中本聪对Bitcoin XT分叉的看法

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原文：[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT ForkSatoshi Nakamoto satoshi at vistomail.com
Sat Aug 15 17:43:54 UTC 2015

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I have been following the recent block size debates through the mailing list. I had hoped the debate would resolve and that a fork proposal would achieve widespread consensus. However with the formal release of Bitcoin XT 0.11A, this looks unlikely to happen, and so I am forced to share my concerns about this very dangerous fork.

The developers of this pretender-Bitcoin claim to be following my original vision, but nothing could be further from the truth. When I designed Bitcoin, I designed it in such a way as to make future modifications to the consensus rules difficult without near unanimous agreement. Bitcoin was designed to be protected from the influence of charismatic leaders, even if their name is Gavin Andresen, Barack Obama, or Satoshi Nakamoto. Nearly everyone has to agree on a change, and they have to do it without being forced or pressured into it. By doing a fork in this way, these developers are violating the "original vision" they claim to honour.

They use my old writings to make claims about what Bitcoin was supposed to be. However I acknowledge that a lot has changed since that time, and new knowledge has been gained that contradicts some of my early opinions. For example I didn't anticipate pooled mining and its effects on the security of the network. Making Bitcoin a competitive monetary system while also preserving its security properties is not a trivial problem, and we should take more time to come up with a robust solution. I suspect we need a better incentive for users to run nodes instead of relying solely on altruism.

If two developers can fork Bitcoin and succeed in redefining what "Bitcoin" is, in the face of widespread technical criticism and through the use of populist tactics, then I will have no choice but to declare Bitcoin a failed project. Bitcoin was meant to be both technically and socially robust. This present situation has been very disappointing to watch unfold.

Satoshi Nakamoto


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译文: Bitcoin XT 分叉
我通过邮件列表关注了近期关于区块大小的争论。我本希望争论可以解决，并形成一个得到广泛共识的分叉提案。然而，Bitcoin XT 0.11A的正式发布了，这本应不太可能发生，这迫使我表明一下我对这一危险分叉的顾虑。

这个"冒牌-Bitcoin"的开发者声称是在遵循我的初始设计，可是事实并非如此。我设计比特币系统时，是把它设计成这样一种方式：如果不达成几乎一致的认可就难以修改共识规则。比特币的设计是使其不受领袖人物的影响，即使那个人的名字是加文·安德烈森，奥巴马，或是中本聪。几乎所有人都要同意变更，并且不能是被强迫或承受压力才这样做。现在用这种方式进行分叉，那些开发者正在违背了他们所声称忠于的“初始设计”。

他们使用了我过去的一些文字来声称“比特币应该是什么样的”。然而，我承认从那时以后，已经有很多变化发生，已经有了和我早期观点想矛盾的新的认知产生。例如，我没有预料到矿池挖矿和它对网络安全的影响。让比特币成为一个有竞争力的货币系统并保持它的安全属性可不是一个简单的事儿，我们需要更多的时间来拿出一个可靠的解决方案。我想我们需要一个更好的激励方案让用户运行节点，而不是单纯依靠用户的奉献精神。


如果两个开发者就可以分叉比特币，并且面对普遍的技术上的批评，利用民粹主义策略成功地重定义“什么是比特币”，那么我别无选择，只有宣布比特币项目失败了。比特币应具有技术上和人文上的可靠性。目前事态的发展非常令人失望。

中本聪

原文链接：http://lists.linuxfoundation.org ... -August/010238.html
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译者：chehw