Transaction times are the same assuming you pay the appropriate fee (10min per block, 6 confirmation recommendation - maybe higher for BCH due to low realitive hash rate for a SHA256 network), it has lower fees but not by much and that gap will close further with segwit. Basically neither are practical as "cash", thats where things like alt coins and side chains will come in.

I get that you're trying to imply people are only supporting the coin because they have a vested interest in it but lets be logical here, even if you didn't know about the coin before seeing the scam accusations before voicing your opinion for or against it you would have probably (or at least should have) looked into the coin and its details, if after that you believe you want to voice your support for the coin theres a pretty good chance you would also want to claim some free coins.

Sure there might be some who think its a scam but want to cash in by pumping it with fake support but I think for the majorty its far more likely they just want access to the coins of a project they support, to me it seems strange to want to show support for a project and then turn around and say "but na... I dont want any of its coins".

Personally I'm on the fence, the premise seems great but there are some valid concerns so I'll collect my free coins and over the next 40ish weeks of the campaign I'll see how things shake out and how the dev handles himself before investing monetarily. I'm not ready to voice an opinion for or against the project yet but I also dislike seeing people use logical fallacies to try and invalidate others opinions.

1) I dont know what you're reading but this thread is litterally about those trust ratings and their implications. The fact IMO they cannot be trusted invalidates them in my eyes. I.e. I used to see the red numbers next to a persons profile and steer clear now I will just ignore them because I know they cant be trusted.

2) Why not just leave one negative trust rating if you feel so strongly that this is a scam, spamming the trust rating seems like an attack to me and further feeds into why I would no longer trust the trust system here, to me this seems like an abuse of the system. If it were just the one, even though I wouldnt necessarily agree with it, I wouldn't have bothered posting here.

3) Even though I dont know how the default trust network works I know how the trust system in general works and IMO if the people at the "top" of the trust system cant be trusted in my view the whole system cant be trusted.

IMO both sides have some questionable things, crypto-rainbow using the context of an airdrop for a campain and yourself for attacking him with the trust system, there is the miss step of him asking for positive feedback but I see that as an honest mistake trying to ask for help with a broken system when he should have posted here or contacted a mod. It all just seems like something that could have been resolved with an open discourse before jumping stright in with scam accusations and neagtive trust ratings.

At the end of the day this is just my opinion and I cant do anything more than express it in the hopes it will improve things in the future as a trust system that isnt abused could be a great feature but as it stands I feel it can do just as much harm as good.

I hate to say it but to me it seems like children playing games instead of adults trying to build a safe community.

Coinbase said they would credit their customers by the 1st of Janurary 2018 lol

https://blog.coinbase.com/update-on-bitcoin-cash-8a67a7e8dbdf

If I'm reading things right, the next block and the block after will both have difficulty adjustments.

I'm curious, does anyone know why the mempool doesn't empty after some blocks even though there is still a ton of space left in them? Do some miners ignore transactions when the fees are too low or something?

More info would help but I cant help but think you've done something wrong because in that period the mempool was basically empty, I even saw a Tx with a 1 sato fee go through.

I wanted to wait and see how things shook out with regards to DeepOnion which is why I havn't posted anything for or against it yet and view this topic as seperate to the coin itself. I also have had no relationship with or even past knowledge of the dealings of the people inviolved other than the small amount I have read recently in these posts so with that out of the way...

IMO what I see here basically invalidates the trust rating in my eyes, even if there was something a bit more solid to support Laudas feedback 3 negative feedbacks in 5 days is just an attack, I dont know how the default trust network is determined but if this were my forum and I had control over it Lauda would be imediately removed from said network.

My 2c.

Totally just sitting here with a big ass grin on my face  

Its probably a bit steep to hold for long though.

I believe it has to do with the time to download, verify and construct a new block after one has been mined, with large blocks this takes longer giving the mining pool who found the last block an advantage over others because it already knows what transactions are in the current block and can move straight on to starting to mine the next. The idea behind segwit is it increases capacity of a block (on average roughly 2 times depending on the trasactions that make up the block I think) without increasing block size and in turn verification time, if I understand correctly.

It doesn't go straight down but you have a 20 hour wait to transfer your BCH which is why things aren't equalising yet, arbitrage really isn't a good option at the moment you might as well just get your coins on the highest value exchange, sell and either short or wait for things to bottom out at which point transfers will probably be running quicker and all the exchanges will be back to much the same price.

Doing it once, especially when BCH is on a down trend, doesn't make much sense to me, you still have a many hour wait to get that BCH back to the exchange thats trading at a higher value and at that point it'll probably be lower than your buy in price.

Segwit changes the data format so transactions can take up less space in a block, you are thinking of the lightning network I think whcich setles transactions off chain.

Transfers are so slow theres basically no arbirtage once the difficulty settles (and miners stop dropping off) the prices will equalise (and probably tank).

https://cash.coin.dance/blocks

I dont know how accurite this is but right now it says its 2.63 times more profitable to be mining BTC instead of BCH.

Also would you consider moving the snapshot block and pre-announcing it? After the BTC/BCH fork settled I moved a bunch of coins back onto exchanges that I doubt I'll be able to get private keys for and I'm sure I wont be the only one.

Ahh that makes more sense, I didn't realise you were taking the blockchain snapshot at a point before launch instead of at launch

Buckle your seatbelts

Am I missunderstanding or are you crazy? In what world would users willingly give their private keys to a third party?

Nice to see ZCL moving in the right direction again, and the market in general for that matter, a bit of money starting to free up now the BCH claims have been made