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I just finished reading the open letter, and, I must admit, it scared the hell out of me. I have already sold all my Bitcoin Cash. I really wish things will not turn out the way the letter describes! Wondering if we all should have kept our BCH... ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) Jimbo and jbreher may well turn out to be the smartest guys among us. I already sold all my bcash @0.07ish and i'm still happy with it ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) The letter is a cool, well written piece of FUD. What scares you exactly? Do you agree that malleability is a "non problem", are lighting solutions are really "patented"? And i can't even understand (but may be my problem) why he says that zero-conf is bad and "robbing bitcoin.
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November 03, 2017, 05:41:51 PM |
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I just finished reading the open letter, and, I must admit, it scared the hell out of me. I have already sold all my Bitcoin Cash. I really wish things will not turn out the way the letter describes! Wondering if we all should have kept our BCH... ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) Jimbo and jbreher may well turn out to be the smartest guys among us. True bitcoiners are not in it for the money, but for the principle, since the beginning. I dumped all my bitcointrash on day 1 and won't regret it even if they go to 1 million each. And that even if I am not hostile to non-hostile alts and forks. So much that I'm liking Bitcore (BTX) lately.
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Due to the constant high fees and network congestion, they introduced an anti-feature called Replace By Fee (RBF)[ref]. The aim of this was to allow users to pay a higher fee for transactions that were stuck and unconfirmed. This broke a critical feature called Zero-Conf which meant merchants could reliably accept a low value transaction with no confirmations as long as it was the first transaction seen on the network.
"Reliably accept".... "critical feature"...."with no confirmations".... lol... I guess Peter Todd didn't get the memo when he double spent coinbase's zero-conf, without RBF... https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/686365181241212928?lang=enSeriously, who writes this bullshit? These people are delusional thinking bitcoin needs zero confirmations for transactions.
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November 03, 2017, 05:47:31 PM |
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I just finished reading the open letter, and, I must admit, it scared the hell out of me. I have already sold all my Bitcoin Cash. I really wish things will not turn out the way the letter describes! Wondering if we all should have kept our BCH... ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) Jimbo and jbreher may well turn out to be the smartest guys among us. I already sold all my bcash @0.07ish and i'm still happy with it ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) The letter is a cool, well written piece of FUD. What scares you exactly? Do you agree that malleability is a "non problem", are lighting solutions are really "patented"? And i can't even understand (but may be my problem) why he says that zero-conf is bad and "robbing bitcoin. I know it's just a well-written piece of FUD, but if such FUD manages to mess things up for us, it would be good to have a "hedge" (a.k.a. BCH, especially since that "hedge" was given to us for free). I don't agree with the letter, not at all. I just feel worried about the whole situation we're going through.
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November 03, 2017, 05:49:16 PM |
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I just finished reading the open letter, and, I must admit, it scared the hell out of me. I have already sold all my Bitcoin Cash. I really wish things will not turn out the way the letter describes! Wondering if we all should have kept our BCH... ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) Jimbo and jbreher may well turn out to be the smartest guys among us. I already sold all my bcash @0.07ish and i'm still happy with it ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) The letter is a cool, well written piece of FUD. What scares you exactly? Do you agree that malleability is a "non problem", are lighting solutions are really "patented"? And i can't even understand (but may be my problem) why he says that zero-conf is bad and "robbing bitcoin. I know it's just a well written piece of FUD, but if such FUD manages to mess things up for us, it would be good to have a "hedge" (a.k.a. BCH, especially since that "hedge" was given to us for free). I don't agree with the letter, not at all. I just feel worried about the whole situation we're going through. It is indeed a well written piece of FUD. Let's face it, the Segwit opposition is growing and will not be stopped any time soon. There are more and more Bitcoin Cash shills every day. I think Bitcoin Cash will continue to gain steam up until the fork, but what happens after the fork is anyone's guess. My guess is the Segwit1x fork will be crowned Bitcoin. Just hedge your bets and you will be OK.
