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Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: kenCode on August 16, 2015, 02:47:47 pm

Title: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: kenCode on August 16, 2015, 02:47:47 pm: https://letstalkbitcoin.com/forum/post/upcoming-bitcoin-hard-fork-r-bitcoin-censorship

or retweet:
https://twitter.com/kenCode_de/status/632918114498424832
Title: Re: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: fav on August 16, 2015, 04:00:28 pm: BitcoinXT is just an altcoin without consent. and altcoins don't belong to r/bitcoin.

threads about bitcoin don't belong to bitshares discussion either btw.
Title: Re: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: Akado on August 16, 2015, 04:09:13 pm: Quote from: fav on August 16, 2015, 04:00:28 pm
BitcoinXT is just an altcoin without consent. and altcoins don't belong to r/bitcoin.

threads about bitcoin don't belong to bitshares discussion either btw.

It grew too much just to be ignored and removed from r/bitcoin. It's now a discussion about the future of bitcoin, how can that be ignored and remove? ...
Title: Re: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: kenCode on August 16, 2015, 06:22:37 pm: This bitcoin mess greatly affects us here at BitShares. 8)
Title: Re: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: roadscape on August 16, 2015, 10:48:59 pm: Quote from: kenCode on August 16, 2015, 06:22:37 pm
This bitcoin mess greatly affects us here at BitShares. 8)

Agreed.
Title: Re: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: xeroc on August 17, 2015, 07:15:51 am: Quote from: roadscape on August 16, 2015, 10:48:59 pm
Quote from: kenCode on August 16, 2015, 06:22:37 pm
This bitcoin mess greatly affects us here at BitShares. 8)
Agreed.
How so?

IMHO we already have a solution for the mess (approval voting for protocol upgrades) so that we can leave bitcoin behind ..
Title: Re: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: kenCode on August 17, 2015, 07:45:21 am: Quote from: xeroc on August 17, 2015, 07:15:51 am
IMHO we already have a solution for the mess (approval voting for protocol upgrades) so that we can leave bitcoin behind ..

Exactly.
Title: Re: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: montpelerin on August 17, 2015, 07:54:49 am: I haven't spent much time over there during the last year, as it seemed to me that any relevant criticism was constantly being shown the door, but ---

How often are these cold truths discussed in threads near the top of /r/bitcoin?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h7eei/greg_luke_adam_if_xt_takes_over_and_wins_the/cu53eq3
Title: Re: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: cass on August 17, 2015, 07:59:08 am: @ken: upvotes pls on marketing sticky post .. thx!
Title: Re: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: kenCode on August 17, 2015, 08:42:34 am: Quote from: cass on August 17, 2015, 07:59:08 am
@ken: upvotes pls on marketing sticky post .. thx!

I'd upvote you, but I don't see a post from you in the upvotes Marketing thread:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,9174.150.html

Lmk, I'll be glad to upvote you
Title: Re: Upcoming bitcoin hard fork & /r/bitcoin censorship
Post by: Helikopterben on August 17, 2015, 05:44:10 pm: IMO this is the first real test of nakamoto consensus, and I don't really see a failure scenario as many are predicting. Worst case scenario is that the network splits into two coins. One with larger blocks and one without, and I would not consider that a failure because the split in consensus would be so great that the only solution would be to split the network and allow individual users to follow whichever fork they like. The other scenario is for a supermajority to be found through nakamoto consensus and that system survive as bitcoin.

I predict we will quietly see blocks larger than 1 mb appear after the first of the year and no damage will have been done.