<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" target="_blank">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I personally *don't* think he's doing that, rather I believe he knows<br>
full well it's a bad patch and is proposing it because he wants to push<br>
discussion towards a solution. Often trolling the a audience with bad<br>
patches is an effective way to motivate people to respond by writing<br>
better ones; Jeff has told me he often does exactly that.<br>
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I think in this case we shouldn't do anything, so short-circuiting that<br>
process by pointing out what he's doing publicly makes sense.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Assuming that's what Jeff is doing, how does preventing better solutions from emerging 'make sense'?<br></div></div></div></div>