Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ...

[r0ach]

Not sure how this thread died.  Blockstream/small blocks are anti-free market and still need to be overthrown.  If Lightning Network has any legs it should be able to compete fine against larger blocks.  Not allowing the free market to choose is the problem.

[iCEBREAKER]

Not sure how this thread died.  Blockstream/small blocks are anti-free market and still need to be overthrown.  If Lightning Network has any legs, it should be able to compete fine against larger blocks.  Not allowing the free market to choose is the problem.

This thread died with a whimper, not a a bang.  Death&Taxes got told "Not Tonight Dear."   

I wish you all the best with your "Bitcoin" "Unlimited" altcoin project.

[RealBitcoin]

Raise the fucking block sizes already.

There is nothing to debate here, better earlier than later, as later it could cause more damage.

[iCEBREAKER]

Raise the fucking block sizes already.

That will happen eventually, but Not Tonight Dear.

[Blue_Tiger73]

I definitely agree with this topic. 1MB size limit is great as it is anti-spam. There was quite a big debate about block sizes. The block size limit at the start of bitcoin was 36MB but they reduced it to 1MB in 2010 because of spam. You can read about that here.

[Zarathustra]

Raise the fucking block sizes already.

That will happen eventually, but Not Tonight Dear.

But soonish. Core's (blockthestream inc.) attempt to take over bitcoin got REKT.
They got competition by implementations that are ready for the next bubble.
Developer centralization is over. Totalitarianism doesn't work here.

[brg444]

Raise the fucking block sizes already.

That will happen eventually, but Not Tonight Dear.

But soonish. Core's (blockthestream inc.) attempt to take over bitcoin got REKT.
They got competition by implementations that are ready for the next bubble.
Developer centralization is over. Totalitarianism doesn't work here.

 

Not only that, downstream users, rely on Bitcoin Core because they know it has the expertise and stability. XT has nothing, in the short time of it’s existence, hardly any changes have been merged, and what has been has deep technical flaws. Meanwhile Bitcoin Core has made literally hundreds of improvements.

XT #REKT

[hdbuck]

Raise the fucking block sizes already.

That will happen eventually, but Not Tonight Dear.

But soonish. Core's (blockthestream inc.) attempt to take over bitcoin got REKT.
They got competition by implementations that are ready for the next bubble.
Developer centralization is over. Totalitarianism doesn't work here.

 

Not only that, downstream users, rely on Bitcoin Core because they know it has the expertise and stability. XT has nothing, in the short time of it’s existence, hardly any changes have been merged, and what has been has deep technical flaws. Meanwhile Bitcoin Core has made literally hundreds of improvements.

XT #REKT

lel, delusions all over the place.

[Meuh6879]

can someone have a more updated graphic ? Thanks 

[QuestionAuthority]

So the OP is gone forever? The biggest and most knowledgable Bitcoin advocate from back in the day is gone forever from the "official" Bitcoin forum. wtf

He didn't end up being a scammer like cypherdoc or goat did he?

On Topic: Keeping the spam restriction is a great idea. Probably not forever.

[brg444]

So the OP is gone forever? The biggest and most knowledgable Bitcoin advocate from back in the day is gone forever from the "official" Bitcoin forum. wtf

He didn't end up being a scammer like cypherdoc or goat did he?

On Topic: Keeping the spam restriction is a great idea. Probably not forever.

He did actually

[tvbcof]

So the OP is gone forever? The biggest and most knowledgable Bitcoin advocate from back in the day is gone forever from the "official" Bitcoin forum. wtf

He didn't end up being a scammer like cypherdoc or goat did he?

On Topic: Keeping the spam restriction is a great idea. Probably not forever.

He did actually

Firstly, I consider 'the most knowledgeable Bitcoin advocate' to be Stephen Gornick.  By a mile!  He is still around, but I run across his work as little now as I did often back in the day.

Secondly, I'm not aware of any blatant scammery that Gerald was involved in.  I may just not be paying close enough attention, so if you wish to expand on your statement that would be interesting.

I would note that 'old timers' who choose to be economically active (trying to set up a business or interaction with others, etc) likely did quite well.  A rising tide floats all boats as they say.  The fall-out is that many of them opened themselves up to various points of pressure as Bitcoin garnered the attention of the various 'powers that be.'  It is probably more common than not that 'old timers' are struggling to deal with their own success, and this should be considered when analyzing the ecosystem at a point in time.  Some of the unusual behaviors (usually simply dropping out, but sometimes more mysterious) could be explained as having come under external pressures of one form or another.

[brg444]

So the OP is gone forever? The biggest and most knowledgable Bitcoin advocate from back in the day is gone forever from the "official" Bitcoin forum. wtf

He didn't end up being a scammer like cypherdoc or goat did he?

On Topic: Keeping the spam restriction is a great idea. Probably not forever.

He did actually

Secondly, I'm not aware of any blatant scammery that Gerald was involved in.  I may just not be paying close enough attention, so if you wish to expand on your statement that would be interesting.

