Quote from: billyjoeallen on January 15, 2016, 12:30:00 AM

Quote from: becoin on January 14, 2016, 11:59:24 PM

Quote from: r0ach on January 14, 2016, 11:05:22 PM

He's basically claiming that if the blocks ever fill up, then Bitcoin has failed.

I have always suspected this guy is a clueless zombie. Quite the opposite, filled up blocks is not a failure but success! Economy is always about supply and demand. Success of a product or service you are offering is measured by how much demand is surpassing supply.

We're still at less than 50% of the ATH that occurred over TWO YEARS AGO and you call that success? The only money that's going into transaction fees is the money that's coming out of BTC market cap. You're effectively getting a negative return on the blockspace you're selling. Maybe you were sick the day they taught economics in Economics 101.

Scenario I: (25BTCblockreward+0.2BTCxactionfees)X($1100/BTC)=$27720

Scenario II: (25BTC+6BTCxactionfees)X($450/BTC)=$13950

Success my ass. You're either being stupid or dishonest.

There are a lot of ways to measure success besides your one tune marching band issues. You can look at a multitude of charts on blockchain.info, and you will see a lot of growth in bitcoin transactions and computing power. That's success.

You can also see a lot of development around bitcoin. That's success. You can also see a variety of innovations and lame attempts at imitating bitcoin. That's success.

You can also see recognition of major banking and educational institutions regarding the paradigm changing nature of bitcoin... what you call that?

Wait

wait

wait...

Success!!!!!!!

Stop trying to trivialize bitcoin with your doom and goom scenarios and whining because you are not getting your way... .

even if bitcoin fails or is imitated or loses market share, it has been successful... and at the moment continues to meet the definition of success, in spite of price and in spite of scaling controversies.