Why is dogecoin going to the moon  'Cause when every crypto is stupid you go with the stupid crypto |
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There's really only two outcomes without a higher or removed max block size: stagnation or network congestion failure.
Like you don't need a gun to kill an ant, you don't need bitcoin to buy your damned coffee. Bitcoin is for gentlemen's transactions. Capisc? As this block size debate clearly shows: gentlemen don't use Bitcoin. |
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I'm a notorious big blocks shill (it seems) and even I think 75% is too low. There'll be a lot of cat herding for 90%. And I cannot think of anyone in the Bitcoin community who doesn't cause offense consistently. |
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It is helpful to clarify and confirm that some of the agitation for 2MB is merely for the sake of "a test of Core team's willingness to listen" (wherein "listen" actually means "obey").
A contentious hard fork is not a "a small compromise" because it puts the entire system at risk of catastrophic consensus failure (and will almost certainly crash the price).
The 'you have to give me something because otherwise you're uncompromising and I will pout' negotiation tactic will not work on Bitcoin engineering decisions.
Our Honey Badger really does not care about hurt feelings from pushy token-demanding nobodies (of any nationality).
If Honey Badger starts negotiating and compromising simply to appease emotionally needy peoples' pleas for a pat on the head, the Bitcoin experiment ends in failure.
I hope this helps you understand why a 2MB increase is not as easy as throwing a bone to a barking dog.
I thought that the core devs wanted to listen to "the community"? Now you are telling me that yes, they may condensed themselves but whatever you Chinese may have to say, it is of no consequence and should have zero effect on the outcome because we know better? Excuse my poor English but this strikes me as a bit condescending. FYI, Eric, iCEBREAKER is not a core dev. I see. Actually, I think more people in China are coming to realise that they may have nobody to blame but themselves. And my company, HaoBTC, has been contemplating sponsoring a core developer recently. What do you mean? Some believe that the Chinese community's interest being underrepresented at the level of core development is much due to the fact that as a whole they have been myopically focusing on making money and not paying enough attention to protocol maintenance. As a result, they have almost no say and are little more than merely audience. Sponsoring one or several developers sounds like a very good investment. I've noticed resentment towards the Chinese Bitcoin community for not contributing enough to development. There also seems to be a need for more communication channels between the Chinese Bitcoin community and the rest of the Bitcoin community. China is very important to Bitcoin and the lack of communication and understanding is creating friction where there doesn't need to be. One common phenomenon is the conflation, in the minds of bitcoiners outside of China, of Chinese Bitcoin companies with the Chinese government. This is important, since the large majority of mining is located in China and Chinese pools are seen as a potential point of failure for Bitcoin as a decentralized system. The worry that the Chinese government could decide to interfere with Bitcoin, in a similar way as it interfered with Chinese exchanges in 2013/2014, needs to be addressed. And the initiative should come from the Chinese Bitcoin community. Making crucial Chinese business actors more visible in the community and seeing them engage with the community like you're doing now is one very important step. Another is to respect the unease among bitcoiners worldwide about the theoretical potential for Chinese government interference by taking some solid steps to improve the decentralization of Bitcoin mining by, in the short to medium term, sending hashing power to established and trusted non-chinese pools so that Chinese pools don't hold a majority; in the long term, create joint ventures outside of China and get more HW physically outside of Chinese jurisdiction. You and your Chinese colleagues might see other solutions, but it's important for the future of Bitcoin that it doesn't have to trust the "good will" of any nations government. Solving, or at least mitigating, this problem/worry would go a long way to further China's influence in the Bitcoin community. And with the potential for Bitcoin in China it would be a disservice to the entire Bitcoin community if China wasn't heard. Best Regards Beware: iCEBREAKER is a bully. His main goal is normally to disrupt dialogue. |
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So your answer is ad hominem?
