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by riprowan 3741 days ago
> Bitcoin could be easily made Turing complete.

A simple increase from 1MB blocks as proposed in 2010 by the software's creator is treated by obstructionists like Greg Maxwell as "theft" and a violation of social contract and blocked for six years.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.0

Some of the original obstructionists are still at it, and so far, Mike Hearn is right: it's working.

How gullible would one have to be to think that reengineering Turing-completeness into the system will be remotely possible?