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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: [1000 unconfirmed transaction] Spam attack has practically ended for 2 days!
by
Alesis
on 19/03/2017, 20:08:56 UTC
Bitcoin network will not need the extra capacity of Bitcoin Unlimited as users began migration to other coins, cheaper to transact networks, you know their names.
Please name me a single viable alternative. By viable I mean the following:
1) Doesn't have an instamine / isn't a scam. (See Dash)
2) Isn't highly centralized / doesn't have a high king. (see Ethereum)
3) Doesn't have even worse scalability issues than Bitcoin. (see Monero)

Please indulge me.

Just goes to show how many people on Bitcointalk are actually running full nodes.
I'd say that the number is very low. A lot of people call themselves "Bitcoin enthusiasts", but they don't even have a single node running.
For all I know there are actually coins which solve most of these problems, but the problem is that pretty dodgy or weak coins tend to be the best at getting pumped and the owners best at profiteering, especially with coins like DASH which have a large instamine but can appeal to newbies who know less about that.