It's perfectly reasonable to reply with an ad hominem when you talk down to the community like that. You threw logic out of the window when you went down that path. |
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help please
when i open the wallet ,in the blue box tell me this: couldnt start an ethereum node
are you already running a node? make sure your IPC path
it set to default geth --ipcpath //./pipe\geth.ipc
its the firsttime i see this.....
how i can resolve?
thanks in advance
 how i make this? what do u mean? It's half a joke, but if there's anything running from a previous session it might help to turn the computer off and on again. |
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help please
when i open the wallet ,in the blue box tell me this: couldnt start an ethereum node
are you already running a node? make sure your IPC path
it set to default geth --ipcpath //./pipe\geth.ipc
its the firsttime i see this.....
how i can resolve?
thanks in advance
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Any assessment on its safety? |
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Meanwhile at the PwC/Blockstream meeting: "So, we can funnel all the traffic through PwC-servers with something called The Lightning Network?" Blockstream isn't selling its soul to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Rather, it is PwC that is selling its soul to the blockchain. It's their Come To Jesus moment, wherein they seek forgiveness and redemption. PwC knows which way the wind is blowing; it's blowing in the direction of davout's famous maxim. The true value that Bitcoin brings to the table is not "everyone gets to write into the holy ledger", it is instead "everyone gets to benefit from sane and non-inflationary financial instutions whose sanity and honesty are ensured by the holy blockchain". -davout Yet there you are, trying to spin the new era of sane/transparent/honest Big Four accounting as some sort of deal with the devil. Are you mad Bitcoin (resplendent in triumph) is being used for world-changing heavy lifting as Satoshi intended, instead of yet another trivial retail payment rail disruption?  I guess you have to turn to humour with so much fail. |
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IMO crash got delayed... Made me close my short at a small profit... I hope I won't wake up tomorrow at 300$.  I'm not comfortable atm. Bitcoin is moody today. OTOH, The Mother Of All Pumps was announced today, so I'll dream about that. |
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Maybe Peter Todd isn't actually the vermin his online reputation would suggest. The Blockchain stunt to promote RBF was still a shitty thing to do. RBF is a very good solution. There must be competition for blockchain inclusion. You can offer your own idea. If you can't, then stfu. I wasn't commenting on the merits of RBF. |
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Please explain how that particular setup becomes a pressing conflict of interest issue. Who gets money from whom? What is implemented into the Bitcoin code due to this voting solution rather than any other voting solution?
The more popular Consider.it becomes the more valuable it becomes? So nobody gets money from anyone and no code is added exclusively due to this solution. But it becomes more valuable because it gets more exposure. Wouldn't anything the Toomim bros do get more exposure if they become lead devs? Centralized voting systems are useless anyhow and vulnerable (as recently demonstrated by a Sybil attack).
I would have preferred a decentralized solution where people were uniquely identifiable. But that doesn't have much to do with conflict of interest. |
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Maybe Peter Todd isn't actually the vermin his online reputation would suggest. The Blockchain stunt to promote RBF was still a shitty thing to do. |
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Rpietila has a castle where he will tell you about the jews and the New World Order.
I thought he put that up for sale a year or two ago (which may not mean he doesn't still have it) He bragged about it a couple of weeks ago. But as lambie said, selling castles ain't easy nowadays. Unless some Bitcoin-loon just made a fortune by sitting on his ass, that is. |
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>They have only 1 developer on the payroll working on it IIRC.
Other core devs on their payroll, like Wuille and Maxwell. One's enough tho. Hard to ignore the potential for conflict of interests.
1 developer working on LN. Mentioning Wuille and Maxwell is a straw man argument. Since you've mentioned 'conflict of interest': The Toomin brothers are working hard to make consider.it the main platform (decision wise) for Bitcoin. There's no conflict of interest there obviously. Please explain how that particular setup becomes a pressing conflict of interest issue. Who gets money from whom? What is implemented into the Bitcoin code due to this voting solution rather than any other voting solution? |
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Rpietila has a castle where he will tell you about the jews and the New World Order.
That sounds fun. I like stories. I hope he'll tuck me in at night too. But does that follow the correct party line? I don't want to be reeducated twice. I'm getting old and I'm keen to serve. You're to be reeducated, not sleep. I'm not sure what party line he follows but he's the right brand of crazy. And when it comes down to it, that's all you really need. |
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Don't you know anything about Bitcoin?
Chinese people adopting Bitcoin->Boring->Doesn't matter
Mt.Gox Willy-bot trading with fantasy coins->Conspiracy->Must be only explanation
Oh, Ok. Can you arrange for me to be sent to reeducation camp? Ideally a Blockstream one? I really, really want to fit in from now on. Rpietila has a castle where he will tell you about the jews and the New World Order. |
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My gut says sub $200 is possible......
Regular Coca Cola has a documented effect on weird tummies. |
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