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1  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: PoS for voting on blocksize limit? on: March 29, 2017, 01:06:43 AM
Someone else in another forum posted this and It articulates what I have been trying to say

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In a way, yes, but I'd much prefer exchanges holding power than miners holding power. The reason is that exchanges are much more directly reliant on users and will feel the effects of angry users much more acutely.
With miners, the only way to really kick them is to sell all your coins and even then it only works if you do it at the same time as many others and it fails entirely if enough others see it as an opportunity to buy.
With exchanges ... well, if you don't like how one exchange is using their power? Well, find one that uses their power the way you prefer and move your business there. The market will immediately punish them for stupidity. With miners, you can't really punish a single miner, you either punish all of them or none of them so stupidity has to spread quite wide before it makes sense to kick them.
2  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: PoS for voting on blocksize limit? on: March 29, 2017, 12:11:31 AM
I don't really see a difference between this and mining pools that have chosen to support BU. In both cases there is a large entity using their clients to vote one way or another. At least with a PoS voting system I dont have to spend $200 on an asics on top of the $$ I have invested in BTC to get a vote if I want one.
3  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: PoS for voting on blocksize limit? on: March 28, 2017, 11:33:24 PM
Is that a problem though? Their business relies on bitcoin doing well.

Also, what kind of percentage of the total coins are actually in exchanges? I tried doing some research but couldn't readily find any solid numbers.
4  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / PoS for voting on blocksize limit? on: March 28, 2017, 10:57:38 PM
Not quite 4 years ago there was a post on here that described how you could use a Proof-of-Stake voting system to vote on things like the blocksize limit.

You can read that post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=230864.0;all

Why did this concept die?? I cant see much of a downside, and at this point, 4 years later, this looks like the most sane way to achieve "Consensus" for things that would force a hard fork.
5  Economy / Service Discussion / Buy Any Coin - A simple way to buy many different cryptocurrencies on: June 10, 2015, 06:45:33 AM
Hey Everyone,

I recently learned of a cool new product being worked on called BuyAnyCoin. They are working to make cryptocurrencies very easy to buy by creating and selling gift cards which can be redeemed for many different coins on their website.

Gift cards are everywhere and very easy to buy and use. It would require very little effort on the users end to simply go to a grocery store or a radio shack etc and buy a gift card which can then later be redeemed for one of several cryptocurrencies.

They are looking for $10,000 to help get the project off the ground and have started up an indegogo campaign:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/buyanycoin-buying-bitcoin-now-easier-than-ever

While I am not a part of this project I have actually met these guys, as they are based in my home town, and have been pretty impressed with their work.
6  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Buy Any Coin - A simple way to buy many different cryptocurrencies on: June 10, 2015, 06:34:08 AM
Hey Everyone,

I recently learned of a cool new product being worked on called BuyAnyCoin. They are working to make cryptocurrencies very easy to buy by creating and selling gift cards which can be redeemed for many different coins on their website.

Gift cards are everywhere and very easy to buy and use. It would require very little effort on the users end to simply go to a grocery store or a radio shack etc and buy a gift card which can then later be redeemed for one of several cryptocurrencies.

They are looking for $10,000 to help get the project off the ground and have started up an indegogo campaign:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/buyanycoin-buying-bitcoin-now-easier-than-ever

While I am not a part of this project I have actually met these guys, as they are based in my home town, and have been pretty impressed with their work.
7  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [POLL] Please give your opinion on increasing the block size limit on: June 02, 2015, 04:01:22 PM
Thanks for the "Free Research" guys. Im going to go off and sleep with my faggot boyfriend from the NSA....

But seriously, I have a new account because I honestly hate all the fucking trolls here that tell you to go stick your dick in a blender no matter what you decide to post. Until now I have felt no need to join this community. I still do not particularly like this community but I DO want to know more about what people think on this issue.
8  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [POLL] Please give your opinion on increasing the block size limit on: June 02, 2015, 02:30:17 AM
Nobody gives a shit, go suck a dick or something dumbass

https://i.imgur.com/9mvknIC.gifv
9  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Anti-fork guys: What is YOUR proposal? on: June 02, 2015, 01:52:35 AM
Take action automatically if blocks have been, on average since the last difficulty adjustment more than 62% full, for instance increase the allowed block size next difficulty adjustment. If they are less than 38% full verse via decrease it. Use the same controller software now in place for difficulty to maintain fullness of blocks ~50%.

I would have to take much longer to ponder the consequences but I really like the Idea of maintaining the fullness of blocks at ~50%.
10  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / [POLL] Please give your opinion on increasing the block size limit on: June 02, 2015, 01:27:31 AM
Hello,

I have created a survey with google forms as a quick way to get a survey of what people think about this discussion.

You can fill out the quick survey here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18vPChze0QncArYA77QKE7iUNAiN3iTTWjDiqWKyV4pM/viewform

Here is an overview of the results: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18vPChze0QncArYA77QKE7iUNAiN3iTTWjDiqWKyV4pM/viewanalytics

Here is the actual table of results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HWtYjrG7up8CY-pmIOVqLJo1qn5V9o4npVQm_KR0HWA/edit?usp=sharing

Feel free to share this survey and do whatever analysis you want with the results. I am not a statistician so I will not be analyzing this data personally, however I am interested in the results.

Thanks
11  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! on: April 03, 2015, 11:19:29 PM
Someone mentioned this on reddit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%27s_Opening
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