Have you seen the shit thrown at everyone who is a developer for Bitcoin? Any new coin creator will have to have a spotless history, and I think Litecoin can handle micro transactions as it only has a 2.5 minute blocktime which is fine for small transfers while Bitcoin and large transfers would probably prefer the longer block times for security. That and I think most would like a blockchain to track transactions even for micro transactions then just off the chain.

Are you serious ? Leeching off what marketcap ? Nobody owns this market. Altcoins have attracted their own markets through distinctive technologies that others do not support. They haven't "leeched" off anything.


There are 2 "flavours" of fiat pegged alt currencies - 1 which uses supply restricted algorithms to manage the flow of coins to market and another who's blockchain supports the dynamic creation of pegged currencies by the matching of short and long positions in that currency - sort of like very granular banking.

In the latter case, as the adoption of the pegged asset increases, so does the value of the underlying collateral. This makes for a very elegant solution because it satisfies 2 disparate market requirements in a complimentary way - 1. The demand for risk assets which deliver a return on investment 2. The demand for a stable trading currency for use in retail and commercial markets.

You only have to look at coinmarketcap.com to see that they work:

You know Bitcoin is a joke when it's lead developer and creator stops developing for it. :p

The "there can only be one" camp of Bitcoiners do not understand that altcoins supporters don't necessarily think that any altcoin will overtake Bitcoin in value. I can't speak for everyone, but I believe that Bitcoin will always be the "one" cryptocurrency, the crypto reserve currency.* But there will always be room for a few more cryptocurrencies that are adopted widely just like Bitcoin. These cryptocurrencies will have independent economic models and not pegged to Bitcoin and will have a free-floating market price. As toknormal said, the market has already decided that altcoins have a future. The market is smarter and more efficient that any one of us. You can say "shitcoins are dead" a million times, but that doesn't change the fact that Litecoin has a $60M market cap and that people are willing to trade them at ~$1.80 a coin today. This doesn't guarantee that Litecoin will survive in the long run. But one thing I know for sure is that there will always be altcoins.

For those that think Bitcoin and sidechains (pegged Bitcoin) will cause market cap of all altcoins to go to 0, do you also think that all countries should adopt the USD or peg their currency to USD?

* And that is why I work for Coinbase.

Ahh ok, it was another person in here whos handle begins with a D.

Well I mean, you are posting here, I can assume that you are a bitcoin community member .

No, the payment system is being built on Bitcoin, without an anonymous creator there will be plenty of trash and threats to the creator, too many new crypto's are pump & dump/premines. Bitcoin is viable and for anything like micro transactions or lower fees for third world nations Litecoin can take of that.

Just watched Morgan Freeman's latest wormhole, our ocean is alive. One huge life form connected by microbes and a nerve system. There you have it, the God who raised us.

Electromagnetic life forms predates hydrocarbon based life forms billions of years, they exist in the stars, metal cores of planets, galaxies and the vast span of the intergalactic space. They are many orders of magnitude more advanced than us. They are God.

"Hating on gays" is not the way it is supposed to be done. However, even the New Testament is against gays. It's in one of the Corinthian books.

Will gays not be saved? God will judge, but it looks like His judgement will be against them.

The fact that the Old Testament seems to be against women is misleading. Actually, women were being given a gift. They were being settled in a home with a husband to do the exact thing that they were made for... having and raising children. When a woman married, she wasn't responsible for her actions except in the case of adultery. Her husband was responsible for her actions in the community, and she could make him downright miserable if she wanted to.

The O.T. laws were written for the people of Israel because they asked for it at Mount Sinai at the time Moses gave them the Ten Commandments. The other nations weren't being given these law. Only Israel. But the laws are absolutely the best. And they were made to match the customs that Israel had in those times. Most of our present-day nations would be given the laws in different ways than ancient Israel was, just because of our traditions and common law.



You can do Internet searches and find sites with all kinds of Bible verses that show that Jesus is God.



The O.T. teachings were supposed to revolve around two basic laws: Love for God above everything, and love for ones fellow person a much as for himself. The O.T. laws would produce the best living conditions if they were done out of love. The government of Jesus' day had changed the laws to be legalistic things, things without the love. Jesus was simply bringing them back to the love. He abolished nothing.

So in other words your encouraging me to give up my life of peace and embraced a life of intolerance?
For example I have a couple of friends that are gay, *shrug* don't bother me, none of my business. (And no I'm not, I have a wife and kids if your wondering.)

Would I then have to dislike them?

If you notice a small box where there is a coin slot for to take your chance to control the claw machine to grab the plush toys, that's illegal too as the chance is practically 1 out if 10.

Stellar is the future of cryptocurrencies. The fact that people don't notice yet is quite amazing.

The Network does not run on TOR for any of those coins. You're an idiot.

Aren't you a dogecoin community member?

Bagholder isn't necessarily a bad thing. Don't be so hard on yourself.

I'm very pleased to see this coin die every day.
It makes everybody focus on the right thing.
You cannot serve to masters and y'all know who the master is, right.

Are you saying a developer can implement this or that a user can do this to their own client?  If the former, that's the nature of open source software and by that logic the features of all currencies are thus obsolete, and so it's pointless to even bring up.

If you mean the latter, then you are assuming way more technical knowledge than most people have, and you're also ignoring that Tor only works well if it's used 100% consistently, and used entirely within a Tor network, which wouldn't happen if you expect individuals to set it up and run it themselves.

So there is an actual distinction between Tor being built in and always-on, vs a client merely being capable of using it.