Re: Bitcoin core value? - miners will switch to Bitcoin Classic
So switching "padlocks thrown about on our lawn" for "garlands of garlic on our front door" proves your case....how? I provided numerous arguments that suggest this is an absurd analogy with no basis in reality.
You don't understand what an analogy is. Start learning here.
Here's the most common definition of "analogy":
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a·nal·o·gy
noun: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
noun: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
Did you or did you not make a comparison between "nodes", "padlocks thrown about on our lawn" and "garlands of garlic on our front door?" I didn't make those comparisons; you did:
1. You claim that the hundreds of padlocks thrown about on our lawn help secure our house.
1. You tell me that hanging garlands of garlic on our front door is essential for home security
Yes i did. For those failing to see parallels apparent to a household cat, I'll explain:
Garlic garlands, padlocks strewn about the lawn, and non-mining nodes are analogous, that is to say have a thing in common: They're all FUCKING IRRELEVANT TO SECURITY.
The similarities don't end here.
If one is challenged by some frustratingly dense douche to prove garlic's lack of efficacy in keeping out The Father of Lies, one is unable to do so, as one would be unable to prove nonexistence of unicorns and Easter Bunnies. Because proving the negative is notoriously difficult, if not outright impossible.
Go figure.
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Since I mounted considerable evidence that nodes are essential to network security, it is incumbent upon you to explain how nodes are comparable to either of those things.
No. You typed shitloads of words, which rarely corresponds to "mount[ing] considerable evidence." This subtle distinction eludes you too, I'm sure.
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Gaming the system, how? You've never read the bitcoin whitepaper have you?
It's not one-user-one-vote. My nodes are simply enforcing the consensus rules that the rest of the network is, i.e. honest nodes. How is that gaming the system?
And here you admit to gaming the very system you claim to support 
Oy vey, a core sybil attack! Halp!
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I'm running nodes to keep the network decentralized.
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I'm running nodes to keep the network decentralized.
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Oy vey, a core sybil attack! Halp!
Gaming the system, how? You've never read the bitcoin whitepaper have you?
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Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote
It's not one-user-one-vote. My nodes are simply enforcing the consensus rules that the rest of the network is, i.e. honest nodes. How is that gaming the system?
In that case, you disagree with the majority of Core supporters, who feel that one node = one "economic agent" (whateverthefuck that means) & thus nodes become a voice of the "economic majority" (whateverthefuck that means).
As far as reading the white paper, I did. Number of times non-mining-non-wallet nodes mentioned: 0 (zero).