IMightBeAPenguin

@IMightBeAPenguin · 2 years ago

It's been a while since I've gotten into any serious discussion about decentralized and robust consensus mechanisms in crypto. So far, I've been looking at the current trends, and it seems like 'Proof...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Why I No Longer Support Big Blocks

After thinking about the scaling debate and really starting to educate myself on Bitcoin, I thought I had a lot of knowledge on how to scale Bitcoin by increasing the blocksize limit. Little did I rea...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

How Scalable is Bitcoin?

It's interesting to see after the whole scaling debate how far tech has come in terms of SSDs, hardware processing, and internet speeds have come. I remember being back in 2015 seeing SSDs cost almost...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Why Low Transaction Fees Are Not an Issue for Bitcoin

I would like to apologize for not posting an article in a very long time. While I have been able to post and comment on r/btc, I have been busy with University, and I haven't come around to making art...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Big article coming soon! It's going to be split into several parts, and goes into depth on the current state of Bitcoin, the crypto community, and what is going on behind the scenes! ;)

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Bitcoin Cash: The Race to Becoming the Dominant Chain Before the Next Halving (3.5 Years)

Note: I've made this article because I feel that mass adoption is extremely important for moving BCH forward (I know, obvious) given the advantage we have with the new DAA fix. With ASERT being put on...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

The Economics Behind Big-Block Bitcoin: An In-depth Analysis

Not too long ago, I made an article called The economics of a high volume, low-fee Bitcoin market. In that article, I went over a hypothetical scenario in which fees are extremely low, and Bitcoin C...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Bitcoin Cash: Governance Changes Moving Forward

With the recent conflict in the Bitcoin Cash community, it feels like a split is inevitable and this could potentially be the final nail in the coffin for Bitcoin Cash as a project. For me this is pos...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Bitcoin Cash: Thoughts Moving Forward

From the recent chain of events in this last month (haha, pun not intended), it looks like ABC is going to intentionally cause a split so they can implement their own 'IFP' into the protocol. It looks...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Proposal: BMP with Mining Pools and 'Locked' Hashrate for Voting

For the upcoming issues with governance in Bitcoin Cash, it's at least clear that the majority of the is against the proposal of the Grasberg DAA, and there currently is no good form of voting on this...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Bitcoin Cash: Nowhere Near Dead, but a Long Way to Go...

With my last article, I feel like I spread a little bit of negativity about Bitcoin Cash, but I was just stating my concerns for the future of it, considering the current state of development and the...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

How NOT to Run a Community Project

I've been paying attention to the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem lately, and how development is going. People have legitimate concerns about the usability of Bitcoin Cash, and the future of it as a technology...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Hey guys, sorry if I'm not active on Reddit. Someone on Reddit falsely reported my post of the emails between Peter Todd and John Dillon as doxxing material, resulting in the post getting deleted by R...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

A Closer Look Into "Who Funds Bitcoin Development?"

Not too long ago, BitMex Blog made an article titled Who Funds Bitcoin Development , back in March of 2020. Though our "conspiracies" may have been right all along, I decided to do some research beca...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

A Mining Software to Help With More Complex Mining Profitability Calculations (WIP)

This is going to be a brief article, but what I just wanted to say that I am currently in the works of making a mining profitability software that will be useful for calculating mining profitability c...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

I'm planning on making an article soon covering the funding behind Bitcoin Core, and how the VC capital investors are connected! Hopefully it goes well!

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Ideas for Spreading Bitcoin Cash Adoption

I've been staying updated with the Bitcoin Cash community for a while, and I appreciate the efforts the community has taken to spread adoption (through merchants, and other ways of making the technolo...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Bitcoin Cash is a Threat

When it comes to Bitcoin Cash, the coin gets a lot of hate from outside communities (specifically ones that are censored) including r/Bitcoin and r/CryptoCurrency. I know for a while, I didn't take Bi...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

The economics of a high volume, low-fee Bitcoin market

When it comes to Bitcoin, there are two schools of thought on how the economic system should work. The first one of these is that Bitcoin should be a wealth transfer system in which low-frequency, hig...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

A Healthy Amount of Speculation is Important for Moving Bitcoin Cash Forward...

When it comes to r/btc, a lot of people in the Bitcoin Cash community don't seem to care about price at all when it comes to Bitcoin Cash. Just today, it lost a crazy amount of value, and is now worth...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Why A Premature "Fee-Market" is Unsustainable for BTC

One of the many talking points that those in favour of BTC have are that the maximum block size should be intentionally kept low so that a fee market can develop. The reasoning behind this is the fact...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

What Bitcoin Cash urgently needs to become successful in its goal as peer-to-peer electronic cash

When it comes to Bitcoin Cash as a cryptocurrency, the fundamentals are strong, and so far it seems like there are a lot more features coming to it in the future, but there's one thing about Bitcoin C...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

How Bitcoin Cash Can Get in the Spotlight Again

Bitcoin Cash has got a lot going for it, but unfortunately, it seems like the market doesn't realize the full value of utility yet, and if we can get the market to realize the full value of utility fo...

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@IMightBeAPenguin · 3 years ago

Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash Transaction Fees (High Transaction Throughputs)

Source A lot of people claim that the only reason Bitcoin Cash is cheap is because nobody uses it, and no transactions happen on it. I did my own research, and using bitinfocharts.com (a very us...

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