CSW's "hash wars" impact on BTC price?

[Herbert2020]

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It showed that users mattered in Bitcoin during the proposed 2X hard fork by signers of NYA which had the biggest mechants and, I believe, by the people who controlled more than 50% of the hashing power. Bitcoin Cash does not have that philosophy.

the biggest thing that the 2x shenanigans proved was that everyone who is involved in bitcoin (users, nodes, miners, businesses,...) care too much about bitcoin and they don't want to destroy it by splitting it into two because of some nonsense argument, and ruin it forever.

in comparison you can see nobody cares about BCash so they easily split it into two and ruin it even more that it already is.

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[TomCrypto]

A small update on the losses for both team during this hash wars :


I don't understand why they keep wasting money and energy....

[Wind_FURY]

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It showed that users mattered in Bitcoin during the proposed 2X hard fork by signers of NYA which had the biggest mechants and, I believe, by the people who controlled more than 50% of the hashing power. Bitcoin Cash does not have that philosophy.

the biggest thing that the 2x shenanigans proved was that everyone who is involved in bitcoin (users, nodes, miners, businesses,...) care too much about bitcoin and they don't want to destroy it by splitting it into two because of some nonsense argument, and ruin it forever.

in comparison you can see nobody cares about BCash so they easily split it into two and ruin it even more that it already is.

Because they do not have the "users matter" ethos. For them, running a non-mining node is useless for the network because it's the miners that "rule" the network.

I believe there are some Bitcoin Cash ABC people debating "but we have more nodes than SV" in Reddit.

[cellard]

A small update on the losses for both team during this hash wars :


I don't understand why they keep wasting money and energy....

For me this is very clear: It's just an ego fight. They want to win, they don't want to end up as the guy that got defeated. And they want to own the BCH ticker on all exchanges, so it's a long term investment for them. They think that they will get their money back if their project (which they are vested in since they hold a lot of these respective tokens) ends up the one that survives and gets to keep the BCH ticker and network effect.

Of course long term the will just lose money as they will not be able to defeat BTC.

[dogtana]

The best thing would be that both BCH coins crash and go bankrupt.

[coinplus]

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It showed that users mattered in Bitcoin during the proposed 2X hard fork by signers of NYA which had the biggest mechants and, I believe, by the people who controlled more than 50% of the hashing power. Bitcoin Cash does not have that philosophy.

the biggest thing that the 2x shenanigans proved was that everyone who is involved in bitcoin (users, nodes, miners, businesses,...) care too much about bitcoin and they don't want to destroy it by splitting it into two because of some nonsense argument, and ruin it forever.

in comparison you can see nobody cares about BCash so they easily split it into two and ruin it even more that it already is.

What I even loved more about the whole thing is the fact that the punk himself, which in this case referring to Roger, had a taste of his own medicine and that is something I was actually hoping will end up happening right from time and getting him even more screwed.

Sometimes, I keep asking how long he is going to keep fooling around before realizing he does not even have a chance. Like you said, BCH became practically dead to me right from the onset, and no matter how hard Roger tried to pump it to make it gain relevance, that only put it more in the shitcoin category. Even as it is now, it is pretty much overvalued. It should be less than 0.00000001 usd.

[1Referee]

For me this is very clear: It's just an ego fight. They want to win, they don't want to end up as the guy that got defeated. And they want to own the BCH ticker on all exchanges, so it's a long term investment for them. They think that they will get their money back if their project (which they are vested in since they hold a lot of these respective tokens) ends up the one that survives and gets to keep the BCH ticker and network effect.

Of course long term the will just lose money as they will not be able to defeat BTC.

It's definitely an ego fight, but for the ABC camp there is so much at stake, that they can't do anything other than continue to waste money protecting their own chain. Let's be honest, the only reason BCH has value is because it's backed by Bitmain and Roger. In this case I would say 25% ego and 75% protection of economical incentives.

