If the only thing you care about is the fiat price of your coins, then frankly I don't give a shit what your opinion is. Freedom doesn't have a price tag. I stand firmly on the side of the argument that freedom is infinitely more valuable than some government IOUs. Obsess about those all you like, just don't expect anyone else to care.
Of course price matters you dumb autist. And I don't care if its against fiat. If BTC goes down against the oz of gold, it's a failure. If what you are doing gets your purchasing power down while centralizing the network with bigger blocks, then why would anyone support this unless they were getting mad fiat gains behind the curtain?
Hardforking bitcoin into several bitcoins = a mistake. Holders lose purchasing power and gain nothing in return, maybe the illusion that you are now more free because you forked bitcoin into an altcoin if you are stupid enough to think that.
And no one is stealing anything, you ignorant asshat. Stealing implies that someone owns the Bitcoin brand, so perhaps you could explain who that is, exactly? As far as I was aware, no one own or controls Bitcoin. Bitcoin is influenced by the code people freely choose to run. If it turns out that enough people want to run different code, that's not an act of theft. Either accept that, or go use some closed-source crapcoin like Ripple where no one has a choice.
No one owns the bitcoin brand, but it's obvious hardforking it and paying bribing miners with FIAT money so they mine your hardfork then try to claim that is the real bitcoin is a bitch ass move, but idiots like you would call this freedom and good for bitcoin. Get the fuck out of here.
I keep hearing about this bribery like it was some sort of documented fact. Where is the funding from this bribery coming from? Who, exactly, is bribing who? Do you have any actual evidence for any of these seemingly baseless accusations? If not, I'd ask that you stop talking shit.
https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/roger-ver-from-bitcoin-jesus-to-bitcoin-antichrist-69fc7a17c622Bitcoin Unlimited is the latest (soon to be failed) attempt, this time they tried bribing. Bitcoin Unlimited received a 500,000 usd donation and now additionally there is a
1 million dollar grant for alternative implementations. I think this kind of falls under the bribing part that I will discuss later.
It is important to note who are the main supporters of bigger blocks:
Roger Ver
Jeff Garzik: founder of bloq which is focussed on private blockchains
Blockchain.info: Ver invested in it
Coinbase: burning through VC money and desperately needing an excuse as to why theyre not growing fast enough
Bitmain: closely working with Ver for a while
Viabtc = Bitmain
Do you think if there is bribery going on they are going to make it public? connect the fucking dots you mong. Im not going to do the homework for you. If you think miners (the most profit seeking people in the game) and all of these devs with obvious ties to the government are hardforking bitcoin "for the good of bitcoin" because they are good samaritans you are deluded as fuck. Understand the game theory at play then come back and try to argue why your hardfork is good idea again.
And stop the pathetic appeals to authority about what Satoshi would or wouldn't have wanted. It's just getting sad now. Even Satoshi isn't in a position where they can tell people what to do (nor did they ever express the will to do so), so why do you think you are in a position to tell everyone what code they can or can't run? Everyone has a choice and you can't tell them how to choose. You and all the other authoritarian fuckwits on this board can go start your own DictatorCoin if you think you can force your views onto everyone else. That shit doesn't fly here.
I don't give a fuck about satoshi, but since you hardforkers usually appeal so satoshi, I did it myself to show that even satoshi was against it.
Hardforking bitcoin because fiat corporations are behind it is a bad idea objectively no matter who says it.
It sounds like you prefer the ideals of closed-source development where no one can fork the code, so what the fuck are you even doing here?
Last time I checked, it was Bitcoin Unlimited releasing closed source code. Segwit2x was making the slack and github private and Garzik is trying to put his bloq shit on there, Bitcoin XT had anti privacy shit on there, the list goes on. What have any of these idiots contributed to bitcoin other than get fiat corporations and miners on board by everyone knows how? Get real buddyboy.