I could be ((( d_eddie ))) for all you know, or half-asian (Thai mom), or black or Inuit - well, I admit the latter's unlikely, but I could be. I guess you see what I mean.

Incorrect Bitcoin is just as secure as ever you just have a choice you are not force fed whatever the devs come up with if you like if fine upgrade if you don't then fine don't upgrade you won't be penalized and kicked off the chain

BCH upgrades are hard forked for everyone

any modifications to the signature data automatically changes the security model

There a couple of possibilities here.  

We either have a minimum standard of behaviour (no genocide allowed) or we can fork the thread.  I don’t doubt our good moderator has the best of intentions but it is embarrassing to be associated with some of this stuff, even if only anonymously.  Ain’t nobody got time for Stormfront Word Salad. 

agree with jbreher that you are way out of line.
 there is a very interesting "debate" going on in Australia at the moment where a famous sports player has said because of his religious beliefs he must speak out about homosexuals and how bad they are. Those with much saner minds have pushed back at what he has said including the top referee who is openly gay.  You cannot be racist or anything else just on the grounds that you can say things because you have the right to free speech. What you say should have consequences. There is a famous saying that Kennedy used and I am sure he was a very patriotic President and a supporter of free speech in America. " The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

There was nothing more to say regarding the above I said my opinion

(i)f he was so confident that BCH would topple Bitcoin he would sell it all.

Racism is illegal? Despite our problems, I'm often glad I live in America, where at least we have truly free speech.

Bank runs are only a problem because banks lend out 50 times more than they have.

EIP867 has been merged.  Bring on the protocol wars.

https://cryptoticker.io/ethereum-improvement-proposal-867-sparks-fierce-debate/

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-867.md

folks there is a photo on twitter said that BTG soon on Gdax is that even possible ... ??

As a non believer in BCH this may come as a surprise  to you but most of these claims so seem to be false

1. Yes there will be some wallet somewhere that does contain viruses but the dominant full node is virus free
2. The wallet is not under government control but the heart of BCH is under control of the one's financing it
3. I wouldn't say the coins are completely under the control of ver, nChain (Wright), coingeek (Ayre), and bitmain (Wu) control a huge share too
4. All BCH holders wish to destroy bitcoin as they see BCh as being bitcoin
5. As stated earlier I doubt ver controls 50% of coins maybe 10-20% along with his buddies but I would guess between Ver, Wright, Ayre, Wu combined that they could quite easily control at least 50% of all circulating coins

Finally. We get to something concrete and debatable. Thanks.


Exactly. Three people met and discussed what -- if anything -- to do about malleability. The outcome: nothing at this time. Slight preference for MalFix, but no consensus.

True, one of the participants was the individual who currently leads the market-leading client implementation. Was he the holdout? Who knows? Doesn't matter.

But you fail to support your claim that MalFix would result in Bitcoin Cash abandoning Bitcoin's tried and true security model. Again, put up or shut up. You may just be parroting my observation that The SegWit Omnibus Changeset has caused Bitcoin Segwit to abandon Bitcoin's tried and true security model. But you seem to fundamentally misunderstand Bitcoin. For it is not the separation of sig from tx within The SegWit Omnibus Changeset that has abandoned Bitcoin's security model. Rather, it is the misguided abortional crude hack of pretending that an anyonecanspend tx is anything other than exactly that, which has opened post- SegWit Omnibus Changeset Bitcoin Segwit to a myriad of new attack vectors.

Go sharpen your pencil and get back to us.

Again, until you provide some evidence, all can safely consider this claim debunked, dispatched, and discredited.


Again, you fundamentally misunderstand Bitcoin. Non-mining, fully-validating clients (often misrepresented as 'full nodes') have no power to effect the network itself. This is true whether discussing Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Segwit, or any other PoW satoshi-pattern cryptocurrency. Miners have the power to enact any change they want to - or the majority thereof does. This power is counterbalanced only by the power of users and holders to abandon any chain that does not implement the characteristics they desire. In contrast, the only power non-mining, fully-validating clients possess is to divorce themselves from the network. Period. Other than suiciding themselves, they do not affect they network in any way.

The above is true regardless of Bitcoin Cash or Bitcoin Segwit. For better or for worse, this is the system satoshi bequeathed us. True, miners are likely to use such chain abandonment as a signal of user/hodler displeasure. However, they are fully aware that such non-mining, fully-validating clients are subject to Sybil attacks. The only non-Sybillable resources are mining power and Bitcoin ownership, which is what makes the system work to begin with.


Exactly - and exactly identical for Bitcoin SegWit as for Bitcoin Cash.


No. Non-mining, fully-validating clients are the only entities in the system subject to Sybil attack. While they bring benefits to their owners, they do nothing for the network itself. They are merely a Sybiled proxy for economic power. Again, this is exactly identical for Bitcoin SegWit as for Bitcoin Cash.

Bitcoin cash has been rumoured to have viruses in its wallet

the wallet is centralized Under government control.

The bcash coins are completely under the control of roger ver

he wishes to destroy Bitcoin with the tactics of manipulating the users..

beware roger ver controls over 50% of bcash coins

I once had a Math teacher that insisted that linear functions are any line, not just straight lines. Not sure if he was retarded or if he just didn't like my attitude. Probably both.

Giving up US citizenship for something like NZ citizenship is one obvious route. 

You can take the foreign earned income exclusion which is about $102k if you are outside of the US for 330 days out of the year.

The thing is, that's different from capital gains tax...no exclusion there.

I have tried every avenue to turn my bitcoin capital into income. My original idea was to give/loan/etc. my bitcoins to a foreign company in Turks & Caicos (allows for a single owner of a company, 0% capital gains and income taxes).

But there is a law in the US where if you have over 10% ownership in a company and they sell any capital, you have to pay taxes on it as if you yourself sold that capital.

I considered a Charitable Remainder Trust that allows you to put your money into a trust with a certain amount going to a charity upon your death with the rest held by the trust and you can earn income from that. But with that you have to hand over control of all of that money to another entity to invest with no input from you. Part of your investment would be held for the charitable contribution.

Instead I am just hodling until the US collapses. I can cash out (spend) about $37k of my bitcoins each year and pay no taxes. I am a minimalist so that is plenty for me.

You can’t tax robots because the jobs aren’t going to “robots”, the jobs are going to software.  

The answer is to skill up in skills needed by the automation software industry.  If you cant beat them, join them.  

Don't invest more than you can afford to looose.

There was someone at work living in his office for two weeks before anyone noticed.  No one cared except HR.  They seemed to think it set a bad example.  He was getting a lot done.