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November 08, 2017, 03:50:57 PM |
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The x2 chain, in a darwinist/capitalist context, is more likely to survive than the x1 chain.
The highlighted aspect says to me - fear of being poor. That's why they won't disrupt how Bitcoin is operating and that informs all behaviour in this space.
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November 08, 2017, 03:56:01 PM |
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Still waiting for the "experts in technology" of this thread to refute this point: Bitcoin’s network is going to work exactly as Satoshi programmed it. At present, miner support for the 2x hard fork is running around 83 percent. Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song made some rough calculations, based on 90 percent miner support for the fork. This is reasonable since statistical variance causes miner support to fluctuate.
Song reasoned that, if 90 percent of Bitcoin’s miners follow through with their current plan to mine SegWit2x, then:
“ Block 494784 splits to 1X and 2X. Initially, 1X has 100 minute blocks, 2X has 11 minute blocks on average. 1X and 2X have the exact same difficulty.”
Legacy Bitcoin (which Song calls “1X”) would have 100 minute blocks. This means a single transaction with a high enough fee to make it into the next block would require 10 hours to receive six confirmations. It would take nearly half a day to fully confirm a transaction on the 1X chain!
How is the ecosystem going to react to a nearly two hour block time? Given the great slowness of the network - an order of magnitude slower than pre-fork--how high will fees rise? If the block size remains the same (on the 1X chain) but there are only a tenth as many blocks, fees will have to rise to monstrous levels since there will be 10 times the competition for space in a block.
This will be no brief inconvenience, either. Song estimates that if the mining split remains as it is today, the 1X chain won’t experience a difficulty drop until Feb. 3, and block times won’t return completely to normal until March 10. Die-hard supporters of the legacy chain will be contending with nearly two hour block times and sky-high fees for about three months!
The thing that the fuckwitted autists who squeal about this never, ever, ever, ever seem to bother to mention is a small group of people known as... wait for it.... users. There are millions of them who wield staggering and overwhelming power. Miners can posture all they like. If they attempt to fuck the users then they triple entry buttfuck themselves with razorwire dildos. Every single doomsday scenario has been played out ad nauseam. We've been told were going to be murdered by everything the tossers who FUD laid out in loving detail. When it came to actual reality the risk of pissing off the users outweighed anything else and nothing happened. Ok, I understand. And the technical reasons? You are basically talking about a transient bad user experience in a hypothetical situation (in which the miners refuse to mine 1X bitcoin while it retains the highest price). This is not a technical issue.
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Gab0
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November 08, 2017, 03:58:10 PM |
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The x2 chain, in a darwinist/capitalist context, is more likely to survive than the x1 chain.
The highlighted aspect says to me - fear of being poor. That's why they won't disrupt how Bitcoin is operating and that informs all behaviour in this space. or..., that is why they will provide the network with better features that make it more competitive in relation to its environment. Every biologically immutable being is doomed to disappear with respect to those who do. Homo sapiens vs Homo erectus.
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November 08, 2017, 03:59:41 PM |
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that is why they will provide the network with better features that make it more competitive in relation to its environment.
You achieve that with consensus and a smooth upgrade that carries everyone along with you. Not detonating a bomb which kills half the crowd you depend on to eat which is what 2X is.
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November 08, 2017, 04:07:50 PM |
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we get free coins after forks. they are aidrop for holding bitcoin. we can get 10% of value from the bitcoin price.
When it forks the value of the other will go down while the new one takes a bit away from it and then when you put it back into BTC then BTC will be back where it was before and the other coin goes down. That's just my impression
But i don't see a difference because when the fork happens, say bitcoin drops 10% because people go into the other fork then you buy back that extra from the fork but it's like a seesaw because we all go into that one bringing the other price down and then we buy the other back and then it goes up so you don't win anything really.
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November 08, 2017, 04:09:02 PM |
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The x2 chain, in a darwinist/capitalist context, is more likely to survive than the x1 chain.
The highlighted aspect says to me - fear of being poor. That's why they won't disrupt how Bitcoin is operating and that informs all behaviour in this space. It appears to me that there might be some confusion between "Darwinist/capitalist" context and "Psychopatic destructive/suicidal greed" context.
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November 08, 2017, 04:10:33 PM |
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When buying a trezor, how can you be sure it doesnt get reprogrammed or something on the way here?
I’m guessing you can’t be 100% certain, it’s very unlikely though. Nearly every method of holding coins has a certain level of risk, some obviously more than others.
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November 08, 2017, 04:10:50 PM |
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that is why they will provide the network with better features that make it more competitive in relation to its environment.
You achieve that with consensus and a smooth upgrade that carries everyone along with you. Not detonating a bomb which kills half the crowd you depend on to eat which is what 2X is. Exactly, that's what people don't seem to understand. Bitcoin is going to get to 2x or some other increase in the future but not now and not like this.
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November 08, 2017, 04:25:22 PM |
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that is why they will provide the network with better features that make it more competitive in relation to its environment.
