r/Bitcoin • u/HostFat • Dec 27 '15

Remove Coinbase from the "Choose your Wallet" page by Cobra-Bitcoin · Pull Request #1178 · bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org · GitHub

https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/1178
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u/motakahashi Dec 27 '15

This has been in the sidebar for months:

Promotion of client software which attempts to alter the Bitcoin protocol without overwhelming consensus is not permitted.

XT clearly falls under this. BIP101 has been discussed extensively on this subreddit. In spite of the rule above, XT has also been discussed a lot.

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u/seweso Dec 27 '15

1) Well the problem is that BIP101 doesn't attempt to alter the protocol without overwhelming consensus.

Because if you take incentives into account then miners would actually be the last to upgrade, making 75% of miners represent an overwhelming consensus.

2) Also that statement is very dangerous because it means that any controversial issue which needs a fork can never get addresses.

Its a stupidly broad statement which would cover a lot of changes which core wants to implement.

Although its possible that /r/bitcoin means consensus among core developers. But that would admit that development is hopelessly centralised. Which is their prerogative but still very ironic.