Definitely one of the weirdest fucking guys around here - and that is no mean feat as bitcoin has plenty of weirdos.

Clearly, this makes Coinbase the enemy of all things open source. 

Yes.  This is all true.  Bank of America pretty much owns Bitcoin now that Satoshi left it for the sharks.

Fuck Satoshi. That lazy fucking guy.

It is absolutely the highest most important task for a CEO to know whether his CFO is a fucking retard without common sense - that's how.  If the CEO does just one thing in his entire career and nothing else at all, he has to know whether the CFO is an idiot.  TOTAL FAIL

Well, now it is worth less than when you bought it!!!  Bummer.  hang on a while, it will be worth even less later.

Open your eyes like mine.  (see Profile pic) then go back and look again.

Here comes the fork!  The first miner running opposition software XT was mined.  This is going to be messy.
http://xtnodes.com/

Right.  What will they do then?  Go work at Visa?  Look, no matter what happens, they will still be crypto guys and they will still be working on something.  New guys are going to come work on the core.  Let them go.  Many of them, like Luke Jr. are dicks anyway. 

Yeah?  What are you a fucking genius?  Why do you think they call it a 'fork'?  Holy shit. 

I know what a hard fork is you plonker - and I am about to stick one in your fucking eye.  This XT thing very likely could lead to a hard fork.  Some hard forks just happen no big deal.  This one is a big deal because it is intentional and done with the purpose of shutting out the guys on the other side of the argument.  That is a big fucking deal. 

Sorry to hurt your beliefs, but I don't believe that.

Who holds the belief that Satoshi is THE expert?  Not me.  I am just saying I'd trust his tie break vote more than a coin toss.  ...or Mike's hard fork.  

Look, here is the deal.  We don't have a conflict resolution scheme.  When we set down the path to resolve an impasse - we are forced to do a hard fork.  Oh fuck.  That is not good.  For now, I'd let a signed message from Satoshi decide.  Then, start working on a new voting system which would let impasses get settled without walking near the cliff that hard forks are.  

You know, all this hub-bub about 8MB blocks is really reduced down to a mere version of a 51% attack.  More accurately, it is a 75% attack.  Instead of one guy getting 51% of hash power, Mike has asked people to cooperatively join his '75% attack'.  When they all do join, they will strengthen their side of the fork and re-write history (the other side).  This is just a well-organized 51% attack.  But I love it.  I am on the side of the bad guys.  I love Mike's XT; despite it being nothing more than a thinly veiled 51% attack.  


This is awesome!  This is Bitcoin's first 51% attack.  And we are witness to it.  Bet you didn't think it would be like this.

I care what he would think because the guy had pretty decent insights when it comes to cryptocurrency.  I could give a shit what he thinks about how to use a hammer.  I don't think he is god, but he certainly did have some appreciable thought on this topic. 

Look - today we have no good solution for deciding an impasse.  A fucking hard fork is pretty dumb.  But that is what we are going to use to settle it.  We could flip a coin.  Or, we could let a guy who had some nice organized thinking on the topic send us a blessed message (signed of course) and go with that.

So, Danny-boy, which do you prefer: hard fork, coin toss, or a signed bit from our mutual buddy ol' Sato?

The real problem isn't XT.  The real problem is that there is no good means to break a serious impasse. 

XT is a tiny problem - many alternatives exist to get bitcoin to scale.  But XT taught us one thing, Bitcoin is extremely fragile when the core devs can't naturally reach agreement in conversation. 

This XT thing will soon blow over and with or without a fork - Bitcoin will go on in good shape. But, someone ought to start thinking about the next thing which will cause a division.  A division which gets a real durable 50%/50% opinion going will destroy Bitcoin I think. 

XT is probably going to win this argument in about 1 hour after the hard fork.  The next round of disagreement probably won't end up the same way. 

We really need Satoshi to sign a tie-breaking message once in a while.  He is a real coward for checking out like he did.  jk

Hey Sato - how about giving the community a little guidance -  eh?  Just a little 'pip' once in a while.  How about if you sign a '1' for yes on XT or a '0' for no on XT?  That would sure help.  Now that Mike invoked your name, it really does fall on you. 

Genesis Mining  - gone.  Another one bites the dust.  Pledge that.

That's a pretty good image.  holy shit.  Could have made him look a bit more scared. 

Do they take bitcoin?

The US could then extradite him.  Put him in a US jail for another 326 years.

Is the fat boy still in jail - or did he bail out?

This is why Donald Trump is going to be the next president.  People are tired of politics bullshit.  Double speak is as bad as double spend.  While Donald Trump is a wild man with his bullshit, he sure doesn't talk like a politician.  It would be funny if he wins.  I wonder what he thinks of bitcoin.  He sure as hell likes money.

That is the US government.  They piss out the campfire.  Someone tells them it was for cooking dinner.  Then they say: 'hey, let's build a fire!' 

Stupid fuckers don't realize it is too late.