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Can I get a supporter of BTC/BCH explain to me why it makes sense to do this on those blockchains rather than on a blockchain with actual Turing completeness, such as Ethereum?

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There have been some other answers, but I’ll add first, people may just want to bet BCH - if it’s possible to do, even with a limited instruction set, why not figure it out? Second, turing completeness is not a panacea, and as we’ve seen now several times, the expressiveness of Eth’s VM actually opens it up to more bugs.

Because of usage & volume... More users of BTC/BCH than ETH.

Is that really true in the case of BCH vs. ETH? I find that hard to believe given the number of ICOs / developers working on the Ethereum blockchain.

Ok - probably right for BCH.. my rush on posting, so my bad.

Not the best indicator but.. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/ vs https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/

But for BTC I'd say yes.

BCH has less users than ETH. I think the interest is that transactions in BCH are very low, and there are talks about enabling some 0-fee transactions:

https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-com-viabtc-join-miners-choice-i...

An important difference between BCH and ETH is that ETH has a lot of opcodes, but BCH is slowly enabling some of the opcodes that were created by Satoshi but later disabled.

There are absolutely not more users of Bcash than Ethereum.

Virtue compliance. Same reason you'd use ethereum.

because in bcash land they can convince the miners to include tx's with 1 satoshi fee, so they can bloat their chain with all kinds of junk like yours.org Good luck doing that in ethereum land.

They also hate volunteers who run BCH nodes, 32MB blocks will wear-out harddrives quickly.

Wrong. BCH will run in Raspberry Pis just fine thanks to UTXO commitments. No need for large hard drives.

https://www.yours.org/content/first-utxo-commitment-on-testn...

Your "wrong" is wrong. You still need large storage devices if you want to trustlessly verify transaction history.

Your "'wrong' is wrong" is wrong. Yo can verify transaction history with an SPV wallet.

A full node won't help you against an eclipse attack. And also not against a sustained 51% attack since miners can mine empty blocks on the minority chain, halting it.

A full node is good for increasing your privacy, disguising what addresses you're watching, but that's all.

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