Stealing bitcoins is good.  Not illegal.

All you are really doing anyway is adding some numbers to a ledger on other people's computers.   This is totally OK.  Thus stealing bitcoin is not even illegal.  It is good. 

Hey Lauda, do you take drugs?

Moron.  Unmitigated, complete moron.  

Go ahead, bury your head in the sand.  That is the normal response from morons who don't want to see anything other than their own stupid ideas on matters.

Fork is not dangerous.  Fork is good.

Fork is an opportunity for everyone to vote.  

Preventing a fork is Greg Maxwell's way to assure Blockstream will soon be forcing everyone to pay 'sidechain fees'.  Preventing a fork assures that Greg Maxwell can continue making all decisions as he likes without regard for the opinions of others.

To be clear, by holding back the fork, Core is preventing the vote.  If we fork, then the true voting can occur. 

Not forking - is the problem. 

In Satoshi's view, a fork is very readily available everyday.  Anyone can fork and forking is good.  Now, the fork action is prevented because of collusion of miners and Core.  With no fork, no consensus. 

So you get what we have right here.  I don't like it any more than you do.  But, that's the way Maxwell wants it, so he gets it. 

Hard forks are necessary and good and they operate to permit everyone to vote on a best system.  Avoiding forks destroys Bitcoin.   

Fork the son-of-a-bitch. 

The only way Maxwell can keep control despite the very large number of people that want large blocks is by preventing the fork by spreading forking FUD and convincing the miners to stay.  He was successful.  Now, we have a system where Maxwell rules - not consensus rules.  It's not Bitcoin any longer.  It's MaxwellCoin

Who cares about the price?  Why is it an objective to 'get the price up'?  Very stupid.  Let's get the functionality up.  

Let's fork it two times - or three times.  Everyone will have the same tokens on each chain to start with.  Then, one chain will prove to be more reliable and higher performing that the others.  Then Greg Maxwell can go take his Blockstream shitchain with Lightning Liquid side crap to hell where it belongs.  Blockstream wants to own Bitcoin.  I say fork it and let them have their silly side chain project.  The 'other' chain with 8MB will take off and on chain scaling will live forever after.

Only Blockstream gets hurt by a fork.  Fork it!

I am always right.  I thought I made a mistake once, but it turned out to be correct.  

Who controls the Bitcoins?  Greg Maxwell.  Everyone knows that.

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.

Blockstream has ruined Bitcoin forever.  It is dead.  Blockstream is controlled by just about two or three people and they control just about 9 or 10 Chinese miners.  There is no decentralization.  Your fantasy about community consensus is just ridiculous at this point.  

Bitcoin is dead.  Dead and fucked.

Don't Hodl, Sodl. 

But it has been taken over by a few miners who listen to every thing Core/Blockstream tells them.  Bitcoin is no longer decentralized.  Bitcoin is dead. 

It is now Blockstream coin.  The take-over was successful.  That take-over is complete now.

Gary Johnson doesn't know what Aleppo is, I doubt is he can actually back anything other than is lawn mower into the garage.

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for when I came to bitcointalk!!!

I've been saying this all along.

That is what they said about Rock and Roll - and now it is dead too.

lol - cracks me up every time.  Look at Yuji Nakamura  twitter: ynakamura56; and Lulu Yilun Chen twitter: luluyilun.

How fucking dumb and wrong can you get?!  lol.  



Here is their story on Bitcoin keys/hack.  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-11/bitcoin-hack-upends-world-of-700-yields
There is so much wrong in here, clearly their boss has made no effort whatever to be sure this isn't crap.  They just write whatever they want.  

Journalism is at the lowest integrity level of all time.


"Every bitcoin is created with a private key" - No.  This is not true.  Misrepresents the nature between keys and bitcoin.  Should be keys and addresses.

"Every time bitcoin is sent, the private key changes its value"  - lol  No.  Not true.  A private key never changes its value.  

"So you cannot re-use old private keys."  lol.  No. Wrong again.  Totally wrong.

"Multi signature effectively breaks each private key into multiple pieces."  No.  Not true.  Not even close to true!

"You need a majority of the pieces to move the bitcoin"  Not true.  Totally false.  Multi sig and do a 2/10 for example.  

Journalists don't even bother trying at all to get it right.  Any competent proof reader would have told these two buffoons they are idiots.  Quit making shit up!  If you want to be a writer, you have to write stuff that is true.  Don't just make up a bunch of shit and publish it as if it were true.  These writers have no understanding whatever of bitcoin keys.  They need to go do a story on flowers.  Bloomberg should be embarrassed to put their name on such low grade garbage.

That's the same as rape, pillage and murder in Russia - its banned, but it doesn't stop anyone from doing it.  Fucking Russians are idiots, that is why it is banned there.  Anything that prevents the Russian government from crawling up your ass and ripping your guts out - is illegal there.  You must submit.  Don't worry, Russians are used to getting fucked in the ass.  They've been gettin' that all their lives. 

You have a point.  His 'closeness' to previous scams says he did it.  I'll bet .5BTC he will be in jail in less than 6 months.  Even the US will try to get him because they have already been close to him in the past.  Good chance he won't survive this theft. 

It had a pretty good run.  Now we move on to something else.  Finally.

There is also a bizzare irony to all of this.  Since BFX is issued on Omni, you can use their desktop wallet http://www.omnilayer.org/download.html#download to trade them on a decentralize exchange.  Therefore, for safety, use a decentralized exchange to trade your new BFX which is really just debt from a centralized exchange hack.