Quote from: arlene05973 on April 14, 2016, 08:21:01 AM

Patrick Byrne going on medical leave do you think his absence could slow down bitcoin transsaction on blockchain?

If this happen, will it still yield to increase in bitcoin exchnange rate?

I am shocked and saddened he's been taken ill and i agree that he's done a lot for bitcoin in general.

but, you probably don't know this but he wasn't intending to use Bitcoin for his T0 project to put trading/settlement on the blockchain.

he said at the miami conference earlier this year that they had tested a lot of them and was intending to use Peernova's private blockchain, although he confirmed they are blockchain agnostic.

he's been deliberately avoiding the issue for fear of offending people. even when he gave a talk at the Satoshi Roundtable last month, he implied he was using bitcoin and everyone in the room was happy... but when i asked him a direct question to confirm whether he was using bitcoin or some other blockchain, he confirmed that he wasn't using bitcoin because it couldn't do enough transactions per second. He wasn't planning to use a public blockchain and was ignoring the work thats gone on in layer 2 tech like lightning network and/or side chains.

its a shame that due to bitcoin's lack of capacity he has been forced to jump ship to a private blockchain.

-- Jez