Stop and think for a moment.
If I own a large number of Bitcoins, and
Bitcoin.com, that means I'm financially motivated to do everything I can to improve the value of those assets.
This is unlike Adam Back, the CEO of Blockstream, who by his
own admission, and despite having known about Bitcoin for about 5 years due to being contacted by Satoshi himself in 2008, he didn't own a single Bitcoin himself in April of 2013. I doubt he has many bitcoins now either.
You have repeated this longevity argument frequently, and it is sad to hear because it is a kind of sign of insecurity to attempt to argue longevity status. Bitcoin is not proof of stake. Thank god.
Compare that with someone like myself who spent nearly every penny I had buying Bitcoin as soon as I learned about them in 2011.
That is good for you, but does not make you god because you had invested with such passion and leverage - a kind of gamble that paid off handsomely, but you should not be a bully about it.. even if you happen to be one of the largest bitcoin holders... whether you own 100k or 300k..
Adam Back can run circles around me when it comes to the underlying mathematics of Bitcoin,
at least you are humble enough to admit that. You should also have respect for your elders, if you are trying to play status games.
but he has demonstrated by his own actions that he has absolutely no clue why Bitcoin came to be used as money, and to this day he still doesn't understand why Bitcoin is money.
You admit that you are arguing with a person that is older and smarter than you, but still you want to try to denigrate him on some supposed money theory, and you are coming off as trying to be smart about something that you could not really understand, except for asserting that you understand some simplified version of your idea of money.
Sadly, his firm has done an incredible amount of harm to Bitcoin's adoption rate and has caused Bitcoin's market share to plummet from around 90% to less than 50% today.
misplaced and weak arguments of causation.. correlation does not equal causation, we all know that, right? You are really engaging in a personalized and emotional battle and really not connecting certain bigger picture matters, including basic concepts of decentralization.
Bitcoin is the only coin in the world to ever have had full blocks.
Makes little sense.. because the facts seem to clearly establish spam attacks and then you trying to act as if the spam attacks are reflective of some kind of organic useage of bitcoin. Your assertions do not line up with the actual facts.
If we want to experiment with the effects of full blocks on a system, it is incredibly reckless to do it on Bitcoin, yet that is exactly what Adam and his ilk have done. If we want to experiment with full blocks, do it on an alt coin!
You well know that there are lots of experiments running out there and bitcoin is the real deal. Further you likely realize that seg wit is going to resolve a lot of these matters, so that seems to be scaring your to death regarding your spinning of facts and what is going to happen once segwit is locked in and then activated.