the bitcoin nodes can be run by anybody who wants, you can go to bitcoin.org and download bitcoin core But the bitcoin core that you downloaded is controlled by GMaxwell and Blockstream and you will be running whatever code they say is good for you. You will be their bitch and you will be using your computer to advance their stupid lightning network and SegWit bullshit that is all part of some stupid alt coin that IS NOT BITCOIN. Just because everyone thinks: "well, this is bitcoin core, it must be bitcoin" - that is complete bullshit. Lightning and SegWit are very stupid alts that do nothing but advance Blockstream's private hold on bitcoin. Don't be a dumbfuck - think with your brain. Don't support 'bitcoin core' which has turned into GMaxwell's personal cryptocurrency project just because he can pull the wool over the eyes of a small number of Chinese miners. (not a very hard thing to do since those Chinese miners have very slitty eyes in the first place. You don't need a lot of wool to cover those tiny slits.) |
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The common sense would tell us that stealing is illegal. It does not matter what somebody steals.
What if someone steals your 'idea' - is that illegal according to your dumb analysis. What about 'time', what if someone steals your time? is that illegal? According to your rule, it is. But according to the real law time is not tangible so stealing someone's time is not illegal. Bitcoin is also intangible. Therefore, you can steal it all day long and you are just manipulating bit patterns on a crazy continuous list of similar bit patterns. It is not illegal to put some bit patterns on the blockchain. If that has the effect of 'stealing bitcoin' - it is just tough shit for the guy who lost them - but it is not illegal. |
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I am not surprised to see this kind of journalism on Bitcoin coming from a source like this. You have to remember the editor will have to be more knowledable about the subject for them to approve the articles, and in many instances these editors are even more clueless than the journalist writing the article, so the editor do not want to look stupid, and he just accepts what the journalist is feeding them.  But the editor could contact a bitcoin expert and pay him $1000/hr to ask: "Is the OK, or bullshit". In two minutes the bitcoiner can say this is bullshit. So, for a cost of $33 (two minutes) the editor can have a decent story with integrity. Next time you read a story on a completely different topic, one in which you are not an expert, just remember it is also likely to be extreme bullshit too. Integrity is long gone from reporting. Journalism today does not include even a tiny obligation to be correct. |
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Say what you like, but bitcoin has no scaling solution. Nothing.
SegWit is a miserable load of junk that only improves blocksize slightly IF everyone recodes wallets and nodes and everything else.
Lightning Network which isn't even bitcoin but a very complex new network of multi-layers, isn't going to be working for another two years, if at all.
Bitcoin Unlimited is Bitcoin, but Blockstream is preventing its use because they own the keys to commit access.
The whole thing is REKT. Bitcoin is dead. But, it was a very cool fun thing while it lasted.
Meanwhile, R3 and many others are off building very high performance interesting systems while GMaxwell has his thumb in his butt and ruining everything with a view to bringing profits to a private entity.
If you think Bitcoin is not dead, you are blind or really dumb.
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Hard forks are good. Stop crying. They allow two discrete paths to flourish and see which works best. Too freaking bad if some of your juice gets stuck on the 'bad' chain. On fork day, you've got equal action on both chains. Make good decisions thereafter. No harm, no foul.
Let's do it NOW!!!!
Fork it already.
Who`s crying?I don`t understand. Folks are saying a hard fork is 'dangerous'. It is only dangerous for the undesirable prong. |
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Yes, ups and downs are most common for any commodity, Blockchain fees are only going up. Expensive transactions means less use. Already big projects like Brave Browser that had a micropayments model are totally fucked. Many other cool micropayments projects are also dead. Soon the whole thing is dead too. All this so Blockstream can offer to sell you access to their proprietary high transaction bandwidth Lightning network. Artificial problem was created so they can sell you an unneeded solution. The system got mugged. |
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Oh - you got nothing? Unsurprised.
I think the Bitcoin Foundation is now being converted over to a pedophile organization. |
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The quality of the comments here are so fucking low it hurts. I hate the people in here. They are always asking about how to get women and porn to use more bitcoin. Fuckin' stupid if you ask me.
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Stealing is not illegal.
Is stealing someone's thought illegal? No.
Is stealing someone's heart illegal? No.
Is stealing someone's idea illegal? Not really.
Is stealing someone's parking space illegal? No.
Bitcoin is just like a parking space, thought, idea, heart. Stealing it is not illegal.
Only stealing things like cars which are made out of hard assed material is illegal.
