# Gavin Andresen
# 2010-07-29 18:49:18
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=617.msg6447#msg6447

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He/she/they want an easier way for The Crowd to control The Policy@p{--} right now, if you know enough C++ to modify and compile your own version of Bitcoin and can convince enough other people to use your version, then you can change Policy. @p{par}

Allowing everybody to tweak Policy and having some sort of mechanism that figures out what "everybody" wants to do is an interesting idea.  I have no idea how you could actually make it work, and it would open up a whole other can of potential security problems (what if somebody controls a bunch of IP addresses and decides to "vote" for a policy that benefits them?  or can you tie the policy changes to proof-of-work somehow?  How do you aggregate what "everybody" thinks in a non-spoofable way? etc etc etc)... @p{brk}