It is, if it was an answer to an argument/excuse on an arbitrary change of the bitcoin protocol.
I understand how broken you can be at such moments, but bringing it as an argument on whether we should increase a block size, or not... Please.

man i really don't care about your trolling.
really.
you might even write a poem for me, and trust me: I wont read it

You are an asshole. Gavin was offering a way for people who actually care about this issue to present the various arguments in a useful way AND giving a reason why he can't do it right now. It wasn't an excuse, it was Gavin being his usual pragmatic self.

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Gavin my thoughts are with you and your family.

This has nothing to do with trolling.
I am making a pure ad hominem argument that you are a very impolite person and also an imbecile with stupid arguments so nobody should listen to anything you have to say.
Still on topic.


Sorry for that, I usually lose my control when somebody is an über-asshole.

He deserved it anyway.


By the way, my condolences.

I am an asshole, because Gavin, after being pointed out that his neutrality in the matter is at least questionable brought up an argument of his family member passing away, and I dared to call it silly?

Well, if such a behavior falls under a definition of being an asshole, then maybe I am one - whatever.
But it still doesn't change the fact, that in my opinion there is something seriously wrong with the development of this project.
While the community expects the dev team to solve the scalability problem, the lead developer just makes an announcement that he already made the decisions along with all the other important people from the community and they decided that instead of addressing the scalability issue, while there is still time, they are only going to make it worse, and they will do it as soon as possible. And before it happens, they are also going to lobby against implementing any alternative ways of addressing this issue... hell, they are going to pretend that it isn't even possible to solve it otherwise.

Thank you though for giving me the opportunity to present the various arguments, even though by your definition I obviously belong to the ones who don't care 

Obviously. Read through this topic carefully, instead of just barking around like a rabid chihuahua, and you will find at least a few good ideas.
But they won't get a chance to really develop and built the infrastructure, as long as the transactions are free. So forcing transactions to stay free is probably the best strategy to kill these so needed innovations; and I am old enough to suspect that it might not be a coincidence, but an agenda at work.

You're talking bullshit, man. Transaction fees are at the very core of the bitcoin protocol, so don't tell me that bitcoin was designed with free transactions in mind.
If you make the transactions free forever and this will centralized the infrastructure - how will it be different from what a paypal is today?
How are you going to prevent people running huge bitcoin nodes from getting arrested in Spain, or just killed without a trial in Pakistan, by US authorities or a different mafia?

Actually, one more argument:

- Huge, full Bitcoin nodes can be run on dedicated servers in different countries. The servers are now extremely cheap and will be getting cheaper every year.

So  what if one day the requirement becomes "you must have a government issued license to run a full node"?

You don't think that the governments would never do it to bitcoin, if they could, do you?

Only because running a bittorrent client does not require you do own a data center.
But whoever had to have a data-center and was found supporting a P2P sharing, has likely been shut down already or will be shut down in a near future.
Not to mention that they even go after the poor people, just to make punishing them as an example to others.

No reason to assume that the same thing would not happen to bitcoin, if we let it happen by centralizing the infrastructure.
And the reason is always the same: they want to steal your money, though to make it sound right, they call it either a tax or a copyright fee.