Quote from: Carlton Banks on March 27, 2017, 03:15:08 PM

Quote from: iamnotback on March 27, 2017, 02:54:48 PM

Quote from: Carlton Banks on March 27, 2017, 02:42:25 PM

Everyone and anyone knows Bitcoin follows the longest chain, but also the chain with the most proof of work.

Welcome to 2010 (when Satoshi changed from longest chain wins to longest chain + most PoW wins).

You're playing irrelevant semantic definition of terms diversion. The longest-chain is the one with the most PoW in which the length is correctly calculated by cumulative difficulty.

Just because the longest-chain was incorrectly measured in the past doesn't mean that the longest-chain means today anything other than the "longest cumulative difficulty in a chain of blocks which are linked by cryptographic hashes". Do you really expect someone to write that quoted text instead of the short-hand "longest-chain".

Everything you're saying is a diversion anyway

Longest chain, most PoW, does not matter once the 2 chains are separate, they're separate coins at that point. And that is the point.

So, saying miners are compelled to follow the longest chain is meaningless. By that logic, there would be no altcoins in existence, as they would all have to observe the chain with the most PoW. Which is demonstratively untrue, to wit: a thousand altcoins.

You made 2 false claims. I've demonstrated them false.

Apologise.

You will need to apologize after you read what you were told to read:

Quote from: iamnotback on March 27, 2017, 02:37:29 PM

Read this post and then this page of the thread. I hope you can assimilate all that without me having to write a single post which tries to glue all that together for the reader.

If sufficiently organized, nothing can defeat the control of the whales (other than a larger economic whale such as the Chinese government).

And realize that the whales' can kill the fork because they already own tokens in both forks from the inception.

And that is what makes it different from launching an altcoin.

Details matter.

Now I've got important work to do. So please stop putting your foot in your mouth at my expense.