Author: Joel Joonatan Kaartinen 2011-08-11 11:45:30
Published on: 2011-08-11T11:45:30+00:00
The conversation is about the resistance of the community to changes in Bitcoin's design. Andy Parkins believes that the community needs to become more flexible and open to change, or risk losing developers. He suggests that a fork of the project should be created that would allow for experimentation with new ideas without endangering the existing blockchain. The conversation then turns to the difficulty of finding previous discussions, which often leads to people making suggestions that have already been rejected. A suggestion is made to create a wiki page to track past suggestions and decisions, so that people can be referred there instead of being dismissed outright. The hope is that this will lead to a more productive discussion of new ideas, while also allowing the existing codebase to remain stable.
Updated on: 2023-05-26T20:13:34.966905+00:00