From the article: > The amount of energy required to process a single bitcoin transaction could power 100,000 Visa card transactions. Well, there's a certain, well-known company in the space, backed in part by credit…
Not only that. The problem is that you can't just say "see I found a route A-D through B and C: ABCD" You actually have to be able to say: "See, I found a route A-D through B and C: ABCD and all nodes are sufficiently…
> Are you actually quoting reddit on yc? No, I am quoting you, not reddit. Reddit didn't write that comment. > Thus demonstrating that reddit vote brigading is occurring on yc? That doesn't follow, at all.
You mean, making comments like this one? > Bullshit. Whingeing shitheads that never contribute where it counts. Coinbase has done fuck all to contribute to bitcoin development except be cheerleaders for every asshole…
> It lets one party in a channel send arbitrarily large numbers of payments ("arbitrary" subject to the total payment value being capped to the channel capacity, as well as to the Bitcoin divisibility) to another…
Anyone who wants to invest there should read the T&C very carefully. See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/74mgka/why_bitfinexs_c...
> Segwit wasn't a hardfork, which makes it very different from this situation. How so?
> SegWit2x is basically the mining faction stealing the network away from the Core development group That language is very revealing: It never belonged to 'the Core development group' in the first place.
Another interpretation is that Bitcoin Cash is the necessary credible threat to get the rest of the folks onboard 2x.
> No active developers were part of the NYA. Some in the NYA have said that they agreed because they believed Core was party to the NYA. They were invited but declined:…
From the article: > The amount of energy required to process a single bitcoin transaction could power 100,000 Visa card transactions. Well, there's a certain, well-known company in the space, backed in part by credit…
Not only that. The problem is that you can't just say "see I found a route A-D through B and C: ABCD" You actually have to be able to say: "See, I found a route A-D through B and C: ABCD and all nodes are sufficiently…
> Are you actually quoting reddit on yc? No, I am quoting you, not reddit. Reddit didn't write that comment. > Thus demonstrating that reddit vote brigading is occurring on yc? That doesn't follow, at all.
You mean, making comments like this one? > Bullshit. Whingeing shitheads that never contribute where it counts. Coinbase has done fuck all to contribute to bitcoin development except be cheerleaders for every asshole…
> It lets one party in a channel send arbitrarily large numbers of payments ("arbitrary" subject to the total payment value being capped to the channel capacity, as well as to the Bitcoin divisibility) to another…
Anyone who wants to invest there should read the T&C very carefully. See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/74mgka/why_bitfinexs_c...
> Segwit wasn't a hardfork, which makes it very different from this situation. How so?
> SegWit2x is basically the mining faction stealing the network away from the Core development group That language is very revealing: It never belonged to 'the Core development group' in the first place.
Another interpretation is that Bitcoin Cash is the necessary credible threat to get the rest of the folks onboard 2x.
> No active developers were part of the NYA. Some in the NYA have said that they agreed because they believed Core was party to the NYA. They were invited but declined:…