Why Pollyanna, what a nice rosy prediction you have there.  If you want to make an altcoin based on hoping for the best, GLWT.

But here at Bitcoin, we plan for the worst.

We are building high-powered money capable of surviving world wars and global depressions, not a gimmicky fancy Visa to give you leverage over the latest fiat bubble.

The Toomininstas are confronting the same problem the Gavinistas did, which is that multiplying a tiny number such as 3tps by another tiny (ie sane) number such as 2 or 4 or even 8 still only produces another tiny number such as 6tps or 12tps or 24tps.

You can't get to Visa tps from here.  Our only realistic path to Visa is orthogonal scaling, where each tx does the maximum economic work possible.

Core and Blockstream are carefully and meticulously preparing Bitcoin for such scaling, via sidechains, Lightning, CLTV, RBF, etc.

Meanwhile Tooministas fret and moan about "Are We There Yet?" and "But Daddy I Want It Now."  As if a "not much testing needed" 2MB jump is not worse than useless...   

Dash can be made into a sidechain.  The PoW function is simply replaced with a two-way-peg to BTC.

The advantage of that is BTC's well-tested sha256 network hashrate is orders of magnitude higher and thus more secure than Dash's problematic homebrew X11.

Sidechains may set whatever local rules they want, including PoS schemes for Masternode voting.

Therefore a sidechain is the ideal medium for a fair Dash relaunch, to take care of the X11 weakest link, Insta-mine, and Foundation centralization problems once and for all.

"All the poor camel wants is to put its nose in the tent, to allow a buffer from sandstorms."

I've already demolished your quasi-neutral thin wedge rubbish.

Bitcoin is not a democracy.

And most of the people who matter support SW now, then 2MB eventually.

And that is the charitable interpretation of Hanlon's Razor.

It is also possible Classic devs actually do grok Bitcoin's fundamentally reactionary and intrinsically anti-democratic nature, but are intentionally attacking it with demagoguery, via populist appeals to the Free Shit Army, on behalf of Hearn@gnome.zurich.ch's R3 puppet masters and Gavin@TLA.MIT.MIL's spooky VC backers.

Franky lives in Imaginationland, because when he tries to participate in gritty harsh reality (with its confusing annual jokes, interpersonal friction, and nasty factionalism) he quickly gets #rekt.

EG, one minute Franky is whining about "negative social drama."  And the next minute he's spreading functionally malicious, objectively false gossip about "not so innocent" P Wuille.

It's all just one big concern troll.  Franky's sniveling process objections are written to be ostensibly even-handed ("zomg both sides are doing it pleeze stawp your're Hurting Bitcoin^TM!!!!  ") but he invariable declares/implies/assumes moral equivalence between Bitcoin's 1MB defenders and its Toominista attackers.

Praising the innovation of Ring CT, while mocking the soda-machine HYIP scam's bad crypto.

Nice turn of phrase.  Consider it stolen.

As the Father of All Truth, Bitcoin is a liberation theology, promising the teeming masses (banked or otherwise) a future day of fiat jubilation.



Adherents will defend its diverse/diffuse/defensible/resilient properties from adversity such as your latest social engineering attack, and grow stronger with experience.

Your middle school level deflections only serve to degrade your own public reputation, but do nothing to avoid the appearance of cowardice on the part of spoiled rich brat Donald, who appears to be terrified by prospect of confrontation by Fox's tall blonde mean girl alpha-hottie.

That's nice.  I want to be able to fly and shoot laser beams out off my ass, but without any painful/expensive surgery or magical compacts with eldrich entities best left unnamed.

You go to war against the socioeconomic majority with the misinformed, low-information, emotionally manipulated, fear-mongering Toominista lynch mob you have, not the idealized Army of Heaven you want.  Good luck beating the Knights of Satoshi with such a mass of surly, gormless Reddit dregs.   

Do you have any plans to reevaluate your assumption that Bitcoin is a democracy, in light of XT, Unlimited, and Classic's ignoble failures?

What a delicious analogy!   

Every coffee purchase must be recorded in the Federal Register with Public Notice; every speeding ticket appeal must be immediately heard before the Supreme Court.

Every opinion must be given prime-time coverage or else ZOMG SENSOR SHIPS.

ToominLand sounds like an absurd, shitty place to actually live.  Basically California 2.0.   

IKR?

A bus factor of one is unacceptable in the world of modern crypto for a project pretending to be professional and not just Some Dude's hobby.

If Azeh gets get by a bus (or his Greyhoud drives off a cliff), it's Game Over.

We are obligated to fight features.  Don't expect the small block militia to just give up and roll over, abandoning our diverse/diffuse/defensible/resilient network to the depredations of Hearn's bankster buddies.

It's not "wasting time" to defend Bitcoin from internal and external adversaries.  To the contrary, that's how we enhance our antifragility.

IOW, Bitcoin runs on drama.  Always has, always will.

If you get tired of it, try taking a nap or making a nice cup of tea.

LOL Java.  The RAM hog from the 90s, now only used for back-office enterprise middleware stuff.  Might as well use Adobe Flash for your scam-platform.   

Try increasing your swap file (virtual memory) allocation.

Or just give up on this hopeless NXT platform and learn to Ethereum, like the rest of the people who don't live in the distant past.

The logo was finished last year.  Bikeshedding is well into negative marginal return territory.

But let's not forget "Bitcoin_Classic" is the premier bikeshedding coin.  The entire thing is being designed by Sybil attack FFS.  

I agree.  The crapulent Evolution roadmap to vaporware not only sucks up resources better spend polishing Dash's existing UX and lagging coin-mixing features, but commits the project to goals unattainable given the present low-budget, single-developer state of Dash.

Why try to make yet another BURST/SIA/STROJ/MAIDSAFE?  That's not Dash's core competency.

What makes Evan believe he can magically do a better job than the 1st-10th movers in the distributed storage space?  Is he just going to copy their work and rebrand it with some new name, like he did with GreenAddress (InstantX) and CoinJoin (DarkSend)?

And the rest of the Evolusham roadmap is just as bad.  Mandatory social network accounts?  Banning users?  That's a joke, right?

Dash needs to do one thing, and do it better than anyone else.  It had the chance with Darkcoin, but wasted the opportunity.

Still, trying to do way too much in 12-18 months only guarantees all of the resulting software will be shoddy, obsolete, and useless.

There is zero evidence for any of those assertions and assumptions.

But when you are brainwashed by the Evan's Gate cult, wishful thinking and reality merge into a miasma of Duffsplanations, cheerleading, and bag holding.

Nonsense.  MK, an attorney by training, is tough on all candidates she interviews.  It's her job to thoroughly and rigorously vet them on behalf of her viewing public.

She made Rand Paul and the rest uncomfortable, but they didn't throw hissy fits about a journalist turning up the heat on people who want to be elected to lead the free world.  Only the poor widdle Richie Rich had a problem with somebody finally standing up to him and taking his ego down a few notches.

Donald doesn't get to effectively veto debate moderators by starting personal feuds with them.  That's not how it works.

If he's afraid of MK being mean to him, how's he going to deal with Putin?  The French and English press may also be relied upon to print very rude, unflattering things, so I guess Donald better go hide in a cave or something.