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Sun, 24 Apr 2022 10:47:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 16:47:47 +0200 From: Peter Todd To: Zac Greenwood , Bitcoin Protocol Discussion , Zac Greenwood via bitcoin-dev , Keagan McClelland User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] User Resisted Soft Fork for CTV X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 14:55:52 -0000 On April 22, 2022 11:03:51 AM GMT+02:00, Zac Greenwood via bitcoin-dev wrote: >I like the maxim of Peter Todd: any change of Bitcoin must benefit *all* >users=2E This means that every change must have well-defined and transpar= ent >benefits=2E Personally I believe that the only additions to the protocol = that >would still be acceptable are those that clearly benefit layer 2 solution= s >such as LN *and* do not carry the dangerous potential of getting abused b= y >freeloaders selling commercial services on top of =E2=80=9Cfree=E2=80=9D = eternal storage on >the blockchain=2E To strengthen your point: benefiting "all users" can only be done by benef= iting layer 2 solutions in some way, because it's inevitable that the vast = majority of users will use layer 2 because that's the only known way that B= itcoin can scale=2E