Show proof or evidence of the spam source being Blockstream, or is that just BS plucked out of the air?
A fee market can stop spam, price out the spammers and move the trivial low value transactions to 2nd tier.
We don't need every coffee transaction stored on the blockchain.

Segwit is not the answer but it is a stepping stone that should have been implemented a long time ago, the miners holding it back have stifled development and are totally to blame for this temporary stagnation.

ByteBall airdrop has been reduced to 1/10 of previous amounts in the next round.
Which is only 0.00625 GB / BTC
Current ByteBall price is $356/GB, so

1BTC yields about $2.22

 

This is proof it's yours, especially as it was quoted by another person back on 2/1/16
Based on this, won't the mods give you your account back?

Would someone please verify and quote. Many Thanks

Increasing the block size won't stop spam, it will just fill up the hard drives quicker.
To stop spam you need a fee market, which 'prices out' the spammers, coupled with a 2nd tier, low cost, off chain payment system where spam has no effect... oh look thats what we are now getting... great

 

Even with the crazy difficulty adjustment, BTC is now more profitable
http://fork.lol
Is this the death toll for BCH

Bitfury mines a block over 1MB
https://blockchain.info/block-height/481947

A rough estimate on password security from http://random-ize.com/how-long-to-hack-pass/ shows only weeks/months to crack your 9 char password. No idea what security bitcointalk uses, I assume Theymos has done it properly, but perhaps they are able to brute force multiple accounts simultaneously, and you were the unlucky one.

If you are going to use a password manager you may as well use 20char passwords, eliminating brute force as an attack vector completely.
Maybe this is  a good reason  to change all your current passwords

You are forgetting the Users, we have the power, we buy the coins, and ultimately we determine the consensus.
The businesses and miners are just service providers, some have deep wallets, but they are not bottomless.
Most importantly none of us will let Bitcoin be controlled by private meetings and agreements in which we have no say. B2X can get the fuck-off my precious Bitcoin.

Is mining this dual BCH/BCC system going to converge on a oscillation, an equilibrium or end up being chaotic?

You need cream lightning
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UgiJPnwtQU&t=648s

"both chains will be unusable for days, possibly weeks" why?

Never fails to surprise..

A restriction on the current ruleset can be a soft fork.
Loosening the rules  would need to be a hard fork.

So setting block size down to 500K is a soft fork, up to 2MB is a hard fork.
500K is less than the current rules, so its more restrictive.

Its a last resort, and will require a hard fork.
After the difficulty change the BTC chain will be open to 51% attacks (by the massive mining power on the other chain) trying to put the final nails in the coffin, so there will need to be a POW change also, and this will alienate any miners who had stayed on the original BTC chain.

I don't think an emergency hard fork is going to be easy to get installed by everyone, but there may be no choice.

Just so I'm not accused of shilling for BCH, I'd prefer if BCH just died now...but Just a train of thought....

Segwit2X is designed to fail (Garzic is not even implementing Replay Protection) which will ensure Core supporters dislike it, and they can spread there ideas easily to those who are on the fence.
These little pumps in the BCH price are designed to shake out the core supporting BTC holders. They will play with the price until November enticing us to sell in various ways.
Then November comes, Segwit2X fails, Jihan switches to BCH and then the real push starts.
BTC is left with 10-20% of hash power and stalls for a few weeks/months until the difficulty re-calc.

No-body is left to hold back the BCH price and it is pushed dramatically upwards to try and create a viable alternative, Main stream media is saturated with anti BTC articles. BCH announce a bunch of partnerships and deals.

There is more to their plan, than we have seen so far.
Maybe good to pick up some cheap BCH over the next few months to help kill it later.
Everything that has happened so far was easily predictable in advance, this is just the opening (sacrificial) battle, in a war. Perhaps I am giving them too much credit, but, I think they are playing a longer game than we currently see.

The restriction on 'hate speech' is a disgusting infringement upon free speech, it brings a subjective definition to 'free' and allows governments to selectively stop free speech.
I don't see 1960's war movies which display hatred towards Hilter being tagged as hate movies, it's just a mechanism to justify a curtailment.

Much of what Roach says I disagree with, but I am happy that he can say what he thinks, for me, endless repetition may be a reason to put him on ignore, not his views.

I can't connect the dots, what are you suggesting?

Wow..... they can piss off, lying about non existent problems in Segwit, and getting you to install a Trojan Horse (BTC1) to fix it.

The real problem is that most people fail to understand probability/risk.

Quantum theory says it is possible that you will spontaneous disappear and re-appear on the dark side of the moon.
But if the average time it takes to happen is greater than the lifetime of the universe, you may as well say in normal conversation it's impossible (even though it isn't)

Its the same with hacking Bitcoin, if you want to brute force any of the keys or hashes in Bitcoin it is currently 'impossible'

The next risk is back doors, can someone find a back door to cut down the number of possibilities that need trying in a brute force attack, this is really difficult to quantify as you need to predict when something will be discovered or invented.

Bitcoin used SHA256 hashing and Elliptic Keys.


A bitcoin address is made from hashing a Public Key.
If you send coins from a Bitcoin Address you release your public key to the world.

So with only the Bitcoin Address a hacker needs to brute force both the hash of the address and the public key(s) discovered for that hash. That's 2 levels of security.
If the public key is known, the hacker *only* needs to hack the key and find the private key.

Of course both these 'hacks' are 'impossible'

But for  better security in Bitcoin (which would require the hacking/brute forcing of 2 crypto operations) don't reuse Bitcoin Addresses and release your Public Key.