Happy Bitcoin Independence Day. A special walk down memory lane, for those who came to Bitcoin within the past five years:

List of services supporting UASF/BIP148: Are you ready for UASF?
pp. 317–318.
In memoriam, relevant to the Wall Observer in addition to being about Bitcoin.

Re: [ANN] Bitcoin Cash - Fork 1:1 of Bitcoin - Pro on-chain scaling

Quote from: Lauda on August 01, 2017, 02:10:41 PM

This thread is full of idiots who wants to lose money.

Re: Bitmain announces plan to create altcoin if BIP148 succeeds

Quote from: Lauda on June 15, 2017, 05:40:52 PM

Here's my small creation. Cheesy

Re: Bitmain announces plan to create altcoin if BIP148 succeeds

Quote from: Lauda on June 15, 2017, 02:30:53 PM

I have already stated that the ASIC monopoly and mining cartel are much more dangerous than any kind of scaling issues. Just so that we are clear, all these idiots in altcoins parading "we are the best, we will win next" will get crushed. This is the time to be watching and learning from Bitcoin, i.e. how Bitcoin combats and resists malicious actors such as Bitmain.

Re: Antbleed: A remote shutdown backdoor in antminers

Quote from: Lauda on April 27, 2017, 10:35:52 PM

Franky on ASICBOOST exposure: All is good. Ignore temporary drama.
Franky on AntBleed exposure: All is good. Ignore temporary drama.
Franky when someone mentions SegWit: "DOOMSDAY. TEMPORARY GESTURE. BLOCKSTREAM. BOMBS."
Cheesy

Re: Antbleed: A remote shutdown backdoor in antminers

Quote from: Lauda on April 28, 2017, 07:44:46 AM

Quote from: leopard2 on April 28, 2017, 01:27:25 AM

2. BU miners under Bitmain lead, have ASICBOOST, so they can invoke a 30% gain at any given time, on their own miners

This is partially correct. You're overestimating. ASICBOOST can save about ~20% in energy costs. However, at current profit margins of ~1% that translates to a ~2000% increase in profits.

Quote from: leopard2 on April 28, 2017, 01:27:25 AM

3. Now Antbleed has been revealed; a method that, until 48 hours ago, could have been used to destroy everyone elses Antminer on the planet at their discretion

Any Antminer that is not behind a 'disallow by default' firewall (which is very uncommon for home miners).

Re: SegWit dying off in spite of all your efforts

Quote from: Lauda on May 11, 2017, 09:53:24 AM

Quote from: jbreher on May 10, 2017, 11:00:17 PM

Hunh? I was always a BU shill.

FTFY.

Quote from: jbreher on May 10, 2017, 11:00:17 PM

I have also consistently (for about a year) pointing out that non-mining entities (which I had formerly been mistakenly been calling 'non-mining nodes') have essentially zero power to influence the network, and provide essentially zero value to the network at large. I have, though, stated that such non-mining entities are what allow their owners/users to transact in a trustless manner. Benefit to the owner, no benefit to the network.

Which is complete nonsense.

Quote from: jbreher on May 10, 2017, 11:00:17 PM

But what I have recently learned is that Satoshi's definition of 'node' is necessarily limited to entities that mine.

No.

Quote from: jbreher on May 10, 2017, 11:00:17 PM

So you know better than Satoshi?

The whole "satoshi" thing builds upon the assumption that miners are honest. We know today that this is not true (ASICBOOST, AntBleed, empty blocks, et. al.). Due to this, everything that you've quoted is nullified. The primary thing protecting the network from mining cartel abuse are the non-mining nodes. Do not get me started on Satoshi's failure to predict ASICs, and his 1 CPU = 1 vote does not mean 1 ASIC Miner = 1 vote. Otherwise you're basically saying that 1 Bitmain = Bitcoin (assuming they stopped shipping devices for a while and using all of them). Roll Eyes

Quote from: franky1 on May 10, 2017, 11:17:03 PM

what is

Quote from: Lauda on May 10, 2017, 10:43:45 PM

UASF or a POW change is coming, whether you like it or not.

yep mandatory changes, nuking pools, dis-communicating with the natives, does very much sound like government agency talk.

User-activated-soft-fork. Do you even Bitcoin?

(Those are only a few choice selections.)