It doesn't matter, what really matters that we all should support any chain if forked under one condition only if they fork with 75%+ otherwise it's an attack if they try to change protocols with 51%+ of hash power.
To those saying POW will be changed, how could it be? miners with 75%+ of hash power still needed to vote for a POW change or is there some other way?
Would you vote against yourself to fire you from your job and your vote would be the one vote that really matters?
How can miners mining with ASIC machines vote for a change that kills their mining machines?

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If the threat of hard fork eliminates in next 2 months then we shall see slow increase from $1100 but that really depends on how fast difficulty increases as well and given the nature of bitcoin mining which requires miners to add ASICs to their farms nonstop fortunately there is no room for difficulty not to increase. somewhere between 4 up to 8 months price will reach $1500 hopefully.

Guess who is the biggest f**l in Christianity? their religious leader, the pope but why you ask? if you ask him is Islam and Quran are the last guidance/religion sent by God he'll say yes, but guess what? Quran says if you say that God has a son you are not on the righteous path.
If you find out that Quran was truly sent by the creator of everything and if you still refuse to believe and follow it's teachings while KNOWING then you don't deserve to be guided and you'll only have the things that are made of this mortal world and will have no one to help you in the other. but how come the heads of Christian religion admitting that Islam is the last true religion but they're not submitting? hypocrite much? Vatican is hiding the real and complete Bible from the world because the news of the last and most complete religion (Islam) written in it.

I've learned one thing, if you be a good person and worship one true God not because of fear or virgins in afterlife but out of awe, because of the greatness of everything that He has created and still can't feel and see His signs and unable to receive any grace then it's because He doesn't want you to be guided, doesn't want to show you the right path not because that He is cruel but for that He can see through you, already knows what you have in mind, already knows your intent and knows that you're just looking for trouble seeking wrongful excuses to follow up on your worldly desires.

I bet most of the people think that God needs our prayers or needs us to worship him and if we don't He'll punish us out of cruelty and being a tyrant but here is the thing: God says that He shines the light of truth upon any and all souls, everyone will definitely feel His truth and sees the signs but many of people rather are ignorant and arrogant, they know deep down that He exist but they're selfish they want whatever they desire in this world and try to have them by any means necessary.

Of course Islam tells you to kill but who should you kill knowing it was the right thing to do? in a world where people have free will and they'll try whatever that makes them feel good (spread crime/steal/scam/robbery/adultery/vice/rape/bullying/keeping the good stuff for yourself/selling things with much higher price that they worth/slavery/lying/swearing falsely/ruining other people's lives/terrifying populations/killing innocent

people/forcing millions of people into committing crimes or taking nations resources by force/destroying people's houses forcing them to run from

their homelands and pretty much everything the terrorists and their behind the scenes allies and supporters are doing, you should kill them that is what Islam tells you to do, or if a man doesn't stop having s*x with other men while everyone knows that is not natural, if you want a hole then women have the most joyful ones tell me why would you drink water from sewers when there is fresh and clean water at your disposal? if someone refuses any medical/psychological treatment and just wants to f**k other men no matter the consequences of his actions and the negative

effects on the family levels of society, damaging maternal ideals/values, causing and spreading fatal diseases we should not condone such behaviors if we want to live in a healthy community where parents are man and woman raising their children with love and in a peaceful and healthy loving

environment unless you actually want your children/your own son to be violated se*ually in most gruesome possible ways while they're keeping it a secret from you because of the help of the so called democracy oriented community providing the means for them to mingle privately and conveniently?

Yeah I'm sure you can afford to keep such people in prisons but better keep them in women's prison where only females are constantly around them lol.

None of you seems to understand, lets imagine that you developed a game very much like a world that we live in, would you care what happens in the game? or do you think anything from inside that game can harm you? would you go inside the game as a character just to get killed for what? for a bunch of ungrateful game characters? (while Jesus didn't die and still is alive and he wasn't the son of God/he isn't God).

Christians are worse than atheists, at least they say there is no God whatsoever but Christians believe in trinity which is called polytheists.