It all comes down to when the nChain and CoinGeek losers finally start to give up this nonsense battle. BCHSV isn't worth anything. It doesn't have any sort of network effect, economical adoption potential, has a horrible reputation, etc. In this case I would say it's 100% ego. CSW is the typical guy thinking like; If I go down, I'll take you down with me.

Jihan once accused CSW to be a blockstream spy, but it starts to look like he's a central bank spy more than anything. Where the heck did this asshole come from lol.

[Febo]

A small update on the losses for both team during this hash wars :


I don't understand why they keep wasting money and energy....

Because they can.  Why you think some people pay that bunch of guys drive cars in a circle and smash them?   People should do with they money as it pleases them. No one should dictate them.

[Wind_FURY]

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It showed that users mattered in Bitcoin during the proposed 2X hard fork by signers of NYA which had the biggest mechants and, I believe, by the people who controlled more than 50% of the hashing power. Bitcoin Cash does not have that philosophy.

the biggest thing that the 2x shenanigans proved was that everyone who is involved in bitcoin (users, nodes, miners, businesses,...) care too much about bitcoin and they don't want to destroy it by splitting it into two because of some nonsense argument, and ruin it forever.

in comparison you can see nobody cares about BCash so they easily split it into two and ruin it even more that it already is.

What I even loved more about the whole thing is the fact that the punk himself, which in this case referring to Roger, had a taste of his own medicine and that is something I was actually hoping will end up happening right from time and getting him even more screwed.

Sometimes, I keep asking how long he is going to keep fooling around before realizing he does not even have a chance. Like you said, BCH became practically dead to me right from the onset, and no matter how hard Roger tried to pump it to make it gain relevance, that only put it more in the shitcoin category. Even as it is now, it is pretty much overvalued. It should be less than 0.00000001 usd.

Although, I believe Roger Ver has been getting an unfair amount of hate. His heart is in the right place, and we should never forget what he has done for Bitcoin.

But he did it to himself by spreading FUD and by promoting "Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin", which by social consensus, isn't. He can argue that "Bitcoin Cash is also Bitcoin" though. Haha.

[cellard]

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It showed that users mattered in Bitcoin during the proposed 2X hard fork by signers of NYA which had the biggest mechants and, I believe, by the people who controlled more than 50% of the hashing power. Bitcoin Cash does not have that philosophy.

the biggest thing that the 2x shenanigans proved was that everyone who is involved in bitcoin (users, nodes, miners, businesses,...) care too much about bitcoin and they don't want to destroy it by splitting it into two because of some nonsense argument, and ruin it forever.

in comparison you can see nobody cares about BCash so they easily split it into two and ruin it even more that it already is.

What I even loved more about the whole thing is the fact that the punk himself, which in this case referring to Roger, had a taste of his own medicine and that is something I was actually hoping will end up happening right from time and getting him even more screwed.

Sometimes, I keep asking how long he is going to keep fooling around before realizing he does not even have a chance. Like you said, BCH became practically dead to me right from the onset, and no matter how hard Roger tried to pump it to make it gain relevance, that only put it more in the shitcoin category. Even as it is now, it is pretty much overvalued. It should be less than 0.00000001 usd.

Although, I believe Roger Ver has been getting an unfair amount of hate. His heart is in the right place, and we should never forget what he has done for Bitcoin.

But he did it to himself by spreading FUD and by promoting "Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin", which by social consensus, isn't. He can argue that "Bitcoin Cash is also Bitcoin" though. Haha.

At some point you have to put things on a balance and start questioning: Has Roger Ver done more bad than good at bitcoin after all of this?

He has caused a lot of losses directly or indirectly. By tricking people via bitcoin dot com that they were using Bitcoin but they were using BCash. By redirecting hashrate contracted via cloud mining on his pool into Bcash-ABC for the hashwars, and as a result, causing loses to Bitcoin loses as the price went down most likely helped by decrease of hashrate and dumping of coins to support his mining operation.

