Quote from: mmortal03 on May 17, 2018, 05:17:08 PM

You mentioned your belief in an "original vision" being represented in BCH, so it's completely relevant. Saying I'm an "argumentative zealot who drank the blockstream AXA koolaid" is not a rational argument, it's a personal attack, based on a conspiracy theory that you seem to believe in, in the face of any alternative, reasonable explanations.

You're resorting to made-up conspiracy theory propaganda rather than referencing reasonable arguments.

It's fine that some people have decided to hedge their bets like that and try to stay neutral from an investment perspective (as long as you are holding *all* the Bitcoin forks in equal value amounts, if that's what you truly believe in), but from a philosophical perspective, you don't seem to be neutral at all. You seem to, instead, be interested in conspiracy theory attacks against Blockstream, personal attacks rather than reasonable points, and "big blocks now", which shows that you, on the contrary, aren't philosophically neutral.

The original vision of bitcoin was for on-chain scaling with miners competing in a competitive market for PoW mining of blocks with no barriers to entry, Blockstream changed that, and so BCH was forked to continue the original path, which leaves Blockstream and friends to create a second layer that forces users onto their LN which allows them to collect fees (i.e that's their 'business model', Blockstream is a business who happens to have enough of the core devs on staff to have stopped the common sense increase in blocksize last year). None of that is a conspiracy theory, or related to EDA, just the facts to neutral observers like myself.

Calling you a zealot is not a personal attack, look up the meaning, it describes what you're doing pretty accurately, don't take offense, you responded to me as as a partisan warrior in the bitcoin civil war - I'm not partisan at all bro, you are on one side, I'm on neither (or both depending on how you look at it)!

I'll repeat, I own both versions of bitcoin, I think scaling requires both block size increases AND second layer solutions, you are the one taking sides with passionate fervor.