In every holy book sent to guide mankind all the names of prophets and angels are the same and each book approves the one sent before with written testimonies, why there is no book and someone claiming to be a prophet and saying that Bible or Quran are lies and then provides something better?

Do you think 2000 years ago someone imagined the name "Gabriel" and said he was an archangel sent by God and more than 600 years after that again someone else from a different country/race started to imagine the same entity reading him words of God?

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How can you not see when you plant a seed in to the ground a tree grows out of the soil? how can it not be so obvious that someone (God) could easily use our DNA which by the way are all over the world and every person's DNA from Adam and Eve and up to the last numbers of people on earth is available somewhere but it is on earth and recreate us again just like when a tree grows from a tiny seed?

I'm telling you it's not too late still and there is time for you to get back on the right path because when the time is over repenting won't work and won't be accepted.

Each and every one of us will face our maker all alone by ourselves without anyone to help us but only our beliefs and our deeds in this world.

As a friendly suggestion, just once in your life spend a few hours at most to read the Quran in your own native translation and decide for yourself whether it was sent or written by an ordinary person with limited knowledge or not.
Many of us spend years essentially doing nothing, wasting our times while a few hours spent on reading and then deeply thinking about it might change our lives for eternity.

Banks/central banks/financial institutions/money related organizations and all are backed by physical gold/paper cash, one significant advantages of bitcoin that is virtual in nature there is nothing physically attached to it and everything just depends on the security of private key, it is a cryptography method that keeps everything a secret which goes back to ancient Greece times.

This question of yours is incorrect because bitcoin is the first of it's kind, it's a currency and a bank at the same levels, actually there is no bitcoin outside of a private key's vault it's more like a mobile Swiss bank also you need to have the money first to deposit in a bank but with BTC you are supposed to mine it and create money by doing so.
If you do something that the world powers don't like they can easily block/freeze your funds while no one can touch your coins and if a miner/attacker wants to steal/give away/change anything of your bitcoins they'd need to first invest more than what you have to be able to manipulate the blockchain and even keep raising their hash power in order to stay with the longest chain in other words it is impossible or not worth trying financially and those with great hash power already operating have more than any body else to lose if they ever try to damage the network.

So when I say bitcoin is something unique because of the statement above.

Did you wake up today and decided to run an online casino? just you being a newbie announcing your casino without first establishing trust and properly communicate is a red flag for me and I think many other members agree with me.
Bitcoin transactions being irreversible is another thing that stops me from sending/depositing my coins to you.

This is funny, it's obvious when altcoins dump and bitcoin rises exactly in same amount, remember when price was at $1250+ a month back? well that was the real demand but now it's just changing hands by traders but still a good thing for small investors to profit. right now the average is $1090 according to marketcap.com which is the natural price, after all why would anyone pay $1090 for one bitcoin if they could generate themselves spending less amount of money? when I say it all goes back to difficulty don't tell me I'm wrong.
If price slowly increases past $1100 we could be assured that it will stay there and it could become the next new bottom.

So BU is the answer? where only a big mining farm owning almost half the hash power wants to increase the block size as long as there are transactions in the mempool, but would they just and only change the blocksize without changing anything else?

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Hey mr mister why have you repeated the same mistake as the legendary member above? seagwit you like much eh? there is no fundamental change as you put it but rather making it possible to do a hard fork without splitting the network in half in a soft fork skin in the future. BU is about one big mining farm wanting to do a hard fork so they can do the same work as before but including more transactions so they can get more fees, imagine their grandchildren could include 2GB of transaction data in a block a century from now when there is no mining reward other than fees, I guess they've thought about everything really and increasing hash power is not an easy job it requires millions of dollars and a very well built infrastructure and even if they do BU supporter has a huge mining farm planned to turn it on and start mining in near future.
What they want is to get more earn more money since 1 block averagely found every 10 minutes is not enough for them.

the current state of the network is exactly what a decentralized network should be and if someday you saw miners easily implemented and activated something in matter of a month or two you need to run for the hills because that would mean a central authority with control and absolute power over any changes in the system.

