Heheh can't believe you still around poking bulls. Are you now pursuing a solo career since your other half left you to go troll for Bitcoin.com 'professionally'?

Dude. BCash (LOL) is a scam. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few scams in my time.

That clock is still ticking...

Cardano copied Dash's Instamine and 100% centralized development.

It's not "picking on solowhizkid" to ask that he respect the rules of the forum.  Why do you always have to rush to play the victim card?

As I already said, he should consolidate his string of #Dash_Spam_Force posts.

This isn't hard.  Why are you trying to make it sound like a simple request is something unreasonable?

I'm not the only one saying this.  Your fellow DashHoles aleix and BigR also noticed the #Dash_Spam_Force #DashSpam is once again getting out of control.

It's obnoxious for Dash to pay people to spam and Astroturf.  Knock it off.

I simply agree with aleix and BigR that the #DashForceSpam is out of hand.  10 posts (replete with repetitive #DashSpamForce flair) in a row should be reported and removed if the poster refuses or neglects to consolidate them.

Is that an unreasonable request?  Or are you just trying to deflect legitimate criticism by changing the subject to Price Speculation blabbering?

Limiting airdrops to the most well-distributed forks of BTC, IE LTC and DCR, allows for more code reuse than designing/writing/testing another redemption mechanism for ETH, which is based on entirely different code and crypto primitives.

But if Stone did support airdrop for ETH we could use it for ETC too.

I have no idea how bolting ring sigs onto XRB compares to the existing plan.  That's crypto-magic way above my hat size and is entirely the dev's call.

This is pretty much my investment thesis as well, but what about Lightning?  Wouldn't that also tie Bitcoin to the digital economy's GPG?

Happy Skepticism Sunday! 

I hope this distribution is not set is stone (sorry for bad pun ).

Why grant paid spammers twice as much as allocated to development?  Do you really want to emphasize Astroturf marketing over development and wind up like Dash?

According to Cardano's Ouroboros research, an honest initial distribution pattern is critical to maintaining the integrity of a Proof-of-Stake system going forward.

Your schema could be tweaked to allow a much longer, fatter tail by expanding the airdrop to LTC and DCR.  That would bring in vastly more participants than BTC and XRB alone, which enhances the probability of achieving an honest staking voter base which cannot be compromised by a handful of BTC and XRB whales.

Good to know.  Thanks again for the valuable info!

Went for fluffypony's domination tweets, couldn't find them.    I'm guessing the word "fungible" was applied liberally directly to the tweetstorm.

The butthurt of the Bitcoin Maximalist Supremacist Monopolists is in direct proportion to the cognitive dissonance they suffer from watching their analytical frameworks fail to be validated with predictive power.

The canonical example (besides Frap.doc's anti-altcoin rantings here) is Daniel Krawisz's obscenely inaccurate exaggeration of "The Coming Demise of the Altcoins" (http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/the-coming-demise-of-altcoins/).

For such a smart guy, he really screwed the pooch on this one.  But then again, so did Blockstream's (not-coincidentally former) Head of Strategy.

Let's all laugh at how wrong whiny little Daniel's bigoted expectations have proven to be!

Isn't it impressive how absolutely convinced he is of his own hilariously incorrect assumptions?


I guess the new altcoins didn't get the memo huffily declaring why it was impossible for them to survive, given the (admittedly flakey) Bitcoin Domination Index's sustained collapse to a humiliating (in the literal sense of more humility and less hubris) 33%.  It's past time to rename that figure to either the Bitcoin Submission Index, or the Altcoin Domination Index.

Saifedean and Frap.doc, unlike Krawisz before them, right off the bat fail to account for Namecoin, the OG alt partially created and thus Blessed with propriety directly from Satoshi.

These overeducated derps failure of imagination was completely predictable.  Here is a simple substitution exposing the paltry tissue of bad faith on which rests the entirety of Krawisz's line of argumentation.


QED the Never-Alters were wrong to begin with, comporting with the consensus reality that emphasizes this fact every day in which alts persist in their domination of Bitcoin. 

Great way to create a conflict of interest.  Now Dragan Boscovic, who is a notorious Dash pumper, suffers from perverse incentives to steer clear of any research showing Dash is obsolete digital trash compared to the latest version of Bitcoin and more advanced blockchain schemata like Monero and Cardano.

The fact MIT sponsors a couple of Core devs has little to no bearing on BTC as a whole, but since she brought it up let's unpack the compounded false representations and insinuations within her misleading propaganda.

Tante's analysis is flawed because she does not take into account the fact Dash simply copies and pastes most of its code from Bitcoin Core.

The idea MIT "could theoretically attempt to influence" Bitcoin Core is absurd on its face given the fact Core successfully resisted much larger pressures brought to bear in the XT, Unlimited, Classic, and (especially) Segwit2X initiatives.

Then there is the fact Arizona State is a shit-tier CS school that isn't even a backup choice for the best and brightest budding devs.

On the other hand, MIT is literally the top ranked CS school *in the entire world*.

Don't believe me, check the objective rankings for yourself: http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/computer-science-engineering.html

It's a shame ASU grad's EECS degrees will be worth less when the inevitable collapse of the Dash HYIP Ponzi scheme collapses and via association tarnishes the reputation of the admittedly improving CS department.

But hey, more power to Dragan Boscovic for successfully riding the Blockchain Hype Gravy Train as long and as hard is possible.  Not a bad outcome for a dude who couldn't get a job at any Uni ranked above number 150.

