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This isn't distributed-systems-development, it is bitcoin-development.
Discussion over chain parameters is a fine thing to have among people
who are interested in that sort of thing. But not here.

On 03/23/2014 04:17 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> I find it very irresponsible for Bitcoiners to on one hand extol the virtues
> of distributed systems and then in the same message claim any discussion
> about alternate chains as 'off-topic'.
> 
> If bitcoin-core is for *distributed systems*, then all the different altcoins
> with different hash algorithms should be viable topics for discussion.