<div dir="ltr">I haven&#39;t seen this excellent recent blog post by Eli Dourado referenced here:<div>  <a href="https://readplaintext.com/how-should-bitcoin-be-governed-680192fcd92b">https://readplaintext.com/how-should-bitcoin-be-governed-680192fcd92b</a></div><div><br></div><div>I agree with his conclusions: we need better communication/organization mechanisms among &#39;stakeholders&#39; and between the various factions (developers, miners, merchants, exchanges, end-users).</div><div><br></div><div>And the preliminary results of using a prediction market to try to wrestle with the tough tradeoffs looks roughly correct to me, too:</div><div>   <a href="https://blocksizedebate.com/">https://blocksizedebate.com/</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>(my only big disagreement with those predictions is the &#39;Number of nodes&#39; -- I don&#39;t think replace-by-fee would affect that number, and I think even with no change we will see the number of full nodes on the network drop to a couple thousand, because the general-purpose-home-PC is headed the way of the dodo: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/pc-sales-plummet-in-q2-2015-gartner-idc-say-2015-7">http://www.businessinsider.com/pc-sales-plummet-in-q2-2015-gartner-idc-say-2015-7</a> ).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Gavin Andresen<br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div>
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