Quote from: hdbuck on January 19, 2016, 08:04:19 PM

Quote from: Zarathustra on January 19, 2016, 07:58:07 PM

A nullcoin in the making:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/41ps56/q_for_gregory_maxwell_would_it_be_within/cz49v1l

If miners want to play dictators, going separate ways seems logic.
Bitcoin certainly does not need 4 corporate mastodonte ruling over.

http://qntra.net/2016/01/recent-bitcoin-direction/

Y'all been warned. Grin

http://deedbot.org/deed-393913-1.txt

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To any miners contemplating deserting Bitcoin in favour of pursuing an USG-sponsored would-be competitor :

1. Bear in mind that the actual Bitcoin chain, with a patch to disable current ASIC miners, will continue to exist, and will continue to be used.

2. Make sure that you obtain ~upfront~ payment sufficient to cover whatever The Most Serene Republic might dump on your alternate chain plus whatever you yourselves need to sell in order to cover your own costs. You will not be able to return after you leave, nor will your capital goods have any further utility in this world.

3. Remember that your pontifical "allies", while very much inclined to promise and posture, have an unbroken track record of not actually delivering upon those promises. In this case, as generally the case with them, they don't even actually have the resources to indemnify you in the first place.

That is all.

In other words, sorry for your loss. ^^

This sounds interesting, I was wondering when qntra would weigh in on this.

Point #2 sounds a bit ominous. I'm left wondering where all this will end up lately but it does seem as if these guys care about keeping Bitcoin free of gov influence.