This compared to just talking about Bitcoin like he did early on, looks like he's doing more damage than good to me.

[fasdorcas]

A small update on the losses for both team during this hash wars :
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I don't understand why they keep wasting money and energy....

They have not seen anything yet. They are just going to end up as screwed up as any shit coin eventually. A waste of time, a waste of resources, a waste of space, those are pretty much the definition of shit coins. Roger really messed up right from time as a result of his own greed. He knew what was right, but he was looking forward to making more money, so I guess he is just so dumb enough not to have known that he does not have anything in this space.

I can imagine how real Satoshi will be laughing out hard right now, (if he is a single person anyway and if he is still alive), seeing all these things play out.

[Wind_FURY]

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It showed that users mattered in Bitcoin during the proposed 2X hard fork by signers of NYA which had the biggest mechants and, I believe, by the people who controlled more than 50% of the hashing power. Bitcoin Cash does not have that philosophy.

the biggest thing that the 2x shenanigans proved was that everyone who is involved in bitcoin (users, nodes, miners, businesses,...) care too much about bitcoin and they don't want to destroy it by splitting it into two because of some nonsense argument, and ruin it forever.

in comparison you can see nobody cares about BCash so they easily split it into two and ruin it even more that it already is.

What I even loved more about the whole thing is the fact that the punk himself, which in this case referring to Roger, had a taste of his own medicine and that is something I was actually hoping will end up happening right from time and getting him even more screwed.

Sometimes, I keep asking how long he is going to keep fooling around before realizing he does not even have a chance. Like you said, BCH became practically dead to me right from the onset, and no matter how hard Roger tried to pump it to make it gain relevance, that only put it more in the shitcoin category. Even as it is now, it is pretty much overvalued. It should be less than 0.00000001 usd.

Although, I believe Roger Ver has been getting an unfair amount of hate. His heart is in the right place, and we should never forget what he has done for Bitcoin.

But he did it to himself by spreading FUD and by promoting "Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin", which by social consensus, isn't. He can argue that "Bitcoin Cash is also Bitcoin" though. Haha.

At some point you have to put things on a balance and start questioning: Has Roger Ver done more bad than good at bitcoin after all of this?

He has caused a lot of losses directly or indirectly. By tricking people via bitcoin dot com that they were using Bitcoin but they were using BCash. By redirecting hashrate contracted via cloud mining on his pool into Bcash-ABC for the hashwars, and as a result, causing loses to Bitcoin loses as the price went down most likely helped by decrease of hashrate and dumping of coins to support his mining operation.

This compared to just talking about Bitcoin like he did early on, looks like he's doing more damage than good to me.

Then I looked at this in the bitcoin.com website,



I am back to "Roger Ver is scamming" again, and deserves much hate. Hahaha.

This is a very fraudulent attempt in marketing Bitcoin Cash ABC as the real Bitcoin for newbies.

Right when my opinion of him was changing after watching him and Charlie Lee debate about Lightning. Did you watch that video? It gave me the impression that Roger Ver is a fair man, but over-passionate.

[Pursuer]

so far based on what I have seen this was mainly a social media drama mainly on twitter and reddit instead of being an actual hash war. maybe there was some small scale war too but in an actual hash war one usually expects to see some 51% attacks on the weaker chain and considering they are both small and BSV has been much smaller we should have seen something and unless I missed it, there has been no attacks of any sort. which makes everything that was said by CSW, etc nonsense.

[cellard]

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It showed that users mattered in Bitcoin during the proposed 2X hard fork by signers of NYA which had the biggest mechants and, I believe, by the people who controlled more than 50% of the hashing power. Bitcoin Cash does not have that philosophy.

the biggest thing that the 2x shenanigans proved was that everyone who is involved in bitcoin (users, nodes, miners, businesses,...) care too much about bitcoin and they don't want to destroy it by splitting it into two because of some nonsense argument, and ruin it forever.

in comparison you can see nobody cares about BCash so they easily split it into two and ruin it even more that it already is.

