Any commentary on the ETH hard fork which seems so dangerous a message that all vestiges of its routine success have been wiped from /r/bitcoin?
I think we need a sybil resistant method of validating node voting / opinion broadcasting to allow decisions network wide to be made known. Core will never build such a system into their client as they do not wish the network to choose a path which could deprive Blockstream of control of the active majority node client.
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This is one more proof how ridiculous the censorship is. When the DAO failed, r/bitcoin was full of posts about it. And I guess if the Hardfork failed it would also be.
In the last week there was a discussion about "censorship" on rbtc. It was claimed that hiding comments from people with a certain amount of downvotes is "censorship". This claims have been made aggressively by people that are very comfortable with censorship on rbitcon. The Eth-HF-affaire - and pokertravis / Nash - demonstrate two things: rbitcoin uses censorship to manipulate the crowd. r/btc uses moderation to express the oppinion of the crowd - and, secondly, to protect the crowd for people that don't deserve to be heard. If guys like pokertravis / nash or other low-brained small-blockist cry "censorship" because their posts are not seen, they show that they are unable to capture the difference between a radio moderator not playing unpopular songs and a radio moderator not playing songs that are popular but insult his religious / political feelings.They demonstrate a serious lack in political / ethical maturity.
During the ETH-Hardfork most nodes and miners didn't care anything. Not more than 10-20 percent cared enough to vote. miners are not driven by politics, ethos or ideology, they just want to earn money by mining. And that's ok, that is how the system should work. With bitcoin it would be the same: a handfull of nodes who think they need to stay on the old chain, because idealism and gregonomics so on, would stay on the old chain, while the huge majority, I guess 95-99 percent, would just follow the strongest chain.
If you look at Ethereum Classic or Peter Todds tweets I'm sure that Greg is not the only one of Bitcoin's Camp Small Blocks who participated in Ethereum Classic. Actually I think only Bitcoin Camp Small Blocks plus the Hacker are behind Ethereum Classic. They seem to be victim of ideological fallacy. "Hardfork can't work, they are evil, that's the reality, and if the reality does a hardfork, and it works and it is not evil, I do everything I can to make it not work and evil." This is that kind of religious zeal that is responsible for nearly every escalation of (material, rational) conflicts in history. I'm just not sure if in a crazy sense good money like Bitcoin needs this kind of religious zeal to be good money ...