Was going to but was posting from my phone. I just was able to retrieve the info from my desktop. It kinda flew under the radar indeed. Here goes:

Gerald Davis a.k.a. DeathAndTaxes of BitSimple (BitSimple.com) and Tangible Cryptography (tangiblecryptography.com) sought out and accepted $600,000 in fiat and bitcoin from investors in January 2014. These funds were acquired by selling stock in Tangible Cryptography and were to be invested in BitSimple.com.

BitSimple.com shut down bank transfer operations in May 2014. The investors were not informed until August 2014. Mr. Davis was asked to consider dissolving the company in August 2014 after he reported a theft of around $25,000 and no banking accounts. Gerald Davis did not respond and failed to communicate to shareholders from August 2014 to January 2015. During this time a six figure amount of US dollars was redirected to Mr. Davis and members of his family.

In February 2015 Gerald asked us to vote for a company dissolution and scheduled the fist company meeting. The shareholders refused to vote for dissolution because promised finical reports were not delivered.

Gerald Davis then asked for more time due to personal reasons and this was granted. However at this time Gerald Davis is no longer communicating or responding to investors.

The BitSimple fiasco
Somewhere in early January 2014 (during a chat about immersion cooled high-density ASICs) DaT incidentally told me that he was collecting money for a seed funding of his BitSimple exchange service. I did not even thought about it twice but agreed to buy what is left and ended with 390k from a total of 1200k series A shares. With the total sum of $600k collected, my payment was a $195k equivalent in BTC. Iirc, all of the handful investors paid in BTC, which made this seed funding the first processed completely in the BTC domain. Shares were managed by the gust platform.

I was very well aware of the involved risk, but at the same time I felt it is not worse than putting my coins into pre-orders of mining equipment or into doubious bitcoin companies. After being defrauded and betrayed by so many, my hope was straight and simple: if there is one person to remain honest, it must be DaT - if he did not, it was time to leave this community.

What happened thereafter is what OP is reporting. I was very disappointed to realize that Gerald managed to spend the collected funds mostly to pay his employed family-members - even if most of the time the exchange was not operational due to a missing bank account. Even if this might be legal, it is very unethical and puts him and his intentions in a very suspicious light. Still, I was willing to accept this as business failure when the company is dissolved and remaining assets were distributed to investors (which would give us back some 15%). But shortly after the investors agreed to do so, DaT stopped communicating and is not reachable any more for the past 6 months.


This is a sad ending for a bright shining star.

You too, Gerald?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=998257.msg12620721#msg12620721

[QuestionAuthority]

So the OP is gone forever? The biggest and most knowledgable Bitcoin advocate from back in the day is gone forever from the "official" Bitcoin forum. wtf

He didn't end up being a scammer like cypherdoc or goat did he?

On Topic: Keeping the spam restriction is a great idea. Probably not forever.

He did actually

Secondly, I'm not aware of any blatant scammery that Gerald was involved in.  I may just not be paying close enough attention, so if you wish to expand on your statement that would be interesting.

Was going to but was posting from my phone. I just was able to retrieve the info from my desktop. It kinda flew under the radar indeed. Here goes:

Gerald Davis a.k.a. DeathAndTaxes of BitSimple (BitSimple.com) and Tangible Cryptography (tangiblecryptography.com) sought out and accepted $600,000 in fiat and bitcoin from investors in January 2014. These funds were acquired by selling stock in Tangible Cryptography and were to be invested in BitSimple.com.

BitSimple.com shut down bank transfer operations in May 2014. The investors were not informed until August 2014. Mr. Davis was asked to consider dissolving the company in August 2014 after he reported a theft of around $25,000 and no banking accounts. Gerald Davis did not respond and failed to communicate to shareholders from August 2014 to January 2015. During this time a six figure amount of US dollars was redirected to Mr. Davis and members of his family.

In February 2015 Gerald asked us to vote for a company dissolution and scheduled the fist company meeting. The shareholders refused to vote for dissolution because promised finical reports were not delivered.

Gerald Davis then asked for more time due to personal reasons and this was granted. However at this time Gerald Davis is no longer communicating or responding to investors.

The BitSimple fiasco
Somewhere in early January 2014 (during a chat about immersion cooled high-density ASICs) DaT incidentally told me that he was collecting money for a seed funding of his BitSimple exchange service. I did not even thought about it twice but agreed to buy what is left and ended with 390k from a total of 1200k series A shares. With the total sum of $600k collected, my payment was a $195k equivalent in BTC. Iirc, all of the handful investors paid in BTC, which made this seed funding the first processed completely in the BTC domain. Shares were managed by the gust platform.

I was very well aware of the involved risk, but at the same time I felt it is not worse than putting my coins into pre-orders of mining equipment or into doubious bitcoin companies. After being defrauded and betrayed by so many, my hope was straight and simple: if there is one person to remain honest, it must be DaT - if he did not, it was time to leave this community.

