My node has 2600.

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I tested on several devices with different browsers and I can see signatures just fine while not logged in.

Everything can be priced in everything else. Fiat is simply the easiest at the moment because everything else is currently priced in fiat.

If we, as you wished, used the BigMac index instead, people would just be forced to do the math in their head to figure out the price...


If it doesn't happen organically, it's just another fiat currency.

The only way an authority can seize properly secured bitcoins is with the explicit permission of the sole controller of the private keys. Anyone you've read about who has had their bitcoins seized without explicit permission from the sole controller of the private keys has failed to properly secure their bitcoins.

The only way an authority can block properly secured bitcoins is with the cooperation of 100% of the miners (I say 100% because any miner who does not cooperate will have their blocks ignored and will be mining a fork).

Organically. Bitcoin is a great example. At first it had no value, then people started trading other items of value for it.

Just do it man. Hardfork and let it compete on the market. See what happens!

This is one of the beauties of Bitcoin. Every half-wit with some hair-brained idea can implement it at any time.

Fork it, get your superior coders, and share it with everyone.

I'll be holding my breath in anticipation!

How much orange juice can you get from a bushel of apples?

FTFY!

Relevant: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79913.0

I, personally, won't be satisfied until the Bitcoin network is running smoothly on a global wireless mesh network.

Decentralization (which allows for censorship resistance) has a cost.

I picked up the computer running my Bitcoin node.

I have ALL the bitcoins in my hand now.

Which is why I also linked the article from the 2015 election in England which shows the original, unedited picture of this supposed Ohio warehouse worker.

Don't believe me, don't believe snopes, look for yourself.

I don't know about you guys, but when I break some important news like election fraud... I use photoshopped MS painted photos from something completely unrelated... for that extra touch of authenticity.

Well, since this thread happened I was curious so I watched my node until a new block was found.

The block took around 23 minutes to find. My mempool filled up to around 2200 transactions with about 3MB memory usage. When the block was found, both were cleared to near zero.

What's the problem?

My node has fee rules which filter obvious spam.

PS: For noobs like kwuk who don't run nodes, there is no "the mempool", it's different for every node. Basing your claims on a node which forwards transactions which are clearly spam is silly. Don't kwuk up and make the same mistake.

Seriously.

Satoshi, as smart a dude as he is, isn't prescient. At least not on everything. In 2009 we weren't fully aware of the levels that certain groups would go to in order to violate our freedom. We didn't know how far governments would go to spy on their own citizens. Satoshi hasn't been heard from for almost six years now. A lot has happened during that time. Capital controls continue to grow more onerous across the globe. You'll have to excuse me for having strong opinions about the one financial tool we have left which allows us to retain a small foothold of freedom in a world where we are assaulted daily with new forms of control.

If Bitcoin scales to VISA levels of transaction today, it will most likely come with VISA levels of censorship. We should strive to keep the underlying network as robust as possible, because the high speed internet we take advantage of today may not exist in the future without significant controls on what kind of information can and can not be sent. It isn't unreasonable to think that major ISPs could be forced to block all Bitcoin related traffic. At that point it becomes a game of cat and mouse, and the more information we need to share to keep the thing up and running, the more difficult the task becomes.

Efforts for scaling should come as layers on top of the robust network infrastructure. That way we can fall back to the lower layers should the need arise.

I, personally, will not be satisfied with the robustness of the network until it's running smoothly on a global wireless mesh network which is practically impossible to "switch off" or censor. When considering a change which could impact decentralization, we should err on the side of decentralization every single time. Financial freedom is the priority here. Every transaction does not need to be censorship-proof in a world where censorship-proof transactions exist!

My vote concerning full nodes: The more, the merrier.

But yeah, well... ya know, that's just like... uhh... my opinion man.

The technology to scale Bitcoin to those user levels and keep it censorship-proof doesn't exist. That's the reality of the situation.

Bitcoin doesn't need to be used for every transaction under the sun. It does, however, need to remain censorship-proof, otherwise it's no different than any other payment system.

Bitcoin can not compete with centralized solutions, nor should it. Banks and credit cards are perfectly fine for everyday transactions. Bitcoin should remain as the censorship-proof solution, which will, simply by existing, keep other solutions honest, or at least more honest than they otherwise would have been.

If we ignore the properties which makes Bitcoin useful and unique, in the hopes of getting the "mainstream" on board, those properties might cease to exist. Bitcoin users need to stop being spoiled by the early days of cheap, quick transactions and understand the need for fees and a network which can be maintained in a world where the ability to freely exchange information may be severely hindered. You can be certain that if Bitcoin ever does become a threat to the status quo, there will be significant efforts to prevent the information required to keep the Bitcoin network running from being easily shared.

My Bitcoin node (with the 1MB spam filter in place, mind you) happily uses bandwidth well above what you can expect from all but the highest tier services from the most modern ISPs. Increasing the amount of data that nodes must share will certainly have an effect on the amount of nodes available for sharing that data, which is detrimental to the decentralization required to keep transactions censorship-proof.

I'm sure that you go out of your way to pay more in taxes than required by law.

I think you mean "larger chain".

Buy him a beer, thank him, and move on.

You specifically called out a certain group...

So... everyone should be gung-ho about paying as much as they possibly can to the welfare/warfare state?

Lie to get an advantage? LOL! This is the MO of the typical politician.