Now that BitcoinXT (GVC) is pretty much dead in the water I wanted to get opinions from the community on why exactly it died.

The main reasons I think it died was

1. The roaring egos of the devs
2. The increased ability to control the coin through centralization


Thoughts?


~BCX~

Ok, so miners decide over whether to fork or not by setting their preferred version bits in the mined blocks. But wait! What if a bunch of rogue miners with a lot of hashing power would try to enforce a fork against the will of all other users? As miners will want their revenue, they will want to sell their mined coins. But if no other user would want to pay for coins correlated to the fork, enforcing the fork would mean a costly revenue loss.

While real world scenarios are hardly as simple as the one sketched above, it suggests that Bitcoin may be more democratic for non-miners with respect to forking decisions if common wallet implementations would allow distinguishing between version bits of the blocks where the coins originate from.

Any thoughts or objections?

i'll keep this short, i've made a cipher, anyone who can crack it will receive 0.56 Bitcoins. Depending on how long it will take you i might increase the reward over time (timer 30 Days, after that i'll decide what to do)

here it is !




Proof of funds; https://blockchain.info/address/1CQQ9menL2fZGdEseDsdC278rQ12Ai9XfG

The Banach–Tarski Paradox

As of Jul 31, 2015, the above video has enjoyed 3,853,383 views. If the folks viewing that can wrap their heads around the Banach-Tarski Paradox concept, then Bitcoin, with or without the math, should be a no-brainer for them.

I understand there is a lack of alternatives, and there is not a better place for up to date information.

But, in the light of Bitcoin and what it represents, neither of these platforms promote the same ideologies.  So, just curious to reach out and ask why the community continues to visit these sites?  What is your take?  Would you move to another platform? What would it take? What are your favorite alternatives?  And 170,000 odd subscribers, what # do you estimates is multiple user accounts (I personally have about 8 of those) and active Bitcoiners?

Here are the 186 ($42,222.00 as of this posting) Bitcoins taken from me by Homeland Security:

https://blockchain.info/address/1Eu38i1DkRAPAJhSqbseVroJDpMRfJbAx3

I am sure you guys can come up with some creative, interesting, fun ideas to do with this information.

I watched the presentation on the lightning network and if it allows regular payments along with the option for this side enhancement then it could help a lot with the block size problem.

The lightning network basically allows people to set up payment nodes to run transactions which can be as many transactions as you want in a certain amount of time without touching the blockchain. At the end of the time period the final balance of the transaction is posted to the blockchain. The people running the nodes have no way to interfere with the transactions and it allows for more anonymity.

I am cautiously optimistic about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aI4inWxBwk

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