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[Quantus]

copy paste from part of Hearns rant

That’s when the denial of service attacks started. The attacks were so large that they disconnected entire regions from the internet:

    “I was DDos’d. It was a massive DDoS that took down my entire (rural) ISP. Everyone in five towns lost their internet service for several hours last summer because of these criminals. It definitely discouraged me from hosting nodes.”


LOL! may the Ddos be with you.

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I look forward to the coming Ddos wars

[mayax]

This guy took a job as a banker shortly after. Just ... remember that.

wouldn't you take a such job and to earn a lot of money?

[TooDumbForBitcoin]

Hearn's article is almost entirely inaccurate/misleading FUD.

It's possible that there will be some turbulence if we can't scale fast enough, but the Core devs have a plan that I think will probably alleviate problems in the short-term, and will almost certainly allow for massive scaling in the long-term. This plan includes an effective max block size increase to 2 MB in ~April. If any serious problems occur, it will be due to altcoins-in-disguise like XT and Classic trying to move Bitcoin development from something based on technical merit to something based on dictatorship or popularity.

Highlighting the weasel words and italicizing the hand-washing.

[mayax]

tell that to those who are already losing a lot of money.

BTC lost 60 USD in few hours. it's a huge loss.

[turkandjaydee]

This guy took a job as a banker shortly after. Just ... remember that.

wouldn't you take a such job and to earn a lot of money?

its not the taking the job or leaving bitcoin is the problem. He purposedly said all kind of bad things about bitcoin one sided.
Its kinda obvious that he wants bitcoin to fail. Because?... back to my first post.

[mexxer-2]

tell that to those who are already losing a lot of money.

BTC lost 60 USD in few hours. it's a huge loss.

Eh cryptsy dump? Hearn's feeling doesn't mean crap

[iCEBREAKER]

BTC lost 60 USD in few hours. it's a huge loss.

Turn on your TV.  The markets are melting.  Again.

Oil down to $29.50, a 12 year low.

Blockstream's fault.  Obviously.

Dow down 400.

Why, thermos, why?  

[Namrekka]

I guess we are all doomed.

[Amph]

tell that to those who are already losing a lot of money.

BTC lost 60 USD in few hours. it's a huge loss.

what i don't like it's not the loss itself, it's the fact that bitcoin can lose so much value in no time because of one stupid drama

this maybe is not a big problem now, but what if when bitcoin will be fully adopted? going, for example, from 100k, to 70k sounds not good at all

[LFC_Bitcoin]

The best thing we can do now is just stop giving this punk 'air time'. This is what he wants, the entire community talking about him.

The sooner he's forgotten about the better. He's just a minor speed bump in bitcoin's journey but we've driven over him now, let's not even look at him in the rear view mirror.

[Namrekka]

The best thing we can do now is just stop giving this punk 'air time'. This is what he wants, the entire community talking about him.

The sooner he's forgotten about the better. He's just a minor speed bump in bitcoin's journey but we've driven over him now, let's not even look at him in the rear view mirror.

+1

[jbreher]

[Non-technical misrepresentation]

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FTFY

Which part is misrepresented exactly? I think everything I stated can documented. 

Let us start with you defending the claim that his use of the term "economic consensus" is equivalent to "banks".

Your claim that he thought coinbase and bitpay constituted enough hash power to trigger the XT fork is laughable on its face.

Next, let s discuss your implied claim that he meant to do harm to miners.

[defaultking]

I haven't been following much of Bitcoin for a while now. Is what I read true that the Bitcoin network has lots of congestion and that transactions take too long?

Yeah from what I've read bitcoin is many years away starting to even have a problem with this. Then once it starts having "congestion" it will be many years before it's even noticable.

[pedrog]

I haven't been following much of Bitcoin for a while now. Is what I read true that the Bitcoin network has lots of congestion and that transactions take too long?

Yeah from what I've read bitcoin is many years away starting to even have a problem with this. Then once it starts having "congestion" it will be many years before it's even noticable.

then you should stop reading about it and start actually using bitcoin and you'll see the problem is today not in "many years"...

[dranster]

The last thing I heard was that he joined Ethereum

[Bobsurplus]

The last thing I heard was that he joined Ethereum

The best part of the Times story is this:

"The two camps have broadly painted each other as, on one side, populists who are focused on expanding Bitcoin’s commercial potential and, on the other side, elitists who are more concerned with protecting its status as a radical challenger to existing currencies."

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Hearn is firmly in the former, only with a prejudice towards more control and ambition for dictatorial power. Basically, Hearn was Bitcoin's Hitler. Like Hearn, Hitler saw the masses as "inherently stupid", and not fit to govern themselves. His faith in humanity was shaken when he finally realized the bitcoin masses were awake and aware to his plan.

Bitcoin talks hitler?
I dont think so dude.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
BITCOIN WAS AN EXPERIMENT. I got here in 2012 and remember seeing everyone say that all the time.
Today no one says it and yall act like bitcoin has won the game.
Bitcoin lost dude.
You cant scale this shit the way it needs to be scaled.
Even of you moved some of the transactions off line sorta speak like with changetip you still have major problems.
I know its hard because you're probably bagholding btc but you need to realize that real eyes see real lies.
Bitcoin is dying. Sell now and save yourself the heartache.

But hey, what do I know? Im just some nobody bitcoiner.

 

[Zz]

So is Satoshi back for the first time now? Theymos mentioned that post as Maybe Satoshi but what are the chances? I think it's logical to show up this time as Satoshi, this problem have to be discussed more importantly than "is Dorian real Satoshi" threads.

[Bobsurplus]

I know its hard because you're probably bagholding btc but you need to realize that real eyes see real lies.

You're always a blast Bobsurplus! You should know I'm a protocol advocate; not a bitcoin investor!

Thanks man. You too homie.  But given you're all about the protocol you should know more then most regarding the issues Bitcoin is facing.

[SamusNi]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1329377.0

[YarkoL]

So what's the plan Bob?
You're going to buy a shitload?