Quote from: cbeast on February 22, 2016, 05:48:07 AM

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Quote from: adamstgBit on February 22, 2016, 04:00:23 AM

ONE more time for good luck

Sounds great until the whole July 2017 (maybe, pinky promise) ~~just in time for~~ one year later than the halving, part.

I suspect another player will soon jump in and steal away all their best devs. Blockstream will go bankrupt by years end.

Not a chance. They just sold their original roadmap as a compromise... and the miners bought it, completely. If anything, they all deserve bonuses, big ones.

Only until the Chinese figure out they got duped, dump their coins, and shut down the miners after the halving leaving a full mempool that won't ever be confirmed.

Nah, that's a BJA fullblockpocalypse scenario... I don't buy it. The marginal transactions drop off/growth stalls before that point. He argues that the car will blow up... I argue that it'll maybe be on half the cylinders, but still be rolling just fine. Wouldn't be an absolute survival situation for another 2 halvings or so... but we're talking about potential... and competition.

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on February 22, 2016, 05:49:03 AM

... or assuming good faith, they just figured out through an intensive analysis session by a group of the technically most-qualified adversarial minds bashing together, the most likely best-practice, secure and expedient way to increase transaction capacity of the bitcoin system for the foreseeable future.

But spin it how you like, you have with everything else.

Marcus defers to gmax, dr back, blue matt... and independent contractor luke jr. And in good faith, determines that this is simply as fast as we can technically go... safely... fine.

I have a hard time squaring that with their interest in an off-chain provider Blockstream... we can agree to disagree.

Look, I know that we're basically locked in till mid-late 2017 now. Let me get it out of my system. I won't drone on about this for the next 18 months. I'm not married to these coins, and hell, the ones I hold on to may go up in value all the same. My sales/buys and these words are my only influence in this market... neither are earth shaking.

Allow me my catharsis... Embarrassed