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February 07, 2015, 09:32:49 PM
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We can and should view the 'bloatchain' or 'gavincoin' hard fork effort as simply an attack.

An attack? To remove a constraint that was always meant to be temporary? That's an attack?

Did I stutter?

Lot's of things that were hypothesized such as pruning have yet to happen.  Also it was very unclear who would be embracing the system and why in the early times.  With six years of history and ecosystem evolution it is perfectly relevant to re-evaluate certain things.  And, as always, it would be simplistic to assume that everyone who was involved were always fully transparent and accurate with their thoughts.  Satoshi had to make the best use of the resources he found at his disposal, and he himself may not have had a God-like understanding of all of the factors anyway.

That still fails to explain why you think raising the limit is an attack.

And:

Bitcoin always has and always will mean different things to different people.  I'm not joking when I say that I believe the hard-fork is a deliberate attack on the part of some people and a stepping-stone toward destroying Bitcoin by destroying fungibility (chiefly through {color}-listing.)

As you seem to be the only person in the thread who sees a connection between a higher block size and blacklisting coins, perhaps you could walk us down the logic path you took to reach that conclusion?  Sounds like an attempt at scaremongering to me.  Either that, or the anti-fork crowd are running out of legitimate arguments and are getting desperate.

I cannot take full credit for this.  The basic idea came from Hearn back in the 2010 timeframe when he said something like 'mining will be economically viable only for large specialists and there is little difference between between confiscating bitcoin and keeping someone from spending it for 20 years.'  This was back before we 'did' Libya and the example he used was Qaddafi IIRC.  Subsequently he spoke with apparent embrace of color-listing at the 2013 SJ conference (which I witnessed) and provoked a quasi-secret discussion of it within the Bitcoin Foundation.

So, let's see if we can stay on the ball here:

 - As the transaction rate increases, fewer and fewer people are 'peers' (any more than a debit-card user is a 'peer' in the SWIFT system when they get cash from a machine.)  The more they throw up their hands and just use Multibit or Blockchain.info, the less they know or care about 'P2P' and decentralization.

 - Separately, on a sufficiently large timeline (months to years) nobody can mine in the black unless they can subsidize their income by monetizing alternate revenue streams.  Mostly user intelligence data would be my guess.  This could be for their own use if they are giants, or more likely, by selling data to giants.  This promotes the 'specialization' that Mike eludes to since it is only realistic with high-value deployments.  (When you start to see 'cash back for using bitcoin' that is one gift horse you probably should inspect the mouth of...and it would not be a bad idea now given the subsidies that users are currently receiving.)

 - The more trinket-buying which is possible by the sheep using Multibit, the more corporate entities like TigerDirect will jump on board.

 - Corporate entities and large mining deployments when faced with punitive actions for not following regulations will have no realistic options but to tow the line.  If the law says 'comply with Bitcoin Licence requirements', that's what they'll do (though retailer types could just bow out at that point.)  It would be a logical system design for a small number of specialist outfits such as 'CoinValidation' to operate registry and validation (color-listing) services so their customers (miners and retailers) can just plug in to their API.  With a charter from state, business will be forced to their door.  That seals the loss of fungibility I mentioned.

There are many reasons to favor destruction of Bitcoin in this manner or others.  It is a 'disruptive' technology which threatens vested interests who are doing quite well with state sponsored fiat, thank you very much.  And, to be honest, Bitcoin provides a means for bad people to do bad things so it is not irrational to be against it for some legitimate reasons (though I find it ignorant and short sighted.)  Mostly, Bitcoin is in the sights of attackers so if/when it falls certain other 'alts' which are less susceptible to the same failure modes may end up winners.  Probably there are some people who recognize the potential for Bitcoin to succumb in a manner I've described and see it as an opportunity for their own project.


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February 07, 2015, 09:34:55 PM
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We can and should view the 'bloatchain' or 'gavincoin' hard fork effort as simply an attack.

rest assured many do see it that way

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February 07, 2015, 09:41:12 PM
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Sounds like an attempt at scaremongering to me.
Never seen any evidence of that. LOL Cheesy


And now the hardfork will seal its fate ...
Gavincoin hardfork will just make sure it dies faster.
The only thing that's certain is: Gavincoin won't be able to call itself 'Bitcoin'
The hubris is going to kill it.
No consensus on hardfork = end of the party

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February 07, 2015, 09:49:15 PM
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- As the transaction rate increases, fewer and fewer people are 'peers' (any more than a debit-card user is a 'peer' in the SWIFT system when they get cash from a machine.)  The more they throw up their hands and just use Multibit or Blockchain.info, the less they know or care about 'P2P' and decentralization.

I don't see why people see this as an issue. Even Satoshi knew and accepted this would happen:

Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto
Long before the network gets anywhere near as large as that, it would be safe for users to use Simplified Payment Verification (section eight) to check for double spending, which only requires having the chain of block headers, or about 12KB per day.  Only people trying to create new coins would need to run network nodes.  At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware.  A server farm would only need to have one node on the network and the rest of the LAN connects with that one node.

