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Joined Sep 03, 2018

Bitcoin has forked to preserve its quality as "peer-to-peer electronic cash". Forking is a way to upgrade the protocol and resolve contentious disputes.

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"gigamegs"

Facepalm. This guy literally has no clue. A fool and his money are soon parted, along with the money of the fools who believe him.

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Does Monero's adaptive block size limit show that Bitcoin/BCH can entrust the cap to an algorithm instead of relying on development teams (+ miners + other economic players of course) for stepwise increments?
yes 0 votes · 0 satoshis
not enough data 1 votes · 2,000 satoshis
no 0 votes · 0 satoshis

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Ok, here's my criterion for believing any company has an "AI" supporting it's service.

<ring ring>
Front desk: How may I help?
Me: I heard there's an AI working for you, I'd like to speak to it, can u put me thru...
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SBI Virtual Currency, one of licensed exchanges in Japan, decides to delist BCH

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OKEx has no intention to delist BSV for the time being.

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Are we seeing the first major blockchain trade war, with exchanges de-listing BSV after the prior threats against exchanges and threats of "no trade" from nChain's "chief scientist"?

First Binance, now Shapeshift...
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Assuming professional skills to compile a quality specification of the BCH protocol's consensus, p2p protocol and RPC API, and let's say 100K USD p.a. average for manpower...

Your estimate for cost of a spec?
up to $100K 4 votes · 9,443 satoshis
up to $200K 0 votes · 0 satoshis
up to $400K 0 votes · 0 satoshis
up to $800K 0 votes · 0 satoshis
disagree with estimate premise (please comment) 0 votes · 0 satoshis
more (specify estimate in comments) 0 votes · 0 satoshis

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Rate the chances for a comprehensive Bitcoin Cash protocol specification, encompassing the consensus parts, p2p protocol and RPC API, to emerge within the next 2 years.
0% 0 votes · 0 satoshis
< 5% 0 votes · 0 satoshis
< 75% 1 votes · 8,888 satoshis
< 25% 0 votes · 0 satoshis
no idea 0 votes · 0 satoshis
< 1% 0 votes · 0 satoshis
100% 1 votes · 0 satoshis
< %50% 0 votes · 0 satoshis

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"While there are many steps you can take to protect your own privacy, the real protection comes when we recognize that privacy is a team sport."

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I don't want to be a #hodlnaut.
I'm going to be a #cashtronaut when I grow up.
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Pst @cz_binance , could you maybe tell Tether to get an audit or threaten a USDT with delisting too?

Much popularity awaits /s
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"Towards Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrency Valuation: Mining Games, Network Effects and the Social Value of Blockchain" (2019)
Savva Shanaev. Arina Shuraeva. Mikhail Vasenin. Maksim Kuznetsov
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Cryptocurrency Value and 51% Attacks: Evidence from Event Studies
(2018) Savva Shanaev. Arina Shuraeva. Mikhail Vasenin. Maksim Kuznetsov

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3290016
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pokkst on Twitter DM:

"im temp suspended"
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Looks like Ecuadorian embassy invited police in, who arrested Julian Assange.

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The Case for Electronic Cash: Why Private Peer-to-Peer Payments are Essential to an Open Society - by Jerry Brito

https://coincenter.org/files/2019-02/the-case-for-electronic-cash-coin-center.pdf
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We are living in the past-1984 era, newspeak is ubiquitous.

e.g. "tax fraud" no longer refers to the fact that someone duped us into believing taxation is something other than legalized theft.
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If you don't believe the Ripple army is real, have a look at the replies 🤣

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Let's try some tongue in cheek :-)

*** BCH miners: I'm gonna build big block chain and make BTC and BSV pay for it. ***
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