Quote from: mindrust on January 17, 2018, 06:07:39 AM

Why don't you man up and speak louder?

Put it in big bold fonts "bitcoin cash is bitcoin!!1!" Are you afraid?

Stop pretending any of these coins are better than the other. Zero of them have fundamentals. 0 is not > 0:

Quote from: realr0ach on January 17, 2018, 05:52:38 AM

Quote from: thejaytiesto on January 16, 2018, 06:13:17 PM

Still haven't seen a good reply by you addressing how gold's supposed "organic total supply" is better than following hard-coded rules. Money it's all a social construct so people don't kill each other... why not have it as a clear, open source set of rules

That was the most statist, bullshit answer I've ever seen. It reminded me of that Mefobills guy from Zerohedge who everyone pretends is smart, yet all of his solutions revolve around giving govt 100% power and control over everything. There's no such thing as "clear, open source rules". Who are these "rules" created and enforced by? Force is the only valid consensus mechanism. If it has no force, it's not actually a rule. There are only two methods of consensus, either using force to make convergence happen, or relying on the aggregate of all actors (aka invisible hand of the market) to form a functioning Schelling point.

Bitcoin was modeled after a war game exercise, and the PoW function mimics this force variable, but it's fake force. Force in the real world always takes precedent over any imaginary, digital force. Bitcoin has built-in middlemen and doesn't remove counter party risk. Transactions are not blinded either. If some govt goons want to come stand in the mining buildings while labeling anyone who doesn't worship them as terrorists and block their transactions, it's not a monetary system, it's a permissioned ledger aka tyranny.

This is why anyone who supports such garbage that doesn't remove middlemen or counter party risk is inherently a statist. You're claiming everyone on the planet must be at the mercy of variables outside of their control instead of being able to take their life in their own hands. Since it's not actually possible to create a decentralized digital currency, and they're generally all completely arbitrary, dysfunctional, designed to centralize, Rube Goldberg machines that don't remove middlemen or counter party risk, you would need to be a complete fucking fool to think such a thing could compete with the fundamentals of noble metals as the base of Exter's Pyramid.

If you are not mentally deficient and have identified the fundamentals of things like metals as having better store of value properties (how could an imaginary object that functions as a permissioned ledger due to not removing middlemen have good store of value properties?), then you would know the only possible way for cryptocurrency to win is by the state forcing them on people. Once again making you a statist if you advocate them because the invisible hand of the market would never value their monetary fundamentals like being a store of value as higher than metals.