What has made humanity so successful as a whole is specialization. For example, I study computer technologies, but ask me to design a house or to sell a product or to do the accounting of a business, and I will fail miserably, because none of that is my speciality. So, I don't get why people get upset when they say “Not everyone will be able to be a miner”. Well, of course not. Not everyone is able to do everything, and specialization is a good thing. And while people may think that this leads to centralization, the truth is that miners are not a single entity and are still many of them for this to be avoided.

An economy based on endless growth is unsustainable.
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February 07, 2015, 09:52:03 PM
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We can and should view the 'bloatchain' or 'gavincoin' hard fork effort as simply an attack.

rest assured many do see it that way

I've noticed in the software engineering field that (very occasionally) one unusually skilled engineer is worth literally 10 average ones.  Alas, I was never one of the unusual ones and I've only worked with a handful of them.

I suspect the people who really understand the ecosystem on a wholistic level will have a higher percentage of these unusual types, and in distributed-crypto-currency-land an unusual individual may have an even greater value ratio.  Thus, I don't really care all that much about the numbers of foot soldiers in a boots-on-the-ground numeric.

Indeed, the idiots in the Bitcoin ecosystem today are numerous and they are much more of a liability than they are an asset.  Their job is done.  Disposing of them (as native Bitcoin core users) is yet another reason to look forward to a fork war.


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February 07, 2015, 09:55:54 PM
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If there is no hardfork, will even UTXOs with just 0.001 bitcoins (one millibit) become economically unspendable?

But here's here I'm seeing the problem.  With space becoming scarce, the fees make a whole lot of UTXOs economically unspendable.  A 1K transaction might be something like six inputs and two outputs.  So with a fee of 0.001 means the marginal cost for each UTXO input is about 0.0001  (roughly 300 bytes for the trx and two outputs, and ~120 bytes for each input [Edit: rough guess, but in the ballpark I believe]).  That means the fee at  0.001 per 1K costs about 10% for each UTXO of one millibit.


I was thinking about this the other day.  Every increase in fees means more utxo's fit the definition of "dust" in that spending them would require more fees than they are worth.  And fees will definitely increase.  If we suppose that at some point in the future the blockchain will transfer absolutely huge amounts of value with each block, then securing it is going to take a large amount of capital investment, and the fees will be large enough to cover that capital investment.   If fees are based on securing million-dollar transactions, then paying the same for the identical bandwidth to secure a five-dollar transaction is going to be impractical at best.

In the short run though, after the next reward reduction, fees are likely to increase and a lot of the present holders (those with Satoshi Dice outputs for example) will likely find that they have a lot of unspendable outputs at some point.

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February 07, 2015, 09:56:42 PM
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lol. Microtransactions bloat and Dos attack, here we come. 2.8 GB each day potentially. wow

didn't sync up for a week? Will take you a whole day to catch up.

People downloading the chain first time will leave the computer running for a month later on  Cheesy

Your internet provider will be outraged and cancel your contract if you're a bitcoin user  Cheesy

I think this whole story is pretty bizzarre

The solution is called blockchain pruning and it already exist. Just needs a bit more developing and testing. Your argument isn't such a big problem and this was already discussed if you would have read the last pages of the thread. Unless you are just another MP shit eating sockpuppet.

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WHAT A SURPRISE! All these accounts are against the fork and they are attacking everyone that is pro-fork. Surprisingly all the accounts were created in the same day and around the same hour.  HEY MP GO EAT A BAG OF DICKS. Do not get fooled by these sock-puppets. It's MP jerking on his keyboard.


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February 07, 2015, 10:01:01 PM
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I don't see why people see this as an issue. Even Satoshi knew and accepted this would happen:

Cross-posting it here just so MP can eat more shit:

Satoshi had no limit on block sizes at all.   From block 1 it was legal to have a 2MB, 20MB, even 33MB block.   There was a 33.5MB limit on message length and since blocks are transmitted as a single message it would have limited blocks to only 33.5MB but even this wasn't a hard limit as new message type could have been added which transmitted blocks in other ways (i.e. header & txn hashes vs full transactions).

The 1MB "limit" was added as a temporary anti-spam measure 18 months later.   There was no voting, no significant discussion, and the commit wasn't made by Satoshi.  It actually was combined with a bunch of other unrelated changes and not even well documented at the time.  There is nothing which indicates this was a core design decision that Bitcoin would perpetually be limited to 1MB.

Of course people that have their own agenda like MP will chose to ignore or not reveal the true history of this 1MB limit. I think things are pretty much clear and done regarding this subject. Sathoshi never intended for a block size limit. It was introduced because we didn't know how to handle spam and it was the easier and the fastest way to limit it. But now after a period of time we can develop technical stuff to deal with the spam in other way than limiting the block size. Go Gavin fork! Suck it MP!

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February 07, 2015, 10:12:46 PM
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Yes block all the accounts that are pro fork so you and your master MP can stuff a lot more shit in you.

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WHAT A SURPRISE! All these accounts are against the fork and they are attacking everyone that is pro-fork. Surprisingly all the accounts were created in the same day and around the same hour.  HEY MP GO EAT A BAG OF DICKS. Do not get fooled by these sock-puppets. It's MP jerking on his keyboard.

