Adira Koffsky

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LegendaryActivity: 1176Merit: 1130 Re: 5+5 system model design requirements? April 27, 2017, 04:23:00 AM #8 Quote from: akalafactor on April 28, 2017, 05:06:08 AM Yay 5+5 system!

Also great to read something different from many coins that also incorporate aspects of the 5+5 block. Of course I think it's important to note how much of Bitcoin we basically all know and understand without the 5+5 block, which almost makes me feel like I just spent my entire time being on the internet questioning Satoshi when he was supposed to still be working at _doing what Satoshi was trying to do_.

As always I wish it was possible to make things interesting from now on, but then why make it hard on the protocol, even with a few changes, to allow new ideas to be good enough for humans to understand and promote their adoption when it's all, in my opinion, basically boring?

I think the question Satoshi is stuck with is whether the 5+5 block is doable without fundamental changes or not, as with even other cryptocurrencies.

To be honest I probably would have preferred a 7+7 and even still many, especially those more blockchain oriented coins, would come out with an interesting and interesting 7+7 implementation, but any one of those options definitely might not be what Satoshi would have liked, hence at least at the moment I'm waiting for him to come back to our systems and find such a model actually viable.

I, of course, hope to see Satoshi later on in 2018 doing something new and exciting, but at the moment I feel even as a bit bored with the whole blockchain / 7+6 / 5+5 block / whatever combination it could be defined or called nowadays. To quote my favorite philosopher and a software developer:

"You're never finished coding, you never finish being a computer programmer. All programming is the same: adding features to something, building it up from the ground up, discovering the bugs, getting your code right, taking your chances if it works, if it crashes or you don't like it, adding more features, bigger bugs and making it work somewhere more difficult or more effective better.