Andreas Antonopoulos on "What is Consensus: Rules without Rulers"

in #bitcoin8 years ago

Who is in charge of Bitcoin?

Why is it so hard to change the rules?

The governance model of Bitcoin, where there can be transparent and neutral rules without rulers, without regulators, is confusing to most people. It is a natural human inclination not only to appeal to authority but to see the absence of a leader as an invitation, a "job opening."

Bitcoin has resisted this for nine years, but it is still immature and trying to find its potential. What the failure of SegWit2x demonstrated was not that this group one and that group lost, but that consensus is an overwhelming majority system. Without it, you are unlikely to succeed.
The question is not whether we will scale, but how. The battles we've faced so far are tiny compared to what lies ahead.

The choice you all make between convenience and liberty, between safety and freedom, will open up opportunities for billions tomorrow.

This talk took place at the Swedish Bitcoin Association event on November 19th 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden: http://www.bitcoinforeningen.se/

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Great one.
For most people it’s hard to change their self!
It’s like Gandhi said! And it’s the hardest:
Be the change you wanna see on this world...
✨🌸💫🧞‍♂️
In The yoga sutras the first Sutra is the goal...
Atha yoga anushasanam
Right now you be your true self...!
And nobody understand it!
We all have to switch the quality of thoughts this could switch the system! If everybody talk shit and don’t switches the ego mind....see....shit happens...;-) hugs out
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I love this, Government don't own Bitcoins, the people do

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