Bitcoin.com is not a scam, it is a URL. What is scammy about that? Further, in what way does the existence of such make me a scammer?
jbreher, just stop it.
By definition in the Whitepaper Bitcoin is the chain with greatest accumulated PoW.
I disagree.
Bitcoin White paper, first paragraph, Abstract:
Abstract. ..., accepting the longest proof-of-work chain as proof of what happened while they were gone.
Source:
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdfI don't get how can you disagree with the definition?
First of all, I don't read the white paper as gospel. But even if you do, also in abstract: "As long as a majority of CPU power is controlled by nodes that are not cooperating to attack the network, they'll generate the longest chain and outpace attackers." Therefore the abstract itself already says that the longest chain rule is conditional.
Edit from above:
Section 4. is even more explicit:
The majority decision is represented by the longest chain, which has the greatest proof-of-work effort invested in it.
If this isn't proof that using the word "Bitcoin" for anything other then BTC is a scam, I don't know what is.
It's not "gospel", it's definition. You can define other things yourself, but give Satoshi Nakamoto the right to define what Bitcion is.