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On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:


> I personally *don't* think he's doing that, rather I believe he knows
> full well it's a bad patch and is proposing it because he wants to push
> discussion towards a solution. Often trolling the a audience with bad
> patches is an effective way to motivate people to respond by writing
> better ones; Jeff has told me he often does exactly that.
>
> I think in this case we shouldn't do anything, so short-circuiting that
> process by pointing out what he's doing publicly makes sense.
>

Assuming that's what Jeff is doing, how does preventing better solutions
from emerging 'make sense'?

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I personally *don&#39;t* think he&#39;s doing that, rather I believe he kno=
ws<br>
full well it&#39;s a bad patch and is proposing it because he wants to push=
<br>
discussion towards a solution. Often trolling the a audience with bad<br>
patches is an effective way to motivate people to respond by writing<br>
better ones; Jeff has told me he often does exactly that.<br>
<br>
I think in this case we shouldn&#39;t do anything, so short-circuiting that=
<br>
process by pointing out what he&#39;s doing publicly makes sense.<br></bloc=
kquote><div><br></div><div>Assuming that&#39;s what Jeff is doing, how does=
 preventing better solutions from emerging &#39;make sense&#39;?<br></div><=
/div></div></div>

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