Blockstream jumps the shark.
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You will be treated like sites hosting malware, with hosts themselves severing ties ASAP before you taint their IP space.
Cheers.
The Nazis do. This is why they stabbed people in Seattle, this is why they called it a war, this is why one of them ran down civil demonstrators.
Just today Trump retweeted an image of a train running down a CNN reporter. The guy is a fascist lunatic who constantly eggs on his base into violence.
Show the damned transactions.
> with knowledge of notable events
The claim was very specific, show the damned transactions.
>i don't really care that i can't convince you
Because you can't show what the "spam" is let alone show who is "spamming."
The specific claim was that it was from "Roger Ver and his cronies," not that a mempool backlog exists.
Show the transactions you claim to be "spam," and identify the persons behind them. Go do it.
For fucks sake. Show the "spam," track it to an individual. The blockchain is transparent yet no one has done this.
This is what my other comment was about. Named users in the community have been made into horrific caricatures who are the basis for conspiracies no one is able to prove despite the transparency of Bitcoin itself.
They literally want to edit Satoshi's bitcoin whitepaper[1]. One of the supporters of editing the paper is theymos, who runs the censored Reddit sub.
I was banned there after reporting a violent user who was urging the torture of Jihan Wu[2] of Bitmain. Violent invective and hate directed towards races & nationalities somehow are not insta-moderated while mundane comments about Bitcoin itself get mod-queued forever? Its out of control there.
That lot is not to be trusted.
[1] https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/issues/1325
edit:
Response from support: "Hi xxxxx. This account is not affiliated with GitHub and we are looking into it."
Ain't no thang but a chicken wang.
I have a few deep biases against the Russian govt for reasons I won't delve into here. Despite this I believe in extradition laws as a tool of enforcement beyond borders and a means of political outreach/goodwill building.
If Russia made unreasonable demands then we would be right to turn them down. If they need assistance with something truly heinous and actionable then it feels like our duty to act upon it. These international interactions are just as important as education & commerce to building lasting diplomatic relations.
Yes.
If anyone remembers the vintage of this I'd love to dig an archived copy up.
Three years. People have been making issue tickets for three years about Bitcoin's block size.
"Core's" response was always to suggest an indirect fix to this by enabling SegWit.
>a masterpiece of engineering
Substantiate your claim.
>doubles the blocksize
Incorrect. 140% is the common number floated around.
>doubles the blocksize
140% block 'capacity' while using 400% more bandwidth. That is terribly inefficient.
>enables future efficiency gains
Substantiate your claims.
> and a laundry list of other improvements
Substantiate your claims.
>developed, tested, and released in _very_ short order.
Funny how Core halted development of Bitcoin for several years now up until now.
Now there is a frantic dash to get SegWit implemented as a fix to the block size issue even though it does not directly address it. What SegWit DOES directly affect though is the ability for Blockstream(Core) to roll out for-profit products that use Bitcoin as a settlement layer. This is the vision AXA[1] Strategic Investments and others have for Bitcoin and they are using their investments in Blockstream to make it happen.
[1] http://www.coindesk.com/investment-bank-axa-eyeing-bitcoin-f...
Problem is they have -not- been killing it 24/7.
This block size debate has been going on for years with Blockstream(Core) refusing to do anything about it aside from indirect fixes. Well before Bitcoin's 1MB blocks were full people were getting dismissed/deflected/denigrated due to bringing the subject up to the developers.
As the issue climaxed earlier this year Blockstream only proposed SegWit as a fix[1]. Segwit isn't even related to the block size issue directly. It is more applicable to Blockstream's business plans for rolling out for-profit Lightning Network nodes that use Bitcoin as a settlement layer.
So for years now Blockstream has done what? Threatened to edit[2] Satoshi's whitepaper while ignoring public consensus unless the public accepts their kludge of a 'fix?'
Fire Core. They are overtly driving Bitcoin away from the purpose it was created for, a "peer to peer electronic currency." They halted Bitcoin development after investment by AXA and others, turning their focus into creating for-profit products that use Bitcoin.
Fire Core.
[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/10028 [2] https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/issues/1325
They fear ramifications yet unknown.
This is cowardice.
God I wish this was still true. The internet is so fragmented now I have to have IPs in different nations for a unified experience.
Then you immediately launch into narrative, one that avoids detailing how Jihan doesn't control the hashrate. Individual buyers and operators of Bitmain's mining hardware do. You are attributing things in plainly incorrect ways.
>Bitcoin mining has never been as centralized as it is right now with one man controlling over %70 of the hash rate via multiple pools.
Nothing about the owners or the choices they can make with their hashrate. All some narrative about "evil Jihan."
Incorrect. It would make 'stealth' ASICBoost mining improbable but still possible overall.
> Therefore, BitMain has been launching FUD campaigns.
Substantiate your claim.
> proven to be due to spam
Show it. Just show it already. Its a transparent blockchain but no one can show this spam, identify how it is malicious, show where it is coming from.
Show the spam already. Like ASICBoost its an invisible horror used to terrorize people into supporting your narrative. This is not very nice.