You know I think we get your position by now.

You personally (aka "the market") aren't happy and until everyone does it your way the whole world is full of idiots that just don't grok the universe like you do.

People here still falling for that Trolfi schilling? 

It seems he's absolutely intent on getting his face in the dictionary right next to the word "disingenuous".  Real academics and scientists look for facts that challenge their assumptions.  Trolfi's only here to point out things he thinks back his own agenda and, unless you press his buttons just right, he usually does such a fine job of pretending he's earnest, sincere and objective that people keep falling for it.

In short, in spite of the fact that he occasionally points out something useful or says something vaguely intelligent, it's just camouflage for his nonsense and he can be safely ignored.  He's such a proficient troll that he's quoted far more than he should be so you're unlikely to miss anything anyway.

Hearn's biggest problem, and one of Bitcoin's biggest headaches right now, is simply his ego.  He's taken his minority position and tried to redefine consensus.  Whilst it's true that the core team needed more persistent and effective pressure - call it lobbying - about increasing the block size sooner rather than later, XT is just an impatient ego-driven power play.  I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on whether or not that was his original intent but we are where we are.

Just my thoughts FWIW.

A fine case well argued. 

Really hard to sell without a buyer. 

Word.

Gentlemen. 

Nice.   

Desperate much?

 

Given the number of, shock horror, foreign users, I'd be astounded if US agencies weren't already using that excuse to read anything they wanted that's stored on these servers, subpoenas or no. 

Start here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4044364/

roflz  

Ta 4 lulz. 

A little off-topic I suppose () but does anyone grok why Huobi always seems to have more dirty laundry than OKCoin?

Thanks. 

Right.  And, not for the first time I'm reminding you that straw man arguments such as "those who claim that bitcoin will be the solution to poverty, corruption, fraud, bank abuse, oppression, censorship, etc., etc.. " are bullshit and I'm calling you on it.  Again.  I know hundreds of people within this community both on the technical and financial side and I can't think of a single one of them that sees it in the way as you're trying to paint it here.  Not one.  

It's a tool.  Like I said in my previous post, you're deliberately, disingenuously conflating tool and solution.  I know you're smarter than that hence my facetious tone.

Some tools, like crossbows for example, are known to have levelled the playing field somewhat between the previously empowered and the disenfranchised.  No longer did you need to be a trained full time professional belonging to a paid standing army to be useful on the battlefield.

Some tools, like surveillance databases, armoured cars and the like are known to have been of more use to those with privilege and power than those without.  Did we throw out computers because IBM helped the nazis track dissidents and minorities with their punched card technology?

Some tools, like hammers, are just tools and, as you've astutely pointed out, can be used to almost equal effect by anyone wielding them.  They are used to build both labour camps and hospitals.

The Internet is a tool that can be used by anyone for almost any purpose but, generally speaking, a society with ubiquitous access to a free and open Internet is a greater threat to the .1% than to the rest of us.

There's a possibility that Bitcoin is like a hammer.  Just a tool that anyone can use for better or for worse.  That's certainly how it looks right now.  But I suspect Bitcoin is more like the Internet.  Anyone can indeed use it but, generally, the level playing field its widespread adoption presents would be something very threatening indeed.  

As you've also said, they'll try to ban it, control it etc.  We're watching that.  It's fun.

You're certainly old enough to remember the painful death throes of the old guard music industry and how it flapped about and sued the hell out of anyone that moved in an effort to forestall the inevitable change that the Internet was bringing to their business models.

Well that ended in a complete overhaul of the industry in spite of their best, and most cunning efforts.  

But we know, for whatever reason, that you've closed your mind to anything positive about Bitcoin and are determined to repeat ad nauseam negative arguments regardless of whether anyone's shot them down or not so if it were just the two of us here, I'd certainly save my breath.

The key here really is that Bitcoin is a disruptive technology and if anything needed disrupting, it's the current global financial industry and the frankly horrific level of global inequality that it supports.  

If you'll forgive me, and I'm sure you will, I'm going to put you back on ignore now.  It's not like you ever say anything you haven't said before in one way or another.  

Well done Professor.  You now understand what a tool is and the difference between that and a solution.

I understand what a tool is too.  That's why you're usually still on ignore.

Gosh, people are still giving this dinosaur attention?

Solution != Tool.  Typical slippery Trolfi.

Ask anyone that has used a passer-by's phone camera footage to achieve justice how they feel about technology.  What's naive is 20th century mindsets thinking that the status quo is permanent.  What happened to EMI again?

Somebody should invent something.