What I even loved more about the whole thing is the fact that the punk himself, which in this case referring to Roger, had a taste of his own medicine and that is something I was actually hoping will end up happening right from time and getting him even more screwed.

Sometimes, I keep asking how long he is going to keep fooling around before realizing he does not even have a chance. Like you said, BCH became practically dead to me right from the onset, and no matter how hard Roger tried to pump it to make it gain relevance, that only put it more in the shitcoin category. Even as it is now, it is pretty much overvalued. It should be less than 0.00000001 usd.

Although, I believe Roger Ver has been getting an unfair amount of hate. His heart is in the right place, and we should never forget what he has done for Bitcoin.

But he did it to himself by spreading FUD and by promoting "Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin", which by social consensus, isn't. He can argue that "Bitcoin Cash is also Bitcoin" though. Haha.

At some point you have to put things on a balance and start questioning: Has Roger Ver done more bad than good at bitcoin after all of this?

He has caused a lot of losses directly or indirectly. By tricking people via bitcoin dot com that they were using Bitcoin but they were using BCash. By redirecting hashrate contracted via cloud mining on his pool into Bcash-ABC for the hashwars, and as a result, causing loses to Bitcoin loses as the price went down most likely helped by decrease of hashrate and dumping of coins to support his mining operation.

This compared to just talking about Bitcoin like he did early on, looks like he's doing more damage than good to me.

Then I looked at this in the bitcoin.com website,



I am back to "Roger Ver is scamming" again, and deserves much hate. Hahaha.

This is a very fraudulent attempt in marketing Bitcoin Cash ABC as the real Bitcoin for newbies.

Right when my opinion of him was changing after watching him and Charlie Lee debate about Lightning. Did you watch that video? It gave me the impression that Roger Ver is a fair man, but over-passionate.

Yeah I think I did watch some of that Charlie Lee interview of Lightning Network. In which by the way he said that he would pay Charlie Lee a sum of money if LN had a number of stores by a period of time, and apparently there are already more than that number of stores out there so I wonder if he paid Charlie Lee.

Roger Ver has been scamming people by calling Bitcoin "Bitcoin Core" and redirecting people around in confusing ways on his website. He always talks about the whitepaper but he isn't respecting the actual only thing that matters: Accumulated proof of work is what dictates where consensus of what Bitcoin is is.

[Wind_FURY]

I understand Roger Ver's frustration on Core, and I do not believe Bitcoin Cash's path to scaling is necessarily "bad", there will always be trade-offs.

I believe he is a fair man, a passionate man, and fights for his beliefs. Those are admirable traits. But I do not agree in his methods in marketing Bitcoin Cash.

Plus this from a Bitcoin Unlimited developer,





Hahahaha!

[rickadone]

It is not just an "ego" fight at all. Ego definitely plays a big role and for someone like Craig it is definitely an ego thing which I can understand because he really thinks he is the person with Satoshi connection and he knows what he wants and so forth however in reality he probably has no clue what would Satoshi wanted. He is a prick and he wants to win, that side could be all ego.

Moreover for places like bitcoin.com and bitcoin cash original guys with bitmain and so forth it looks like it is more about money. They would have to give the reigns to Craig and would have to lose a lot of money, yeah they are losing money right now at these current rates but at least they did not lost the coin itself, that would have been a bigger loss for them. So right now they are losing a little compared to what they could have lost.

[bbc.reporter]

This hashwar is not yet finished hehehe. However both of them cannot mine forever at a loss and there will be more lawsuits thrown versus each other that will cost them more.

Who has more bitcoins to burn, Roger Ver or Craig Wright? The winner will be known before December 31, 2019, I reckon.


