Eew, no.  

Anyone with any sense in their heads should boycott CoinGeek completely.  Awful site.  And there should be a community-wide embargo on any and all conferences which support the notorious identity thief, Faketoshi, or his worthless forkcoin.

See topic:  Bitcoiners Against Identity Theft [re: Craig Wright scam]

A browser plugin seems more appropriate for this.  I'm not a codemonkey, but I'm pretty sure that's feasible.  Doing it that way, the forum itself won't have to carry any additional burden.

Then it potentially becomes a trade-off.  How much are you willing to compromise to support a feature that may not be compatible with the current implementation?  What are you willing to sacrifice in order to make a gain elsewhere?  The beauty of building something off-chain is that you don't need to compromise the base protocol. 

If you build something on top of Bitcoin, people can opt in if they choose to.  They can decide for themselves what compromises they are willing to make.  There's no requirement to convince everyone to make the same choice.  How do you always see this as some sort of sordid and undesirable course of action? 

Take it a step further.  If you absolutely have to use Twitter (I don't bother with it at all), try only following people that you know in person.  That would make it less of a cesspit.  All this "celebrity" and "influencer" nonsense rots the brain.

Indeed.  Between the issues of finding consensus and problems surrounding compatibility with the underlying architecture, it is challenging to add new features to the base protocol.  This is why it's predominantly optimisations which are added there.

The real question becomes how many features are actually worth implementing.  Some of them may only have niche appeal.  If legitimate altcoins are filling all the existing niches in the market (and all the crapcoins merely have decorative baubles), there's likely very little advantage to adding lots of extra features.     

For someone who believes they're in a position to "fix" Bitcoin with radical changes, you certainly have some questionable ideas.  If you want to start a project with a loudmouth, celebrity narcissist with questionable motives and a track record of sudden, erratic U-turns, you're more than welcome to try.  But don't pretend for a second that this is something you have the community's support on.  

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I see you've now seen sense, but your initial thought should always be about what you can validate for yourself, not what you can rely on someone else to do for you.

Getting some distinct deja vu here.  Didn't we basically have this same topic three or four years ago?  I'm sure I remember someone saying the same thing a while back.  

Will do some digging...

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Yeah, I'm just remembering it was Gensler that said it in 2018, but it's behind a paywall now:  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/technology/gensler-mit-blockchain.html

So same opinion, but the difference now is he's in a position to act on it.

It's always amusing when people are this myopic.  Calm down, Chicken Little, the sky isn't falling.  

If you could tell us where you got that time machine from to allow you to accurately predict the future, that would be useful information.  Failing that, I don't think you have anything to offer us here.  

You're discussing the forum, moron.  This is where topics go when it's about the board itself.  

See?

Talking about a board goes here.



I have a sneaking suspicion it was more to do with the manner in which you report things.  It's not surprising you often find yourself banned.  Try being less of an obnoxious asshat.

I don't see any benefit in attempting to anthropomorphise Bitcoin in this fashion.  It doesn't need your projected human traits.  Just gain the benefits from using it and leave it at that.

That does seem the most likely option.

And yeah, I'm sure we'll hear something controversial from them again soon enough.  That said, the people here don't forget and it seems like very little escapes the attention of the ever-watchful gaze of the denizens of this community.  I suspect they'll be monitored closely from now on, so they'll have to be pretty cunning to surprise us with any nefarious schemes.

Sounds like Marathon have now changed their stance on censoring transactions.  Do we think this was an ethical decision?  Or a financial one?  The timing of this raises questions for me.  Is it possible the recent price drop caught them off guard and interfered with their profit margins?  Were they maybe left with no alternative?

If you're happy to discredit yourself by spouting nonsense that only uninformed amateurs and trolls would say, that's fine by us.  Every single post you've made about this is already on the wrong side of history.  You can't simply create something "better" from out of nowhere like that.  It takes time for things to grow and evolve.  This network has become battle-hardened and continues to survive and thrive despite being under constant attack.  It's not something you can just copy and magically achieve the same result.

