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deadalnix
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rSTAGING43613883f76b: Update README introduction
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schancel created this revision.Feb 20 2018, 02:53

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Harbormaster completed remote builds in B1894: Diff 2931.Feb 20 2018, 03:15

jasonbcox accepted this revision.Feb 20 2018, 03:30

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 20 2018, 03:30

I have a few issues with the wording:

"fair money" is needlessly ambiguous, and can be interpreted as something other than "sound money". Some people don't think sound money is "fair", and favor things like demurrage for example
"gradient-free economy" is not a common term, and people won't know what it means
Should avoid using the first-person "we" as much as possible
I don't think it's necessary to get into what was the mission of the "original bitcoin team".

I'll try to write an alternative version to see what you think

This revision now requires changes to proceed.Feb 20 2018, 04:12

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deadalnix accepted this revision.Feb 20 2018, 14:46

I Googled "gradient-free economy", it has no hits. So I still think that's a term best avoided.

I came up with some alternate wordings that I think are more decriptive of our goals:

"The goal of Bitcoin ABC is to create sound money that is useable by everyone in the world.
We believe this is a civilization-changing technology which will dramatically increase human
flourishing, freedom, and prosperity. The project aims to achieve this goal by implementing
a series of optimizations and protocol upgrades that will enable peer-to-peer digital cash to
scale many orders of magnitude beyond current limits."