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Re: Bitcoin XT - Officially #REKT (also goes for BIP101 fraud)
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Leinaded
on 06/09/2015, 18:33:17 UTC
I'm a little worried that in the future happens the same with bitcoin forks to what happened to GNU/Linux and Android. Google has turned an open source OS that advocates for freedom, free sharing among a collaborative community and privacy of its users to something that spies and monetizes you. Now most android apps ask permission to access your id, your phone no., google account data, etc. And you don't have the choice to install open source programs available to the Linux community that should work in Android because is based on linux distros. Android is being used by millions of users in barely five years of existence while Linux has a small percentage of the user community in its 20+ years of existence.

I hope it doesn't end happening the same in the cryptocoin world and the majority of the population end up using something like ETH while BTC becomes a cryptocoin used in niche markets for libertarians and tech savvy people. Usually people are attracted to fancy and flashy features while disregarding their own privacy or liberty in the long term, human nature I guess so I'm not very optimistic in that regard. I see all this turmoil as attacks to something governments and corporations can't control yet and maybe we'll end with a "controlled" cryptocoin a simple reedition of the dollar.