Vitalik announcing the winner of the hashwar

A new lawsuit alleges that proponents of Bitcoin Cash ABC – one of two competing iterations of the bitcoin cash cryptocurrency that split off during a hard fork last month – illegally manipulated the market, damaging investors as a result.

Florida-based United Investment Corp. filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida claiming that Roger Ver, bitcoin.com, Bitmain and co-founder Jihan Wu, crypto exchange Kraken and founder Jesse Powell, and Bitcoin ABC developers Amaury Sechet, Shammah Chancellor and Jason Cox centralized bitcoin cash and manipulated the price during its contentious hard fork.

The suit claims that bitcoin.com and Bitmain (and their respective founders) “hijacked the [bitcoin cash] blockchain,” especially by dedicating mining power in theory assigned to mining the bitcoin blockchain to mining what was then referred to as the Bitcoin ABC chain.

In a separate statement sent to CoinDesk, UnitedCorp said the defendants perpetrated “a scheme of fraud” by colluding to control the network.

UnitedCorp claims that it “justifiably relied on Defendants’ misrepresentations by investing millions of dollars in development and deployment of infrastructure specifically for the mining of bitcoin cash,” and has suffered damages as a result.

Further, the suit claims that “Bitmain, Bitcoin.com, and Ver have been unjustly [enriched] by the conduct described above.”

The company claims similar damages from the role Bitcoin ABC developers played in setting up a checkpoint on the network, claiming that doing so “violated the ground rules of the network that other users had relied on and respected for years, and artificially pumped up the chain implementation with computer hashes to dominate the temporary software upgrade.”

This checkpoint also centralized the market, the suit claims.

In an email, Sechet told CoinDesk that Bitcoin ABC did not centralize the network, adding, “In fact I explained that the result of the actions being taken by various actors in the ecosystem would result in centralization.”

Finally, the suit alleges that Jesse Powell and Kraken impacted the price by designating the Bitcoin ABC chain as bitcoin cash, and granting it the “BCH” ticker.

Read in full https://www.coindesk.com/mining-firm-claims-bitcoin-abc-proponents-hijacked-bitcoin-cash

[Pursuer]

although I love to see what the result of it is but the lawsuit seems like pure bullshit. 90% of the things it mentions are not even illegal. for example the miners they own are theirs and they are free to do with them whatever they like. you can't sue someone for mining something they prefer. as for their pools, they weren't shady about what they are mining. it was clear what each of them support and if some miner wanted they could have left their pool and mined elsewhere.

the only thing that makes a little sense is the ticker thing which again is not exactly illegal according to the law since there is no standard for the tickers. calling some shitcoin BCH or BCHSV doesn't make a difference they are both still shitcoins that are abusing the name of a trusted cryptocurrency called "bitcoin". so if anything they are both criminals.

[bbc.reporter]

@Pursuer. It might be bullshit but it throws more unwanted obstacles on Roger and Jihan and it would cause them to spend more than they can afford in this hashwar.

[cellard]

I understand Roger Ver's frustration on Core, and I do not believe Bitcoin Cash's path to scaling is necessarily "bad", there will always be trade-offs.

I believe he is a fair man, a passionate man, and fights for his beliefs. Those are admirable traits. But I do not agree in his methods in marketing Bitcoin Cash.

Plus this from a Bitcoin Unlimited developer,





Hahahaha!

What do you mean "his frustration with Core"? what frustration? Are you perhaps implying that Core can single-handedly solve Roger Ver's frustration by, singlehandedly, raising the blocksize to whatever the fuck would meet Roger Ver's demands? Something doesn't add on to me.

I believe Roger Ver still doesn't understand that Core cannot raise the blocksize. If they did agreed, it would just cause a clusterfuck similar to what we've seen with Bitcoin Cash, because even if Core agreed, there are big Bitcoin pockets that wouldn't, so as soon as the split happened, the dump wars would begin and it wouldn't be pretty.