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3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
BCH: designing a roadmap, part 1
4 years ago: commented on the article "The elephant in the room - BCH PoW fail?"
> that's my point. Why should access to cheap electricity make you have more say in the coin?
this and another comment shows you have a core misunderstanding of the basis of power in Bitcoin (Cash)....
4 years ago: commented on the article "The elephant in the room - BCH PoW fail?"
I'm not sold on your counter arguments to the logical conclusions that Satoshi had.
> "good guardians": I don't believe this is true for minority chains.
The incentive is not primarily about the min...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Resolving the IFP Situation"
> I fully support Jonald's "two-teams collaborating" approach - 100%.
Sounds good. What sounds better is a 5 team collaboration. There are now 5 different full node implementations for Bitcoin Cash!...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Resolving the IFP Situation"
Jonald won't do that, I am certain of this. The article and Jonald is clearly not unbiased and it would have been prudent to include a warning of conflict of interest.
If you re-read the article you...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Attracting more Bitcoin Cash developers"
> bitprim was one of the staunchest supporters of ABC's policies
Nobody was claiming otherwise... I thought you were a good reader!
The only mention of bitprim is the indisputable fact that their c...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Attracting more Bitcoin Cash developers"
> I understand people do not appreciate everything Amaury does so.... who is stepping up to compete with him in technical leadership?
To be clear, that is not at all what my post is saying. ABC is do...
4 years ago: published the article
Attracting more Bitcoin Cash developers
4 years ago: commented on the article "Article"
and didn't post any comments until 2 months ago.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Article"
he has no real history on this site, on reddit or other places older than 2 months.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Revisiting Ownership in Bitcoin"
Thank you, that is a really good logical response that absolutely clarifies things for me.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Let's talk about cryptocurrencies and their Enviro..."
The amount of electricity used is actually not much compared to other industries. Fun example is banking. Just think of all the big buildings they heat!
But as fun as this is, you have to remember th...
4 years ago: commented on the article "7 Impolite Thoughts on the Developer Fund"
> There are no threats of violence or jail-time if miners refuse to pay.
That is purely because they can take your money without violence. A miner that doesn't play loses its coinbase reward, against...
4 years ago: commented on the article "You lead and maybe I will follow"
Thank you for the tip!
> I think we must really not assume bad faith on any side
I don't see that either. What I see is that the named people are greedy and want to gain power for their own. Bitcoin...
4 years ago: published the article
You lead and maybe I will follow
4 years ago: published the article
You lead and maybe I will follow
4 years ago: commented on the article "New Mining Tax Proposal is a Reflection of SegWit2..."
You are correct in the title, but you seem to miss the subtlety.
The same people suggested SegWit2X that suggested this mining tax.
The reason is likely the same.
They force the people that want to...
4 years ago: published the article
You lead and maybe I will follow
4 years ago: published the article
You lead and maybe I will follow
4 years ago: published the article
Thoughts on developer funding
4 years ago: commented on the article "Thoughts on developer funding"
> there were never any salaries for abc
This is a misconception. Not sure why you think this. They got 800BCH on a "fundraiser". Roger said they paid half a million to them. And even well before that...
4 years ago: gave $0.10 tip to
"The Café"
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"Miner Enforced Intrastructure... a barrier to entry for smaller miners?"
4 years ago: gave $50.00 tip to
"Mythbusting: We need a developer-fund"
4 years ago: commented on the article "Thoughts on developer funding"
> but obviously this is not standard business
Why not? Or, more specifically, why should it not be a "standard business"?
4 years ago: commented on the article "Thoughts on developer funding"
I don't think it is speculative. I supported the points made. BU has money and they just signed up for funding a second dev full time. They are not the ones that need the money.
The proposal explicit...
4 years ago: published the article
Thoughts on developer funding
4 years ago: published the article
Thoughts on developer funding
4 years ago: published the article
Thoughts on developer funding
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why Mises would love Mitra; Bitcoin Cash‘s hidden..."
You wrote;
> Fast: Allows more smart contracts to be evaluated in the same time for the same hardware
Now, unless you intend to mislead by comparing said apples to oranges, this is where you claim i...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why Mises would love Mitra; Bitcoin Cash‘s hidden..."
but would you agree with the statement that the fact that it became a medium of exchange, out of nothing, is a great indication that we can't for sure say it will not become a unit of account?
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why Mises would love Mitra; Bitcoin Cash‘s hidden..."
> Can you give me the patent no.s
That's not how patents work. They don't get announced. Its allowed by the standards orgs. Read the linked article!
This is an **extremely** worrying attitude you dis...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why Mises would love Mitra; Bitcoin Cash‘s hidden..."
How can you claim it is faster than Script?
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why Mises would love Mitra; Bitcoin Cash‘s hidden..."
WebAssembly is "Fast, Safe, Well-defined, Hardware-, language- and platform-independent,
Compact and Efficient" is what you wrote.
Those are all superlatives. Your writing **implies** that they are m...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why Mises would love Mitra; Bitcoin Cash‘s hidden..."
So, just aware then.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why Mises would love Mitra; Bitcoin Cash‘s hidden..."
> WebAssembly
Ehm, web-assembly is created by the likes of Apple, Microsoft and Google.
This means that there are surely software patents on this, which will be "fair and reasonable" for any company....