What happened thereafter is what OP is reporting. I was very disappointed to realize that Gerald managed to spend the collected funds mostly to pay his employed family-members - even if most of the time the exchange was not operational due to a missing bank account. Even if this might be legal, it is very unethical and puts him and his intentions in a very suspicious light. Still, I was willing to accept this as business failure when the company is dissolved and remaining assets were distributed to investors (which would give us back some 15%). But shortly after the investors agreed to do so, DaT stopped communicating and is not reachable any more for the past 6 months.


This is a sad ending for a bright shining star.

You too, Gerald?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=998257.msg12620721#msg12620721

Holy shit, I was half joking. And such a cliché thing to do too. That means he scammed in exactly the same way goat did, issuing a security. I thought the days of GLBSE were over. Thanks for the info.

BTW: I agree Stephen Gornick is great but I still see him around. DnT not so much.

[tvbcof]

...

Holy shit, I was half joking. And such a cliché thing to do too. That means he [Gerald Davis, aka Death&Taxes] scammed in exactly the same way goat did, issuing a security. I thought the days of GLBSE were over. Thanks for the info. ...

2nd'd

[Holliday]

Holy shit, I was half joking. And such a cliché thing to do too. That means he scammed in exactly the same way goat did, issuing a security. I thought the days of GLBSE were over. Thanks for the info.

There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

[QuestionAuthority]

Holy shit, I was half joking. And such a cliché thing to do too. That means he scammed in exactly the same way goat did, issuing a security. I thought the days of GLBSE were over. Thanks for the info.

There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

[Equilux]

...

Holy shit, I was half joking. And such a cliché thing to do too. That means he [Gerald Davis, aka Death&Taxes] scammed in exactly the same way goat did, issuing a security. I thought the days of GLBSE were over. Thanks for the info. ...

2nd'd

Holy shit indeed, that's sad

[hdbuck]

...

Holy shit, I was half joking. And such a cliché thing to do too. That means he [Gerald Davis, aka Death&Taxes] scammed in exactly the same way goat did, issuing a security. I thought the days of GLBSE were over. Thanks for the info. ...

2nd'd

Holy shit indeed, that's sad

That's reality.

[marcus_of_augustus]

So the OP is gone forever? The biggest and most knowledgable Bitcoin advocate from back in the day is gone forever from the "official" Bitcoin forum. wtf

He didn't end up being a scammer like cypherdoc or goat did he?

On Topic: Keeping the spam restriction is a great idea. Probably not forever.

He did actually

Secondly, I'm not aware of any blatant scammery that Gerald was involved in.  I may just not be paying close enough attention, so if you wish to expand on your statement that would be interesting.

Was going to but was posting from my phone. I just was able to retrieve the info from my desktop. It kinda flew under the radar indeed. Here goes:

Gerald Davis a.k.a. DeathAndTaxes of BitSimple (BitSimple.com) and Tangible Cryptography (tangiblecryptography.com) sought out and accepted $600,000 in fiat and bitcoin from investors in January 2014. These funds were acquired by selling stock in Tangible Cryptography and were to be invested in BitSimple.com.

BitSimple.com shut down bank transfer operations in May 2014. The investors were not informed until August 2014. Mr. Davis was asked to consider dissolving the company in August 2014 after he reported a theft of around $25,000 and no banking accounts. Gerald Davis did not respond and failed to communicate to shareholders from August 2014 to January 2015. During this time a six figure amount of US dollars was redirected to Mr. Davis and members of his family.

In February 2015 Gerald asked us to vote for a company dissolution and scheduled the fist company meeting. The shareholders refused to vote for dissolution because promised finical reports were not delivered.

Gerald Davis then asked for more time due to personal reasons and this was granted. However at this time Gerald Davis is no longer communicating or responding to investors.

The BitSimple fiasco
Somewhere in early January 2014 (during a chat about immersion cooled high-density ASICs) DaT incidentally told me that he was collecting money for a seed funding of his BitSimple exchange service. I did not even thought about it twice but agreed to buy what is left and ended with 390k from a total of 1200k series A shares. With the total sum of $600k collected, my payment was a $195k equivalent in BTC. Iirc, all of the handful investors paid in BTC, which made this seed funding the first processed completely in the BTC domain. Shares were managed by the gust platform.

I was very well aware of the involved risk, but at the same time I felt it is not worse than putting my coins into pre-orders of mining equipment or into doubious bitcoin companies. After being defrauded and betrayed by so many, my hope was straight and simple: if there is one person to remain honest, it must be DaT - if he did not, it was time to leave this community.

What happened thereafter is what OP is reporting. I was very disappointed to realize that Gerald managed to spend the collected funds mostly to pay his employed family-members - even if most of the time the exchange was not operational due to a missing bank account. Even if this might be legal, it is very unethical and puts him and his intentions in a very suspicious light. Still, I was willing to accept this as business failure when the company is dissolved and remaining assets were distributed to investors (which would give us back some 15%). But shortly after the investors agreed to do so, DaT stopped communicating and is not reachable any more for the past 6 months.


This is a sad ending for a bright shining star.

You too, Gerald?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=998257.msg12620721#msg12620721

such a sad stereotypical pattern emerging ... capital accrues in worthy hands in a healthy system.