Countries around the world are slowly getting the hint of a $20B marketcap currency and it's growth over time, they might regulate exchanges, prosecute mining farms or shutting them down that only will result in more need of trusted and reliable mixers.
Now that they're regulating exchanging services it will open some doors for mass adoption and same time the masses would hesitate to lose because of sharp fluctuations but again the sharks (wolves) of the market shall flood the market with new blood (money-capital) to take their profits as day traders.
And another outcome would be the people seeking anonymity and see value in privacy to lean towards the underground/darkweb/unregulated exchanges/p2p trades/in cash trades and basically any possible way to stay unknown.

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Let me explain in market language not technical, only a big mining farm which also are manufacturer of mining machines are supporting BU.
BU will allow miners (or rather allow themselves ) to generate blocks with any size depending on the numbers of unconfirmed transactions in the mempool but they didn't just change that NO they have changed other things as well and that's why nodes were operating on BU software were attacked/crashed/exploited. (ever since ASIC miners came to be no longer 1CPU or 1 computer was a full node and now you could operate 10K ASICs on only one full node but that is about centralization topic and doesn't belong here).

SW(segwit) will allow the developers to implement major changes in the future without needing to perform a hard fork the same hard fork BU is trying to perform which will damage the whole network greatly if not 95% of all nodes/miners vote on it and switch to run BU software.

If you think SW will give advantage to anyone running SW activated software then you could as a miner/full node operator run SW activated software to have the same advantage, why do you refuse to see the logic in that?

But one can argue why not switch to BU and have whatever BU supporters are going to have? answer is simple: only ONE miner which has a great hash power is mostly in support of BU and as well BU software is not the same as the software which right now majority of the network is operated on.

If BU had only changed the block size limitation we'd be gladly accept their version but why there was some attack on their nodes and why didn't the same attack work on Core nodes?

Having freedom over the size of a block means they want to collect as much fees as they can in a single block without contributing computing power required more than of mining a 1MB block, so only miners with most of the hash power will gain more profit and small miners will remain the bottom feeders with no saying in the future of and if any changes.

What happened with previous hard fork(s) why don't we have several chains? because everyone switched to Core and followed Core rules.

Banks/SWIFT have nothing to do with the use case of ASIC machines and they process their transactions entirely in a different way. BU will not fork bitcoin because then no exchanging company/merchants will recognize their generated coins as bitcoin and their coin's price will drop below $200 in matter of one week and drop to zero after a month.

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If segwit activated and spammers still able to spam with old keys then every one should switch to segwit and then everyone could ban/ignore those spams and a spammer needs to have hash power in order to mine blocks filled with spam transactions, a miner if stays honest and friendly to the network could profit more.
Miners also need to find the successful and honest pools to point their hash power only towards them and nodes must ban/ignore/blacklist those nodes which are broadcasting spam attacks.

Anyways right now the whole system are following and enforcing Core rules unless running BU right now could give people advantage over Core miners I see no reason to run other versions such as BU/classic/XBTC/8MB.

Please first learn how to type/write then express your half a*sed opinions.

An idea came to my mind, why google and microsoft (biggest public companies provide satellite imagery) are not trying to provide drone imagery instead of outdated/old images of the streets/cities/countries around the world? if they could find 1 person or a few to take pictures in their own countries with best quality/resolution and edit them in a live map very much like google earth/map and bing maps.

I agree that satellite images are more convenient and are taken without the hassle of asking for permits from authorities in each country especially if you try to fly a drone near military bases they might shoot it down but at least they could replace low quality satellite images with HD drone images.

Have you tried to contact them or any company organization interested in such works?

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I don't know whether they're idiots or they have millions of bitcoins under their control or do they own any hash power of the network?
People shouldn't get involved with bitcoin in national scale without them first being miners themselves.
If a country wants to build an economy based on bitcoin then they must have mining farms to avoid for example BU to mess up things and cause them huge losses.