OMG this is so funny. LOL Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
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February 07, 2015, 10:22:47 PM
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This particular fork advocating eternal blockchain growth and never-full blocks should indeed be seen as an attack. Check my registration date.

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February 07, 2015, 10:27:46 PM
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This particular fork advocating eternal blockchain growth and never-full blocks should indeed be seen as an attack. Check my registration date.

It's not a “eternal blockchain growth”. You need to understand correctly what you're trying to disprove.

An economy based on endless growth is unsustainable.
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February 07, 2015, 10:42:12 PM
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This particular fork advocating eternal blockchain growth and never-full blocks should indeed be seen as an attack. Check my registration date.

It's not a “eternal blockchain growth”. You need to understand correctly what you're trying to disprove.

+1

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February 07, 2015, 10:45:28 PM
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This particular fork advocating eternal blockchain growth and never-full blocks should indeed be seen as an attack. Check my registration date.

It's not a “eternal blockchain growth”. You need to understand correctly what you're trying to disprove.

You have some homework to do.

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February 07, 2015, 10:48:03 PM
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Indeed, the idiots in the Bitcoin ecosystem today are numerous and they are much more of a liability than they are an asset.  Their job is done.  Disposing of them (as native Bitcoin core users) is yet another reason to look forward to a fork war.

Interesting.
You know I've always thought bitcoin should have an open door welcoming anyone. Young, old, educated, uneducated, rich, poor, doesn't matter. That's what makes it so special.

So are you suggesting your 1MB coin is going to consist of only a "special elite" that must meet or exceed a specific profile before entry? I'm mean you wouldn't want perhaps the lesser educated onboard would you? They must be disposed of right?

Mmmmmmm...

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February 07, 2015, 10:49:23 PM
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This particular fork advocating eternal blockchain growth and never-full blocks should indeed be seen as an attack. Check my registration date.

It's not a “eternal blockchain growth”. You need to understand correctly what you're trying to disprove.

You have some homework to do.

Thanks for reminding me, but we're not talking about my university education here.

An economy based on endless growth is unsustainable.
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February 07, 2015, 10:59:43 PM
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that must meet or exceed a specific profile before entry?

Yes. Precisely this. And you forgot that the 'specific profile' has to be maintained at all times to prevent exclusion.


Thanks for reminding me, but we're not talking about my university education here.

Being in college debt doesn't really count towards a proper education.
Not doing your fucking homework when ordered so does however score you a few points on the retarded piece of shit scale.

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February 07, 2015, 11:06:59 PM
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This particular fork advocating eternal blockchain growth and never-full blocks should indeed be seen as an attack. Check my registration date.

No need to check your registration date. You can talk normally and you don't throw shit like MP sock-puppets account do.

On to the subject. Why are you against the fork and against raising the block size limit?

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February 07, 2015, 11:07:32 PM
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that must meet or exceed a specific profile before entry?

Yes. Precisely this. And you forgot that the 'specific profile' has to be maintained at all times to prevent exclusion.

Thank you for confirming my suspicions and reinforcing my chain decision.

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February 07, 2015, 11:16:06 PM
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Thank you for confirming my suspicions

So you somehow suspected that Bitcoin is about money? Good job einstein.


Why are you against the fork and against raising the block size limit?

"Why are you against adding a fifth wheel to your car?".
Because my car moves perfectly fine with four wheels.

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February 07, 2015, 11:16:30 PM
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This particular fork advocating eternal blockchain growth and never-full blocks should indeed be seen as an attack. Check my registration date.

It's the fork that Satoshi long wanted. So you're implying he had been planning to his attack his own creation.
 
If Bitcoin does not remove the absurd 1 MB restriction, here is what will happen:

Fees will go up when the limit is hit, and people will start using another blockchain to do their transactions. Bitcoin will lose market share, and value, and thus mining revenues and network security will decline.

If the limit is raised, miner transaction fee revenue will continue to increase with transaction volumes, as it has historically:

In response to those claiming that a hard fork to increase the blocksize limit will hurt the miners' ability to collect fee revenue:

The empirical data we have so far does not support the notion that the miners will be starved of fees or that blocks will be full of low fee transactions if the blocksize limit is increased.  If we inspect the fees paid to miners per day in US dollars over the lifetime of the network (avg blocksize << max blocksize), we see that total fee revenue, on average, has grown with increases in the daily transaction volume.



The total daily fees, F, have actually grown as the number of transactions, N, raised to the power of 2.7.  Although I don't expect this F~N2.7 relationship to hold forever, those suggesting that the total fees would actually decrease with increasing N have little data to support this claim (although, during our present bear market we've seen a reduction in the daily fees paid to miners despite an increase in N.)

Past behaviour is no guarantee of future behaviour, but historically blocks don't get filled with low-fee transactions and historically the total fees paid to miners increases with increased transaction volume.    


To reiterate: without users facing scarcity created by a limit, average transaction fees have not trended to marginal miner costs, and total transaction fees earned by miners have increased. A dangerous scarcity experiment, at an absurdly low 1 MB/block, is extremely unwise.
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