Quote from: DooMAD on February 11, 2019, 11:13:35 AM

Quote from: deisik on February 11, 2019, 09:37:13 AM

Quote from: DooMAD on February 10, 2019, 09:45:59 PM

It's also worth pointing out that it's not just the BCH/SV crowd who appear to have jumped ship. I often wonder what happened to some of the militant hardcore "1mb forever" fanatics who used to post here frequently but now stay silent? Some of them clearly weren't happy with the capacity increase provided by SegWit. You can tell it's probably the right course of action if the extremists on both sides of the debate didn't like it

I'm not sure they were like the BCH crowd mentioned

Many of them were likely arguing in favor of "1mb forever" not because they actually were against SegWit (Lightning Network) or anything to that tune but rather because they felt they should have taken a more radical approach in fighting the BCH zealots, not being quite happy and content with the soft opposition to big blocks that the BlockStream members had turned to. In other words, they were not so much against the BlockStream camp as they were against the BigBlocks gang

This may have been true for a small number of people, but some of the more hardline fruitloops really do run a client that's based on an outdated 2014 version of bitcoind. They claim all coins stored in SegWit addresses will eventually be stolen, simply because they believe themselves to be the economic majority and think that ordinary people will somehow want to follow "their" network when their fork (that doesn't include SegWit) takes place.

I wish I were making this up, since they almost make the bigblockers sound sane by comparison. But sadly, they're very real.

That's sort of the jagged beauty of Bitcoin, to me, though. You get people doing whatever they want to do, believing in whatever they want to. There are various truths and various realities, neither of them true for a long time. I don't know who's sane anymore, nor who has the most correct approach. Time and posterity will be the judge of that. Personally, I'm pretty conservative but probably not radical... so I find myself following what I feel is closest to that.

If you're looking from the outside, there are people who think it's sad that people still believe in Bitcoin, whichever form it is they are using.