Still, it's poor form to be taking pot shots at MIT and Core given the fact Dash copies and pastes most of its code from Core's repo.  Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

Let's hope he can fix Dash's outstanding transaction malleability problem (so they may someday enable Lightning payment channels), or perhaps enable the IPv6 solution promised many, many moons (IE >1 year) ago but never delivered and all but forgotten about, or maybe even improve the horrendously slow/expensive/unreliable performance of Dash's PrivateSend.

Great explanation, thanks!

From a UX perspective, what are the trade-offs (in terms of phone battery life, confirmations, etc.) of running an XCN client vs mining my personal Raiblock sidechain in order to buy a couple of pizzas or a cup of coffee?

Any idea or guesstimate where the tps top out, all else being equal (IE same number of users on the same mix of hardware)?

It's *always* endless drama here in cryptoland.   

Now even the Collectibles sub, our beloved, serene preserve of gentlemanly numismatic pursuits, is being thrown into turmoil.

Sooner or later Cointelegraph will write an article about l'affaire Anacs, and we will have to deal with Eternal September like the rest of the forum.

Thanks for finally doing a bit of self-policing in your community's thread.  You and BigR are right, the #DashForceSpam astroturfing is completely out of hand.  Didn't TaoOfSpamtoshi already get sent to time-out for that?

Would it be asking too much for you guys to also push back against and/or report the explicitly disallowed Price Speculation posts?

If you need an example to emulate, the Monero community provides that leadership by ruthless culling their [ANN] thread of price speculation and keeping it corralled in a purpose-specific thread in the appropriate Price Speculation sub.

It makes the Dash community look sloppy and careless to have so many price speculation posts ruining the signal/noise ratio here, in the sub designated for [ANN] level important info.

I know you guys pride yourselves on the high post count (taking your small victories where you find them, eh?) but not all thread bumping posts are equal to others.

If you need to artificially inflate your [ANN] post count with price speculation, that isn't a good look for your coin nor its lethargic community.

Thanks for indulging the Meta.  Now let's get back to discussing the Instamine and total lack of communication regarding Evolution falling more than two years behind schedule!  

many people do not understand hilarity of this magnitude takes a lot of time

Hi Pallas, I'm pleased to see you are still enjoying working on this groundbreaking yet sadly underperforming and all but forgotten project.

I wish we had rebranded to Minicoin when we had the chance (and I wasted money grabbing the domains on behalf of the community).

Too bad TPTB refused to listen to reason when we mere users in the peanut gallery explained why Cryptonite is such a godawful, counterproductive, self-defeating name for the project.

Anyway....

I would very much appreciate it if you could ELI5 the difference between the mini-blockchain and a DAG (like Raiblocks).

In my dim, filthy casual understanding, XCN's mini-blockchain is somehow kind of like a type of proto-DAG but I'm having difficulty analyzing and articulating the technical bits.

TIA for educating and uplifting.

Your baffling inability to use the forum's Search function isn't relevant to Bcash (LOL), except for the part I pointed out regarding Bcash (LOL)'s embarrassingly persistent lack of support for segwit and Lightning.

There are tons of segwit and Lightning threads on Reddit, EG https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7rceo8/one_lightning_network_tx_is_18000_times_cheaper/.

Segwit is a fairly abstruse low-level feature; ideally it should be transparent to blissfully ignorant end-users.  Segwit is only high-profile because bad actors like Coinbase and Gemini are dragging their feet and making themselves appear incompetent by procrastinating instead of adopting the beneficial new tech in a timely manner, to the detriment of their paying customers and the network as a whole.

For over a year, Bitcoin Core has been very actively trying to help people adopt the wonderful segwit and Lightning technology which vastly lowers fees and dramatically speeds up transactions.

Where have you been?  How could you have possibly missed it?  I can only presume the source of your sour grapes grumbling is displaced anger at yourself for missing the boat on those obvious, well-publicized, high-profile efforts.

The segwitter community you seek is called "Bitcoin Core."  You have found it already.  You're already here, soaking in it and yet complaining all the while.

It's very odd you choose to pipe up about segwit and Ligntning in the one place we reserve (like a short bus) for our 'special' Bcash (LOL) retrogrades.

One experiences the supreme satori of Brother Satoshi and sits at his side in the Council Of Light.

All illusory notions of separateness, being mere cognitive artifacts, dissipate and the process of Universe, which has no beginning and thus no ending, unfolds in its manifold splendor and recedes at the speed of entanglement as awareness expands to fill the infinite Void beyond Creation.

The screaming of the One Holy Electron is resolved into heavenly music which forms dazzling standing waves as it orbits the primordial Instantaton in all places and at all times.

Then one gets hungry and goes to the kitchen, seeking sustenance of a tasty nature as well as beverages of a frosty, refreshing, and/or adult nature, and remembers to check Coinmarketcap for the latest XMR Moons and Dumps, perhaps pausing to find amusement in the eternal drama of Bitcointalk and the self-righteous wailing of the Bcash subreddit.

At least that is how it works for me.  YMMV.

That is not normal.  There must be some sort of fuckery aboot.  ANACS knows you can easily light very hot BBB and/or FTC and/or Postal Police and/or Letter of Demand fires under their asses.

In B4 ANACS graded slabs become more collectible than the underlying [name of your favorite crypto-collectible].