They are scoundrels primarily because they refuse to honestly admit their venture as an altcoin, and implement a reliable replay protection
I do not agree with everything in the following quoted blog (although I agree with what is quoted blow) in that there is no “social consensus” w.r.t. to any subjective issues (rather the social sheep are for harvesting by the whales), so I offer my perspective on why these games are being played to fool the sheep into walking into the trap:
5) Replay protection and unnecessary disruption: this was perhaps one of the most controversial stances by the S2X developing team. The outright refusal, followed by persistent reluctance, to implement strong replay protection gave a sense of recklessness to the entire community. It seems, at times, that S2X aims at deliberately causing disruption in the expectation users will capitulate and end up upgrading to its incompatible implementation. This posture undermines S2X’s own credibility as a legitimate attempt to improve the protocol.
Here is a conspiracy theory for you:
I don’t think so. BTC will become stronger (after some collapse in price and recovery) because it remained immutable as no Core thugs were able to monopolize the mutation of the blockchain for their bankster masters who funded them. Whereas BCH was an airdrop not a hard fork. The point being that the free market should decide which mutation is valuable, by making them all airdrops and not the anointing one over the others by some NYA of whales. Nevertheless, I think the entire Core thuggery is really just a Hegelian dialectic by design, to take BTC from sheep when immutability is ultimately restored. Again this is not a certain outcome nor is the timing certain. I reiterate this is a speculative interpretation of what I perceive may be the reality behind the curtain so to speak, although technological facts are in the open for anyone to analyse.
Of course, my speculation could end up entirely incorrect or it could happen years from now when everyone has long since concluded I was smoking my own Koolaid.the very nature of an “agreement” between a few parties in a decentralized consensus protocol can be interpreted as an aggression against the network.
My speculative perspective is that Core are the thugs and I will celebrate when this reality becomes apparent to everyone. Sheep are slow to learn, but the whales already know what is coming and why.
The SegWit theft will correct the thuggery and punish all those stupid enough to trust thugs.
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