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November 03, 2017, 05:49:47 PM |
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I just finished reading the open letter, and, I must admit, it scared the hell out of me. I have already sold all my Bitcoin Cash. I really wish things will not turn out the way the letter describes! Wondering if we all should have kept our BCH... ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) Jimbo and jbreher may well turn out to be the smartest guys among us. Don't worry, it's not the miners that decide, it's the users. VHS was big because everybody used it, not because it was the best system, Betamax was a lot better, but it died all the same. EDIT: It's video tape systems, for all you young ones.
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November 03, 2017, 05:51:51 PM |
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I think the Bitcoin Cash will continue to gain steam up until the fork, but what happens after the fork is anyone's guess. My guess is the Segwit1x fork will be crowned Bitcoin.
I really hope that's what happens in the end.
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November 03, 2017, 05:58:05 PM |
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November 03, 2017, 06:00:34 PM |
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I just finished reading the open letter, and, I must admit, it scared the hell out of me. I have already sold all my Bitcoin Cash. I really wish things will not turn out the way the letter describes! Wondering if we all should have kept our BCH... ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) Jimbo and jbreher may well turn out to be the smartest guys among us. Don't worry, it's not the miners that decide, it's the users. VHS was big because everybody used it, not because it was the best system, Betamax was a lot better, but it died all the same. EDIT: It's video tape systems, for all you young ones. I like your VHS vs. Betamax example, but in our case I believe BTC (the original coin) is better than BCH for many reasons, so the analogy would be that Betamax had ended up being the dominant one, due to its quality as well as its widespread usage.
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November 03, 2017, 06:02:36 PM |
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Cool. I get to Kanagawa prefecture from time to time. Next visit, I'll have to take a sidebar west.
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November 03, 2017, 06:06:55 PM |
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complete with craters...this thread delivers
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November 03, 2017, 06:07:52 PM |
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It is indeed a well written piece of FUD. Let's face it, the Bitcoin Cash opposition is growing and will not be stopped any time soon. There are more and more Bitcoin Cash shills every day. I think Bitcoin Cash will continue to gain steam up until the fork, but what happens after the fork is anyone's guess. My guess is the Segwit1x fork will be crowned Bitcoin. Just hedge your bets and you will be OK.
If you've ever used BCH you'd realize there's nothing to hedge. Personally speaking, it's one of the most problematic altcoins I've ever used - and the only one where its marketcap stood out as insane compared to its inherent qualities. -There are virtually no nodes to sync - you connect to bitcoin-core of the BTC chain and you get disconnected all the time. -Blocks can take hours. -On top of that exchanges require several confirmations, compounding the delay problem. Anyone taking BCH for a spin cannot reach any other conclusion than "this is so broken it's not even funny". I don't know if they fixed anything in the software since launch, but the 0.14.something-abc I tried, was f'ed up pretty badly. In terms of investment fundamentals, the threat of massive dumps if price becomes attractive to dump, again isn't funny. But that's what happens when people get "free coins". They are very happy to dump them if they are worth something. Some have strategically kept their BCH to inflict maximum damage to possible BCH pumping - and that's also not a good prospect for a potential investor. BTC has just 4 mn coins to mine and that's it. With forked coins (whether BCH, BTG, S2X etc etc) the store-of-value-proposition is problematic because first they have to mine another 4 million coins as well (just like BTC), but the market also has to absorb millions of coins that will get dumped for BTC. And every time the price rises, the more incentive there is to dump free-fork-coins-for-BTC. There's an inherent uncertainty of unloading the bag first or holding it while it gets devalued by others dumping, so the game theory regarding store-of-value for forked coins is not very good...
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November 03, 2017, 06:10:08 PM |
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I just finished reading the open letter, and, I must admit, it scared the hell out of me. I have already sold all my Bitcoin Cash. I really wish things will not turn out the way the letter describes! Wondering if we all should have kept our BCH... ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) Jimbo and jbreher may well turn out to be the smartest guys among us. Don't worry, it's not the miners that decide, it's the users. VHS was big because everybody used it, not because it was the best system, Betamax was a lot better, but it died all the same. EDIT: It's video tape systems, for all you young ones. I like your VHS vs. Betamax example, but in our case I believe BTC (the original coin) is better than BCH for many reasons, so the analogy would be that Betamax had ended up being the dominant one, due to its quality as well as its widespread usage. But since it didn't, I cant use that as an analogy. I can only use the user support as an analogy.
