&gt; 1. If consensus parameters cannot be voted on then Bitcoin is a failure, and Core&#x27;s huge war against upstarts like XT and BU are totally misplaced (since as you say they cannot be changed by vote)<p>Eagerly awaiting a substantive response to this by maaku.<p>However I disagree with the BU proposition that unrestrained &quot;voting&quot; on max blocksize is a good idea.  It doesn&#x27;t stand up to attacks by a small amount of hash power.