Thread by @cyprianous

THREAD

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...

What BMP results *do* accomplish is to give a certain position a oral legitimacy." We are seeing that in BCH now with the #Bitsheviks constantly referencing joint statements and miner signaling as indicating the proper moral behavior

Go against the signaling, and you're an enemy

So, if you want to be in control of a culture drawing its moral compass from the results of miner signaling, and that miner signaling is being done through the BMP, you need only do two things:

1. Control what things are ever voted on

2. Control miner preference with propaganda

This is why a semi-competent sociopath propagandist, in a position of authority within the organizational structure of the BMP itself (controls website, social media accounts, has some title), will in short order, be able to present his own preferences as "the will of the miners"

Should be moral* legitimacy 😉