The original vision of bitcoin was for on-chain scaling with miners competing in a competitive market for PoW mining of blocks with no barriers to entry, Blockstream changed that, and so BCH was forked to continue the original path, which leaves Blockstream and friends to create a second layer that forces users onto their LN which allows them to collect fees (i.e that's their 'business model', Blockstream is a business who happens to have enough of the core devs on staff to have stopped the common sense increase in blocksize last year). None of that is a conspiracy theory, or related to EDA, just the facts to neutral observers like myself.

Calling you a zealot is not a personal attack, look up the meaning, it describes what you're doing pretty accurately, don't take offense, you responded to me as as a partisan warrior in the bitcoin civil war - I'm not partisan at all bro, you are on one side, I'm on neither (or both depending on how you look at it)!

I'll repeat, I own both versions of bitcoin, I think scaling requires both block size increases AND second layer solutions, you are the one taking sides with passionate fervor.

Ok, thanks for making the request, I look forward to seeing the official response from WAVES when you get the reply!

I think we all want faster results and better exchanges, but qora is genuinely a decentralised leaderless crypto project which confers huge advantages over other centralised projects. If qora can continue to limp along and survive this stage the future could be excellent,  the market is heavily concentrated now with corporate coins, and community based projects with dubious legal positions and exposed leadership teams. The corporate projects can prosper, but I see problems with all the community based coins with heavily centralized governance, what purpose do they serve, how can they compete with the corporate cryptos?

Soon decentralisation will matter,  and qora is well placed to thrive when 90% of cryptos are run by corporations, and people still want an alternative that doesn't feel like Facebook or Amazon coin.

EDA  is not relevant to anything i said, you're not making sense at all, you're an argumentative zealot who drank the blockstream AXA koolaid.

I hold both coins in equal numbers and will be happy either way, hopefully both achieve adoption, I just recognise on chain scaling with increased block size was part of the original vision, as was second layer solutions, and bch only exists because blockstream AXA  needs to make revenue from LN, so they obstructed one scaling option to benefit their own interests. Everything else is a smokescreen, do both , bch will end up with second layer scaling like LN too, just with big blocks now when we need increased capacity asap.

You're looking for cheap coins I think, the stratis/blitz deal alone gives huge value to blitz holders, maybe as high as 1/6 the value of stratis, and I still have confidence the stratis whitepaper roadmap will be delivered, either way holding blitz is a good investment.

Blitz is seriously undervalued, the smart money is accumulating,  whatever happens blitz holders will do ok!

I agree 100%, Bitcoin is very flawed in many ways, and a coin like BTX is far superior in nearly every way, but the lack of an unambiguous leadership team makes Bitcoin unstoppable, and that means people can trust that it will be around in some form or other forever, even if the price drops by 90%.

How many alt coins in the top 100 are leaderless, I can't think of any off hand, some have anonymous devs, but do any actually have no clear leadership running them? It would be a courageous decision for devs to just walk away and let the community take control, but it has happened before, the original Qora dev announced he was quitting for personal reasons and literally left the project and has never returned Qora definitely suffered as a result, BUT, amazingly it has survived with community members stepping up at different times to 'do things', so qora is unambiguously leaderless and thus fully decentralised and still survives, so it is possible.

I suggest we wait for more news from stratis devs regarding blitz as the first stratis sidechain as outlined in the stratis whitepaper. If that doesn't eventuate (I.e blitz isn't the first stratis sidechain and something else is) then we cross that bridge if and when we come to it, but for now we have no reason to doubt stratis devs, the bittrex delisting has nothing to do with stratis devs, any connection being made between bittrex and stratis devs abandoning blitz is FUD.

Don't forget stratis devs are probably blitz whales too, they have no reason to ditch blitz and risk a possible legal fight they could easily lose, or at best win but waste valuable resources like time, focus, and money.

Afaik home PC is powerful enough but you need a fixed IP, so cheap vps is probably easier for most people.

I am not talking about emergency difficulty at all, I did not mention it once, so your whole reply is worthless bro, you're not very smart if you reply rebutting points I did not even make ... are you one of those zealot types? Did you read I hold equal amounts of both?

Blitz investors have a deal with stratis founder, and a number put on the table (1/6 swap with stratis), for the offer that was declined , but we can assume a similar valuation for the offer that was agreed to. This means blitz has value no matter what happens with bittrex listing, anyone who doubts this is free to sell to those who realise this deal can always be tested in court via a class action, there are any number of lawyers prepared to work on a no win no fee basis to get a name for themselves in crypto , and likely win a huge compensation case. Do the math, read the terms of the deal offered, 1/6 of stratis is a huge amount, there is a case here if the stratis devs abandon blitz.

I don't think stratis devs will abandon blitz!

You should contact komodo support then, if you sent in your btcd before the deadline you should be ok!

Sorry bro, the btcd swap ran for about a year, and ended months ago. Maybe you can deposit still to poloniex and sell it there, some people love zombie coins still!

This is good news indeed, I've been waiting for this for what seems like years now (maybe it has been years lol )

Skycoin is a potential black swan!

I guess decred isn't a hype coin, more appeal for crypto true believers who appreciate the time and effort put into the tech and governance structure. Probably see some large buy ins later this year, I prefer steady growth, and decred definitely has a lot of industry respect now as a quality project. 

Wow, how much traffic is komodo's new decentralised  atomic swap exchange BarterDEX going to get when the new user friendly GUI gets released in a few weeks, those listing fees are insane!

BarterDEX alpha has already done +100k atomic swaps, and with low trading fees, zero listing fees, no kyc requirements, and complete control of your private keys always, BarterDEX is going to revolutionise crypto trading.

Pro tip, the DEX asset earns 50% of BarterDEX fees, should be returning big profits in Q3 this year.

Edit, is sia compatible with BarterDEX ?

Thank you, what do you mean by moved to other corporate control, can you clarify whether Coinomat and NXT asset swaps are still part of the waves roadmap? Any news would be most appreciated, it's been over 2 years now with very little communication from Sasha on how these investors will be looked after.

I think most are aware byteball is centralized now while the distribution is still on going, and the network is still relatively small, and new features are being added by Tony. If things remain as centralized as they are now for too long I think we all know what will happen, including Tony.

I am just about ready to boot up my own masternode, and I plan to run it for 1250 days and earn 25k bsd for another masternode, and then run both for another 625 days and earn another 25k bsd for another masternode etc

Just wish I'd started earlier!

The network is stable and working fine, that's all anyone really needs, and that's been enough to keep an active community going around qora, and attract some talent that is making gradual improvements to the tech.