You achieve that with consensus and a smooth upgrade that carries everyone along with you. Not detonating a bomb which kills half the crowd you depend on to eat which is what 2X is. Exactly, that's what people don't seem to understand. Bitcoin is going to get to 2x or some other increase in the future but not now and not like this. Amen!
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November 08, 2017, 04:34:23 PM |
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A study reveals that you Gab0 are a verified troll/shill, and always will be one. So who's paying you to continue on with your drivel?
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November 08, 2017, 04:46:46 PM |
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When buying a trezor, how can you be sure it doesnt get reprogrammed or something on the way here?
I believe there's no firmware present in a freshly-unpacked TREZOR. This means that, in order to be able to use it, you must download the firmware from SatoshiLabs (the creators of TREZOR) and program the device yourself. During this process, a digital fingerprint is displayed on the device's screen, that should exactly match the one shown on the computer screen. After doing all this, your TREZOR is supposed to be tamper-proof and ready to securely manage your keys.
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November 08, 2017, 04:54:59 PM |
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When buying a trezor, how can you be sure it doesnt get reprogrammed or something on the way here?
I believe there's no firmware present in a freshly-unpacked TREZOR. This means that, in order to be able to use it, you must download the firmware from SatoshiLabs (the creators of TREZOR) and program the device yourself. During this process, a digital fingerprint is displayed on the device's screen, that should exactly match the one shown on the computer screen. After doing all this, your TREZOR is supposed to be tamper-proof and ready to securely manage your keys. They come with preinstalled fw (or at least they did in the past). But afaik the bootloader is read-only and is responsible to check the digital signature of any fw about to be installed.
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November 08, 2017, 05:08:10 PM |
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When buying a trezor, how can you be sure it doesnt get reprogrammed or something on the way here?
I believe there's no firmware present in a freshly-unpacked TREZOR. This means that, in order to be able to use it, you must download the firmware from SatoshiLabs (the creators of TREZOR) and program the device yourself. During this process, a digital fingerprint is displayed on the device's screen, that should exactly match the one shown on the computer screen. After doing all this, your TREZOR is supposed to be tamper-proof and ready to securely manage your keys. Irrelevant, the NSA could intercept your Trezor and stuff the pretty case with entirely different guts designed to outwardly mimic the actual device. Then the ninjas drop out of your ceiling vent.
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November 08, 2017, 05:09:14 PM |
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You achieve that with consensus and a smooth upgrade that carries everyone along with you. Not detonating a bomb which kills half the crowd you depend on to eat which is what 2X is.
so much this
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November 08, 2017, 05:12:55 PM |
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Segwit 2x guys just threw in the towel - bullish as fuck? https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.html... Our goal has always been a smooth upgrade for Bitcoin. Although we strongly believe in the need for a larger blocksize, there is something we believe is even more important: keeping the community together. Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade at this time. Continuing on the current path could divide the community and be a setback to Bitcoin’s growth. This was never the goal of Segwit2x. ...
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November 08, 2017, 05:15:28 PM |
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Segwit2x dead in the water (at least for now). I think bullish. Let's stop with damn forks please.
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November 08, 2017, 05:16:14 PM |
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Segwit 2x guys just threw in the towel - bullish as fuck? https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.html... Our goal has always been a smooth upgrade for Bitcoin. Although we strongly believe in the need for a larger blocksize, there is something we believe is even more important: keeping the community together. Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade at this time. Continuing on the current path could divide the community and be a setback to Bitcoin’s growth. This was never the goal of Segwit2x. ... moon time again? Uh-weeehh
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November 08, 2017, 05:16:31 PM |
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Segwit 2x guys just threw in the towel - bullish as fuck? https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.html... Our goal has always been a smooth upgrade for Bitcoin. Although we strongly believe in the need for a larger blocksize, there is something we believe is even more important: keeping the community together. Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade at this time. Continuing on the current path could divide the community and be a setback to Bitcoin’s growth. This was never the goal of Segwit2x. ... Woo. Hoo.
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Gab0
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November 08, 2017, 05:16:55 PM |
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that is why they will provide the network with better features that make it more competitive in relation to its environment.
You achieve that with consensus and a smooth upgrade that carries everyone along with you. Not detonating a bomb which kills half the crowd you depend on to eat which is what 2X is. Exactly, that's what people don't seem to understand. Bitcoin is going to get to 2x or some other increase in the future but not now and not like this. I do not know if it will be done now or later. What I do know is that the history of evolution is ruthless, and only the strongest survive.
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November 08, 2017, 05:17:50 PM |
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The x2 chain, in a darwinist/capitalist context, is more likely to survive than the x1 chain.
The highlighted aspect says to me - fear of being poor. That's why they won't disrupt how Bitcoin is operating and that informs all behaviour in this space. or..., that is why they will provide the network with better features that make it more competitive in relation to its environment. Every biologically immutable being is doomed to disappear with respect to those who do. Homo sapiens vs Homo erectus. If that's the case, why did VHS survive and Betamax die?
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