Quote from: franky1 on November 17, 2018, 01:45:23 PM

bitcoin merchant adoption has DROPPED.

funny part is, it was your own words that highlighted that you know it. because in previous topics you admitted that coinbase and bitpay had to diversity their merchant payment tools to include altcoins because merchants were moving away from bitcoin

Link? Chances are, you either didn't understand my post or you're deliberately trying to twist the meaning of whatever it was I said. There's nothing wrong with merchants diversifying, because that doesn't mean they've moved away from Bitcoin. Show me a merchant that accepts all the major altcoins but not Bitcoin. Assuming you can find one, I don't think they'll stay in business very long.

Other coins succeeding doesn't mean that Bitcoin is failing. There's enough success to go around. It's not realistic to expect one cryptocurrency to be perfect at everything. Altcoins will naturally serve some niches in the market. That's perfectly healthy. Why fight it?

Quote from: franky1 on November 17, 2018, 01:45:23 PM

now customers when they go to merchants that accept crypto. get presented with a shopping cart that lets users choose which coin to pay with.
its no longer just bitcoin..

but hey all i see is lack of substance in your reply and just an insult.

come on atleast admit people do use other coins. im not saying th 99% of crap coins. but i mean the main ones like ethereum, litecoin for example.

What's wrong with people using other coins? Of course people use them. I have no problem with that. I'm looking forward to atomic swaps, as I've already explained to you on numerous occasions. Why would I be looking forward to atomic swaps if I didn't want people using other coins? Try to keep up.

You're the one saying that we shouldn't have LN because it would somehow promote other coins. I'm the one saying it won't promote other coins any more than exchanges already do.
You're the one saying Bitcoin is too slow and too expensive. I'm the one saying it's not a problem because Bitcoin has the strongest security and network effects and it's still fast and cheap enough to be useful.
You're the one saying other coins being accepted by merchants is bad news for Bitcoin. I'm the one saying "who cares?" because there's literally nothing wrong with that.

Stop whining about insults and come up with better arguments. Or better yet, click that 'ignore' button you're so fond of pointing out lately. I'm going to keep shooting down your FUD all the while you continue to make that such an easy task by being such a lousy debater.

Speaking of lousy arguments:

Quote from: franky1 on November 17, 2018, 02:17:47 PM

the devs that say bitcoins blockchain cant scale

It can scale, but not by merely tinkering with the blocksize and pretending that somehow fixes everything. It doesn't. And there are costs for doing that.

Quote from: franky1 on November 17, 2018, 02:17:47 PM

the devs that backtrack out of consensus

Users and miners determine consensus. It cannot be "backtracked" (did you get bored of saying "bypassed"?) because that's something that can only happen in your fantasy la-la-land.

Quote from: franky1 on November 17, 2018, 02:17:47 PM

the devs that chang code for personal benefit while ignoring community wishes

If the community wished for something different, they'd be running different code. You're the one who is ignoring community wishes because you don't respect the choice the community has already made.