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If you are so hell bent on trying to sink these guys, get a team together and create alternative and see if the majority rather wants to support your version. ^hmmmm^
The majority, by far, wants >2MB. But you and your Blockstream idiots keep pointing to that little point knowing that you've been able to 'trick' the system by having just one guy (1Meg Greg) convince a few scared whimpy Chinese miners to keep mining their bullshit version. 1Meg Greg and Blockstream have achieved control over a centralized system. If 20,000 bitcoiners all had CPU miners going today and there were no ASICS, the blocksize would surely be 8Mb and Greg and his fucktard team would have control of nothing at all. Bitcoin unfortunately has become centralized and the bad actors at the top keep control all the while they say "well a majority would switch if it were such a good idea!" which is complete bullshit. Once the entire mining capacity got under the control of just a few superminers - it became very easy to manipulate the system. Today it is laughable that you say "well gee, a majority says they want small blocks." Small blocks do one thing: drive the demand for the sidechain product Blockstream is building. Blockstream has successfully corrupted the network and eliminated decentralization. |
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the current ACTUAL debate is consensual '2base-4mbweight' buffer increase by EVERYONE in the community releasing an implementation. so that fans of any implementation can all happily stick with their favourites and still have the open choice to decentrally vote in or out of a safe increase of capacity, while not hindering segwit either, or having to change to another "brand"
yes this means the quadratics doomsday is also a moot point because segwit still gets to work
I honestly have read this post three times by now, and still fail to understand what you've wanted to say with it. Not because of "technicalities", but because the flawed construct of all those sentences. You should really rephrase everything. in short core releasing 0.13.2a with 1base 4weight AND releasing 0.13.2b with 2base 4weight that way core fanboys dont have to defect away from core to get real capacity, they can choose freely while remaining with core dream team that way the community as a whole have an open choice without having any bias that way you can finally be happy of your dream team having code for all the features the community have been requesting. that way you can chill out your doomsdays because core is no longer vetoing the 2mb base option, to cause controversy now with change of guard at Blockstream, maybe the pro fork people can get a little more momentum going and 'get 'er done' |
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the hypocrisy is loud with core fanboys.
Yayayo is a real nut job. Don't know where they got him from. |
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There are only two possible reasons for attacking the current work of Core developers and blockstream:
1) Trying to put Bitcoin under centralized control;
2) lack of technical understanding.
ya.ya.yo!
Exactly how long have you been sucking their dicks? Blockstream owning bitcoin is not 'preserving decentralization'. It is bullshit. Core/Blockstream needs to die yesterday for trying to take over control - ' to prevent others from taking over control'. Fucking idiots should have to pay twice in blockchain fees. YaYaYo should probably pay three times. |
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OP, how much code did you write for any project as proof of your value? Looking at your post history, it seems as though you only moan and bitch about Bitcoin and bring nothing positive to the table. These trolls/shills are only a pain in the ass. The Blockstream people are adding a lot of value, and they are trying to make a difference. < Positive or negative, depending on what side you are looking from >
I side against the pessimists of this world. ^LoL^
Idiot. Making negative value is fucked up. Blockstream has ruined bitcoin. If I wrote ZERO lines of code - it would be far better than the contribution that 1MB blocksize freeze has done. Blockstream ruined bitcoin so everyone would pay them fees to have their transactions on a proprietary side chain. These guys are 100% bullshit - and now their boss is fired. Finally. Still think my code is less than theirs? |
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Ding-dong the witch is dead. Good fuckin' riddance. Now, we've just got to find some way to kill Blockstream entirely. Owning Bitcoin is just not a good business plan. Hopefully Adam will wind down the company in quick time.
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While I can agree that "Bitcoin governance is a joke". It seems that bitcoin developer are not on point with all changes, consensus, increasing BTC network capabilities.
But I don't agree on everything else. Microsoft can be blinded by ETH as everyone else who fell for their marketing mumbo jumbo but ETH will never be the boss.
Greg Maxwell's idea of consensus is totally corrupted. There is no decentralization in bitcoin. If Greg Maxwell says 'do it this way', then that is how it is done. |
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No problem at all. Your friends private key in on this website right here: directory.ioYou can just go there, get the key, and then transfer the bitcoins. |
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 Interesting, freedom of choice  no one will force you to run a software... never. For every bitcoin you have, you will now have one bitcoin, and one bitcoin classic! May the best coin win! |
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Already heard a lot of posts like this, better use some other words. Bitcoin has faced lot of tough times, still it succeeds. On the other hand, we can say Altcoins may die.
I like your word that btc has faced tough times that is much more applicable rather than keep on saying that bitcoin is already dead. And we all know that it is not going to happen as bitcoin is going to be tougher for having a lot of investors that supports it. Especially there are lot more that are trying to consider the use of bitcoin in their industry. The infrastructure of the bitcoin is still being built. More people are aware of the bitcoin. So its price will rise. Price rise, price fall. It doesn't matter. It started as a decentralized system. Now it is fully controlled by about three or four guys and mostly Greg Maxwell of Blockstream. Since it is not a decentralized system any longer, the bitcoin is dead. The price is just a silly number that reflects the beliefs of the masses. The price has no bearing whatever on the notion that the decentralized system that once existed, exists no longer. The Bitcoin is dead. |
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