I doubt that. The public (whoever that is) probably wouldn't even notice.
Big Business might actually be attracted by the pragmatic solutions the Bitcoin community can come up with when it comes to real-life problems like scalability. After all, they couldn't care less about the whole crypto-anarchist decentralized idealism. They just want that "blockchain technology stuff" to work.
So be prepared to get a lot of negative marketing from within the community itself, not just general public.
Possibly, but the community has already lost its power when it comes to whether Bitcoin will be a success or not.
VC is flowing, Big Business moving in.
it doesnt matter what fork gavin wants to manage.. all that counts is what fork mining pools work on..
Pools will want to make money. They're going to stick to whatever suits that goal best.
This is only minor centralization. Someone has to actually code things, it can't magically work and repair itself. The project is open source; anyone can contribute hence the decentralization.
Absolutely. Someone's got to take the less popular decisive steps at times. And I'd rather have that someone be Gavin than someone else.
After all, that whole idea of Gavin is still well within the limits of the traditional Bitcoin spirit, churn out some changes, let the network decide.