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34% full?

[marcus_of_augustus]

Well gentlemand is a hero and he doesn't know what a bitpay node is, and I'm only senior. Fortuitously Fatman3001 read an explanation by brg444 who said they want kill all the firstborn. Gentlemand came to the conclusion that bitpay is coming to his shack to strangle his kitten, so it must be an evil node.

Can you add to our knowledge about WTF a bitay node is?

Ok then.

"A Simple, Adaptive Block Size Limit"


https://medium.com/@spair/a-simple-adaptive-block-size-limit-748f7cbcfb75#.7m37712tl

Stephen Pair should stick to blowing untold millions and running start-ups off the cliff at the end of the runway.

Nice analogy.

BTW... do you have any insight on how Blockstream might earn back the $21 million bestowed upon them by Reid Hoffman, Khosla Ventures and Real Ventures, with investments from Nicolas Berggruen, Crypto Currency Partners, Future\Perfect Ventures, Danny Hillis, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Max Levchin, Mosaic Ventures, Ray Ozzie, Ribbit Capital, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures and several others?

My "insight" is as per all the released materials and statements by the Blockstream founders, the funding for Blockstream is basically to "keep doing what you are doing", build out the infrastructure and eventually a long term payback will inevitably arise by having all the best guys producing all the best ideas in the space. In the same way Mozilla foundation eventually profited from their browser search box ($300 million per annum from google for the default search  engine setting), Blockstream is expected to create something in the long term (next 5-10 years) that will inevitably be monetised ... in the meantime, all those investors you mention are helping to secure good people working on core 'unsexy' bitcoin infrastrucure, who were otherwise unpaid volunteers, and that will also future-proof their numerous other non-Blockstream investments in the space.

I'm sure you know all this and it is about the umpteenth time I've had to explain it to the usual trolls but today I'm feeling generous, so you should bookmark this answer for the hundred other times you will beg this question in the various forums.

Phew, I'm now reassured knowing Eric Schmidt has implored his team to work diligently on making Bitcoin Core the best it can be over the next decade, then we'll talk money...

I should have just read the tag line.

Reads quite a bit like sour grapes ... didn't get the invite to the big table? ... lost a little money on some half-baked start-up ideas? ... don't really understand the tech. as well as you thought?

Don't feel bad, Open Source is a difficult minefield to navigate commercially. Open Source money is guaranteed to leave no-one unscathed coming out the other side.

[lemmyK]

555      HA HA HA  

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[Cconvert2G36]

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I should have just read the tag line.

Reads quite a bit like sour grapes ... didn't get the invite to the big table? ... lost a little money on some half-baked start-up ideas? ... don't really understand the tech. as well as you thought?

Don't feel bad, Open Source is a difficult minefield to navigate commercially. Open Source money is guaranteed to leave no-one unscathed coming out the other side.

Now that we're focused on the messenger, any other guesses as to my motivations? This is fun.

I've had a policy of trust no one in cryptoland, it's worked out quite nicely for me so far. My questions WRT the motivations of Blockstream's investors, their employees, and the "reference" client they control... are very much in keeping with this policy. 

[sAt0sHiFanClub]

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I should have just read the tag line.

Reads quite a bit like sour grapes ... didn't get the invite to the big table? ... lost a little money on some half-baked start-up ideas? ... don't really understand the tech. as well as you thought?

Don't feel bad, Open Source is a difficult minefield to navigate commercially. Open Source money is guaranteed to leave no-one unscathed coming out the other side.

Now that we're focused on the messenger, any other guesses as to my motivations? This is fun.

I've had a policy of trust no one in cryptoland, it's worked out quite nicely for me so far. My questions WRT the motivations of Blockstream's investors, their employees, and the "reference" client they control... are very much in keeping with this policy. 

Especially those who explicitly tell you to "trust us"

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[JayJuanGee]

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I should have just read the tag line.

Reads quite a bit like sour grapes ... didn't get the invite to the big table? ... lost a little money on some half-baked start-up ideas? ... don't really understand the tech. as well as you thought?

Don't feel bad, Open Source is a difficult minefield to navigate commercially. Open Source money is guaranteed to leave no-one unscathed coming out the other side.

Now that we're focused on the messenger, any other guesses as to my motivations? This is fun.

I've had a policy of trust no one in cryptoland, it's worked out quite nicely for me so far. My questions WRT the motivations of Blockstream's investors, their employees, and the "reference" client they control... are very much in keeping with this policy. 

Especially those who explicitly tell you to "trust us"

Trust me, bitcoin is going on a choo choo mf in the very near future.       

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[BlindMayorBitcorn]

what happened to the coffee-gasms you used squirt all over the WO thread?

It seemed to piss too many people off so I didn't bother any more.

It was usually all about trying to stay awake when we were going sideways so often people posted GIFs of tumbleweeds.

Coffee is just a crack-of-noon wakeup drink for me anyway. After happy hour it's strictly booze, preferably Guinness Extra Stout.

Hey Jimbo, Any thoughts on how long we'll move sideways now? Also would you care to comment and throw in a few bits regarding core/blocksize/bitpay/coinbase current loggerjam/loggerhead? not sure which its supposed to be with regards to above term lol. Thanks.

I'm curious as well. I can't help but notice he's yet to appreciate Blockstream.

Very suspicious.

I've consciously tried to abstain from the blocksize debate. I don't do coding myself (not since Microsoft Basic on a TRS-80  ) so I have to place my trust in the worldwide Bitcoin "community" to police the open-source code. When I delegate, I try not to interfere.

That said, I see the need for larger blocks with time. I also see people with a political agenda trying to use the debate for their own purposes. I'll leave politics to the politicians.  

Blockstream? I don't follow it too closely but I know it's a sidechain technology [company], as is Ethereum which I don't follow that closely either, although I did attend a meetup just before the launch in which Vitalik Buterin spoke and outlined the advantages of decentralized contracts. Blockchain 2.0 obviously holds great promise but I don't see it as competing with Bitcoin, which has achieved critical mass ahead of any altcoins.

As for how long we'll go sideways this time, my guess is probably for a few days although being the weekend, anything can happen.

Fixed/bolded.


*Vote Blockstream^TM.

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

For Lambie: I believe he has a soft-spot for this enterprising young go-getter.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-startup-ceo-resurfaces-2-year-disappearance/

Danny Brewster, the founder and CEO of Cyprus-based bitcoin banking startup Neo & Bee, is now tweeting from his former Twitter handle @BtcDanny, with messages including promises that he intends to reimburse investors for losses incurred during what can be best described as a contentious period of company turmoil at the start of 2014.

[Cconvert2G36]

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Fixed/bolded.


*Vote Blockstream^TM.

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

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Fixed/bolded.


*Vote Blockstream^TM.

Please (Cconvert2G36), allow me to explain. Core is only part of the bigger picture. At Blockstream^TM we pride ourselves on forward-thinking, deep-future planning, and paradigm shifting.

Blockstream: We put the icing on your cake!


*We put the icing on your cake! is a registered trademark of the Blockstream corporation and its subsidiaries... All reights rezerv'd.

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what, all exchanges are down

[marcus_of_augustus]

oh, a troll circlejerk now ... how predictable.