Quote from: cypherdoc on June 24, 2015, 05:10:34 AM

Quote from: tvbcof on June 24, 2015, 04:57:56 AM

Quote from: necrita on June 24, 2015, 04:12:56 AM

I concur with tvbcof that there may be an opportunity during the hard fork for people to speculate and make a fortune.

It looks like we probably won't even get a chance to play. The bloatchain fork looks like it will be stillborn at best. They'll probably give it up soon.

Even if not, in the best of circumstances playing these games would have been iffy since all Bitcoin-based crypto-currencies and probably all crypto-currencies generally would suffer a black eye that would take all of them down significantly for a good period of time. It still might be possible to play various differentials but it would be risky and a lot of work.

The good news is that as sidechains start to blossom it will click in even the most dense of minds (i.e., cypherdoc's) that hodling BTC is effectively a simultaneous bet on the success of any sidechain no matter what niche it fills. Further, since sidechains themselves will sprout like weeds to fill any empty space they will be very robust against attack. These two things in and of themselves could have a fairly dramatic increase in interest and in price for native BTC.

it's going to be fun watching you crawl.

you're reading this totally wrong as usual.

Specifically he must think the pegged side chains are going to be failure prone and or easy to attack forcing people to stay away from them.

He must think Gavinmike have cornered the world's developer talent pool.

Does he have any clue how many developers do not work on or with cryptocurrency related projects? The sky is wide open for providing an ecosystem for them and competing away from the paralysis of Bitcoin Core.