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The adoption of @AskTheBMP among at least a subset of the #Bitsheviks is inevitable.
It is a bad idea for actual governance, but a great idea for allowing a moderately competent sociopath propagandist to capture control over the direction of the protocol.
Here's why:
The adoption of @AskTheBMP among at least a subset of the #Bitsheviks is inevitable.
It is a bad idea for actual governance, but a great idea for allowing a moderately competent sociopath propagandist to capture control over the direction of the protocol.
Here's why:
The idea behind the Bitcoin Mining Parliament is that you can "poll" miner opinion on just about any question and get back "votes" tied to actual blocks. This is an extension of "miner signaling" that's been used quite a few times in the past, particularly to activate soft forks
The difference with the BMP and the mechanisms used for soft fork activation is that the BMP results don't, on their own result in changes to the rules of the network and the operation of nodes.
So, on its own the BMP is just a dumb idea. In the hands of a sociopath though...
So, on its own the BMP is just a dumb idea. In the hands of a sociopath though...
