Did satoshi avoid this in purpose to avoid possible game theoretical incentive problems so he made it strict bitcoin without side use cases?

I don't see "bigger hubs" being a relevant factor - or even a useful description - as to why these "bigger hubs" would be more attractive than one I spun up on a different server.  What would they offer that someone couldn't duplicate quite easily? :-)

I can spin up a lightning daemon on one of my existing web servers quite quickly.  And I could add bitcoind to it easily if it wasn't already on a particular machine.  The barriers to entry are low.  The cost on an existing server is negligible, but it can bring in revenue.  It may be that this increases the number of bitcoin nodes because of this.

Except one crucial difference.

ENOUGH OF THIS BULLSHIT! WE HAVE A FIRST-MOVER

Bitcoin Classic is splitting off


Bitcoin is finally saved! Bitcoin Classic has decided to end this BullShit SegWit vs. BU drama by simply splitting off. This is actually a really good news because we get the good old Bitcoin back and we can be sure they are not trying to implement anything crazy and dangerous such as the SegWit soft fork hack or ermergent consensus. Both suck. Bitcoin Classic is the way to go, we get block size increase and gradual enhancements to the Bitcoin protocol. I'm with Bitcoin Classic.

thats a bitcoin DNS seed

LN has its own DNS seed..
remember rusty russel of LN is a blockstream employee
remember Cdecker is LN is a blockstream employee - https://github.com/cdecker/lseed


edit
to counter the fail of calling it Fud/conspiracy from trainwreck

the DNS seed that controls the routing.... obviously

To be entirely fair, it was core supporters who artificially crashed the market by selling 20k btc on bitfinex and gdax after the first xt block was mined. So if anything, the selloff was core supporters trying to manipulate the price...

             Bob          Cindy
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              v              v
alice < > blockstream/DCG < > Felicia
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              v              v
            Dave        Eddie

typical

I`m newbie in many things, can you please explain to me what is the difference between real and fake bitcoins? How can we notice the difference?
I understand that some dev`s have different opinion on how should bitcoin be upgraded, many things are complicated for me to understand, can someone clear up things for me?
Whom to trust, I noticed some names, and many people argue what is right, and everyone tell some other story. I`m ordinary man, and I think there is many people here just like I`m, how can we know who tells the truth and really wish good for bitcoin, and who is looking for fast profit?

Hello;

I want to contribute and help bitcoin network. The first thing comes to the mind is "mining" or "being a bitcoin node"

I'm really up to hosting a node, but i'm scared of the law side of this thing. (I may help a drug money without knowing) or something like that. But i want to be a part of this network and help it for free.

Please share your ideas.

Thank you!

this is a shitty thread but this is an angle that's often rolled out that doesn't quite ring true for me. that's like some fat mom in an arkansas backwater deciding she wants to run for president. you can certainly do so and no one's gonna stop you. no one's gonna pay you the slightest attention either.

every human on earth huh? do you know every human on earth? are you inside the mind of every human on earth? if you say many human beings are religion minded i would agree with you. but you both cross the line from being correct to over exaggerating. you do you speak for every human on earth. if you want to be taken seriously choose your words more carefully.

I was thinking about the person that accidentally sent about 300 btc as a fee and .001 as the transaction amount, and it occurred to me that some simple logic could be put in place to avoid that. Just add a check to see whether the tx fee is larger than the amount being transferred and if so, either warn the user or reject the transaction or whatever. I don't recall what wallet he was using, but I haven't heard that any wallet has such simple logic yet....