Almost all of these fifteen-minutes-of-fame crapcoins you're talking about won't last long enough to develop network effects.  They have no utility.  You can't use them for anything, besides baseless speculation.  And mindless speculation is the only thing you seem to be commenting on here.  Perhaps it's merely the only part about all this that's on your intellectual level.



Then you must be a really slow learner, because you clearly can't recognise when something isn't a bubble.  Again, this is a robust, developed, thriving economy.  It's something that grew over time because people found it useful.  If the only thing you are capable of seeing is the price, it's no wonder anyone reading this will think you're ignorant or just plain dumb.



You keep using this word "better" and yet leave it undefined and open to interpretation.  It's almost as though you don't know how to justify that statement, because you suspect you would fail if you tried.  "Better" how?  What can you use these "better" coins for?  What purpose do they serve?  I'm of the view that the only legitimate altcoins are the ones that serve a niche which Bitcoin wouldn't support very well.  If it fills a gap in the market, it's a valid coin.  Beyond that, anything else is worthless.  



Maybe you don't read the news.  Pension funds lose money on all sorts of things all the time.  Just because they're gambling on something new, it doesn't mean the new thing is bad.  I fail to see how it could be any worse than the derivatives casino they're normally losing everyone's money in.  

The same reason people always use sensationalist language.  It attracts more attention.  People repeat what they read.  And, seemingly, the only way writers know to convince people to read something is to make it sound more dramatic than it really is.  So people read a sensationalist headline and then go on to tell everyone else a hyped-up version of events.

Granted, on this particular occasion, some might argue it is an actual crash.  But you'll also see the same description for even minor corrections or gradual downtrends.  Might as well get used to it, though.  It's not going to change any time soon.

The question is how do you enforce a ban?  The few places are are attempting to ban it seem to be relying on a tactic where they offer rewards to people for being informants and providing information on who is mining.  Much like how people still run grow-ops and marijuana farms in many places, despite the fact that they're not supposed to.  Getting caught will just be seen as an operating cost by many.  Just because something is illegal, doesn't mean everyone stops doing it.



Does that mean you'll go away now?

Cool, so I'm like the dozenth name on the list of people you've said are alts of Lauda.  What's it like having zero imagination and responding to every single person in the same way?

Some of us have enough spinal fortitude to stand by their one and only account and not attempt to mask their past mistakes.  It's called personal growth.  You should give it a try some time.



Yes, that 1.025% of the world's nations claiming that they've banned it while in practice still contributing to the hashrate sure is a concern.  What ever will we do?   

The agenda is more than a little transparent here.  You only pretend to care about energy efficiency and the environmental impact of PoW because you peddle a PoS shitcoin.  You want to shout from the rooftops, "hey, look at these (currently) successful projects and mine should also be successful by proxy for some reason".  Except it doesn't work like that. 



Spare us the 'Helen Lovejoy' routine.  Say, if they ever invented aircraft that ran on PoS, then you could pretend to care about the environmental impact of those too. 

Isn't it shameful how wasteful it is to burn jet fuel.  Won't somebody please think of the children?   

Every platform that lists a decentralised coin does so on the understanding that once the coins are deposited to an address they control, it would take a raid on their physical premises for a government agency or police to seize those assets.  In most countries, that requires a warrant, which is generally only issued if authorities have evidence of wrongdoing by the platform.

If CBDCs are as centralised as I suspect they will be, all it takes is for the central bank to update their ledger (which they will likely be in full control of) and they can suddenly decide those coins aren't there anymore.  Coins could, in theory, be frozen or confiscated at will.  Why would a platform risk that kind of uncertainty?

Don't take trading advice from cryptoboss2020. 

They have a history of posting completely illogical and downright ludicrous theories which don't make any rational sense.  Spare your precious brain cells and place them on ignore.

In short, no.

My suspicion is they'll only allow licenced currency traders or brokers to do that.  More to the point, even if you could, why would you take the risk?  Any CBDC you were hypothetically able to deposit to an exchange could be confiscated at any time, without warning.

If CBDCs work the way I think they will, I wouldn't list them if I ran an exchange.