Nobody has suggested you are forced to use it.

Yeah, perhaps I was a little extreme.
Okay, two loaves of bread and a croissant.

There is no set time at the moment but don't worry, you'll hear about it when the fork occurs.
The bitcoin update will be announced and those that update will and those that don't want to won't. Everything will still work normally until a block exceeds 1MB (which will be unpredictable.)
If say you had 100 coins before the fork, afterwards you will have 100 coins of 1MB fork and 100 coins of the 20MB. They are NOT interchangeable.
The big question would be then is what chain would you ACCEPT coins from? Obviously anyone with more than 1 braincell would only accept coins as the true bitcoin from the chain the majority have chosen.
If it goes 50/50 however, things could get ugly.

To be fair whatever chain has the majority will take the crown of "bitcoin". I just hope the minority chain has the losing sportsmanship to rename themselves to something other than bitcoin and not sulk.

This is deliberate misinformation.

Bitcoin will just upgrade to a 20MB block cap size instead of the current temporary 1MB one we are using now, as per the original plan.
The so called "MPcoin" cannot be bitcoin because it will have a permanent block cap size and bitcoin has never had a permanent block cap size. It will be just an altcoin, same as all the rest.

Looks like it's trying to evolve and move on to me. But then I don't walk around with my eyes shut.

I wonder if OP is geninuely a dumdum or MP is paying for him to be?

Possibly, but what will $10,000 buy you then? A loaf of bread?

Everybody has a right to a trial and have their side of the story heard.

Only way I can see you avoiding chess computer cheating is by playing a chess variant. Such as swapping the knight and bishop around at the start of the game.
Though I expect people would still be able to adjust the chess engine to do these changes.

Got a feeling your in for a long wait. He's busy working on the core which is important. Talking to you isn't important.

Assuming that the 20MB coin got the majority, why would the 1MB need to be killed off? It would just be another altcoin, such as Litecoin etc...
It could never claim the title of "original bitcoin" because it would have a permanent block size cap and bitcoin has never had a permanent block size cap.

+1

Why is homo homini lupus having a dig at Gavin anyway?Surely he should be questioning his anti-fork leader MP about that PR train crash of an article he posted earlier.

Stop trying to weasel out of your folly and apologise to Gavin for suggesting he was lying.

Yeah I know that.
I did consider pushing the "time and place" for my defense angle, but thought better to just admit defeat on that one as I can think of a few scenarios I could of been dug into a hole.

Win some, you lose some.
*shrug*

Well there's a time and a place but yeah good point. Can't argue with that.

If the minority end up using the 1MB chain, it will become just another altcoin. To my knowledge Gavin doesn't actively engage in destroying altcoins that I'm aware of, unless others know different.
Of course if the minority choose the 20MB, that will become the altcoin.

So not wanting to wade through a bog of cheap shot point scoring scrawl to extract the real content is immature?

Mmmmmmmm.....  
 

Yeah, same old story though. 99% of the post is trying to be witty, insulting people, score browny points, telling us how great he is etc...
I read through a few paragraphs and stopped. Which is shame because there is probably some good arguments buried deep in there somewhere inside.
If he wants to people to take him seriously, he'll need to up his game to a more professional level.

I don't see why the Bitcoin fork would bother you anyway.
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