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November 03, 2017, 06:11:46 PM |
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One of the key securities of Bitcoin is that it will not be successfully forked. If such an event were to occur it would mean it cannot be trusted and therefore die and become mutable. On principle alone we must go forward only with consensus to changes from the majority of users not hash power manipulation and FUD. This will come down to what we believe in. Lets talk about Lightning Network. Is it a patented solution that has the ability to shut down miners?
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November 03, 2017, 06:18:29 PM |
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One of the key securities of Bitcoin is that it will not be successfully forked. If such an event were to occur it would mean it cannot be trusted and therefore die and become mutable. On principle alone we must go forward only with consensus to changes from the majority of users not hash power manipulation and FUD. This will come down to what we believe in. Lets talk about Lightning Network. Is it a patented solution that has the ability to shut down miners?
I don't know, but if it does make mining unprofitable it might actually crash bitcoin, we need the miners.
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November 03, 2017, 06:20:07 PM |
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I like your VHS vs. Betamax example, but in our case I believe BTC (the original coin) is better than BCH for many reasons, so the analogy would be that Betamax had ended up being the dominant one, due to its quality as well as its widespread usage.
But since it didn't, I cant use that as an analogy. I can only use the user support as an analogy. You're right, of course, I just wanted to point out the difference. In fact, being the better coin, there's even more incentive for BTC to win over BCH.
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November 03, 2017, 06:22:19 PM |
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I like your VHS vs. Betamax example, but in our case I believe BTC (the original coin) is better than BCH for many reasons, so the analogy would be that Betamax had ended up being the dominant one, due to its quality as well as its widespread usage.
But since it didn't, I cant use that as an analogy. I can only use the user support as an analogy. You're right, of course, I just wanted to point out the difference. In fact, being the better coin, there's even more incentive for BTC to win over BCH. Agreed.
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November 03, 2017, 06:24:40 PM |
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It is indeed a well written piece of FUD. Let's face it, the Bitcoin Cash opposition is growing and will not be stopped any time soon. There are more and more Bitcoin Cash shills every day. I think Bitcoin Cash will continue to gain steam up until the fork, but what happens after the fork is anyone's guess. My guess is the Segwit1x fork will be crowned Bitcoin. Just hedge your bets and you will be OK.
If you've ever used BCH you'd realize there's nothing to hedge. Personally speaking, it's one of the most problematic altcoins I've ever used - and the only one where its marketcap stood out as insane compared to its inherent qualities. -There are virtually no nodes to sync - you connect to bitcoin-core of the BTC chain and you get disconnected all the time. -Blocks can take hours. -On top of that exchanges require several confirmations, compounding the delay problem. Anyone taking BCH for a spin cannot reach any other conclusion than "this is so broken it's not even funny". I don't know if they fixed anything in the software since launch, but the 0.14.something-abc I tried, was f'ed up pretty badly. In terms of investment fundamentals, the threat of massive dumps if price becomes attractive to dump, again isn't funny. But that's what happens when people get "free coins". They are very happy to dump them if they are worth something. Some have strategically kept their BCH to inflict maximum damage to possible BCH pumping - and that's also not a good prospect for a potential investor. BTC has just 4 mn coins to mine and that's it. With forked coins (whether BCH, BTG, S2X etc etc) the store-of-value-proposition is problematic because first they have to mine another 4 million coins as well (just like BTC), but the market also has to absorb millions of coins that will get dumped for BTC. And every time the price rises, the more incentive there is to dump free-fork-coins-for-BTC. There's an inherent uncertainty of unloading the bag first or holding it while it gets devalued by others dumping, so the game theory regarding store-of-value for forked coins is not very good... BUT BUT 5!!! Independent development teams ![Cry](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cry.gif) . No seriously this is probably the worst shitcoin in crypto top100. Any other shitcoin out there with same broken functionality and such shitty devs would be worth lese then 100 sats.
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