Quote from: QuestionAuthority on November 25, 2016, 03:46:30 PM

Quote from: Killerpotleaf on November 25, 2016, 03:19:25 AM

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on November 25, 2016, 03:05:58 AM

How can we increase adoption, make Bitcoin mainstream, and make it a one world currency so that no one in the world can actually spend any money. LOL

To the moon. ROFL

first make all users download the blockchain ( this is very important )
then you make them send their btc to a LN node
then they can timelock these bitcoins and open channels
then they can buy 30,000 separate cam shows and only pay 12$ in TX fee
they have to do this before their time lock expires and closes the channel ofc...

*image*
thats how its done.

The problem with that theory is that people don't like to be first and they want to see things work perfectly before they try them.

No one other than cultist bitcoiners will ever download the entire Blockchain. Hell, even I won't ever do it again. I lost my copy of the entire chain a little over a year ago, waited two days for it to never catch up and quit. I'm an SPV kind of guy forever after that. Pruning mode in the new clients is a joke and if you want to revert to a full node you need to redownload the whole thing again.

What are you going to do about laptop people? Over half of the people I know only own a laptop, believing it stupid to have both a desktop and a laptop when the laptop does everything they want to do. Most, if not all, of these "laptopers" have less than a 500gb SSD drive. Which would you prefer to do? Make them rearrange their lives to accommodate bitcoin by purchasing a dedicated bitcoin desktop or make Bitcoin the only thing on their laptop and run only a client with the prune=<500> switch set? Both options are not only ridiculous but will not happen because no one will do it when they can just use ApplePay or a debit card instead.

Really big blocks - when is that happening again?

For those that really didn't understand what I'm getting at:

Fix the fucking thing so it's capable of being used by more than a few hardcore bitcoiners worldwide and stop making excuses for its problems. Recognizing a problem is the first step toward a solution.

No one ever sits back and looks at what these average people would need to do to use Bitcoin or if they would be willing to do it at all. Currently, most wouldn't because they're too lazy.

One single stadium holding 1/3 the number of daily Bitcoin transactions worldwide. After nearly seven years that's a problem.

BTW: Why is Bitcoin still in beta after seven years? Most companies would go broke if they waited this long.