Alternatives to Western Union

However he's possibly not as dumb as Surfcrest who, if he has ever read Sun Tzu, has not grasped how to apply what he has read so as to comprehend other people :ymdevil:
Speaking of the Art of War, I just slit BrisbaneGuy's throat...I'd do the same for you, but I like to keep my enemies closer.
And you thought I didn't know how to get you to do what I want. Now all you have to do is work out what it is that I wanted you to do. =))

[Surfcrest]

And you thought I didn't know how to get you to do what I want. Now all you have to do is work out what it is that I wanted you to do. =))
You are the Master...baiter!

Surfcrest

[christianpfc]

ChristianPFC: "Only know do I come to read the recent development of this thread and the ramification of the bitcoin discussion and Bruce's board." What ??
After reading others' misspellings all the time on this board (and occasionally sending a message to Surfcrest asking him to fix it - just to let you know what kind of messages owner/moderator has to deal with), now homophonitis has infected me as well: it should be "only now do I come to read". Thank you for pointing this out, Nirish guy.

Or it was because I hung out with LMTU several times, do you remember his classic on (whoever it was)'s death:
"May his sole rest in piece"

[Tobi]

BitCoin to be renamed BitEar. http://d.pr/1hsUk

[Mancs]

Part of a poem by Mike Samford:

You are a homophone for the human race.
Are we not all homophones of each other?
A complacence to complaisance,
and effect to an affect, a tear to a tear,
the sole of a soul.
A homophone like you may be too
large a subject for one poem,
too complicated, too complex.

So, I will write about my cat instead,
a car ran over him yesterday
he is dead; and I have, in my fridge,
a half can of cat food in a plastic bag
useless and taking up space
and there is no homophone for that.

[Tobi]

Prominent Bitcoin Developer Declares the Digital Currency a Failure

http://time.com/4182120/bitcoin-develop ... y-failure/ (http://time.com/4182120/bitcoin-developer-digital-currency-failure/)

[cdnmatt]

That's just Mike Hearn being an idiot again.

You can treat him the same as pubic lice. Kicking and screaming in pain until he dies, and becomes non-existent.

He and Gavin gambled, and they lost. Now they're bitter about it.

[Tobi]

That's just Mike Hearn being an idiot again.

So none of the following is true?


Think about it. If you had never heard about Bitcoin before, would you care about a payments network that:


тАв CouldnтАЩt move your existing money
тАв Had wildly unpredictable fees that were high and rising fast
тАв Allowed buyers to take back payments theyтАЩd made after walking out of shops, by simply pressing a button (if you arenтАЩt aware of this тАЬfeatureтАЭ thatтАЩs because Bitcoin was only just changed to allow it)
тАв Is suffering large backlogs and flaky payments
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тАж which is controlled by China
тАж and in which the companies and people building it were in open civil war?
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IтАЩm going to hazard a guess that the answer is no.

https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-reso ... .uwi6x6qrr (https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.uwi6x6qrr)

[cdnmatt]

False, false, false, false, somewhat true, somewhat true.

Mike and Gavin started something called "Bitcoin XT", and basically tried to hijack the entire currency / network. It failed miserably, and just so happens, Jan 2016 was their self-imposed deadline for the majority of users to switch over to "XT". Didn't happen in the slightest measure, so now they're acting like little kids, and throwing a fit. Just ignore him, he'll go away in time. You can expect bitcoin to continue humming along just fine though.

[Tobi]

False, false, false, false, somewhat true, somewhat true.

You really, really sure about this? I'm finding with just a cursory search a lot of people agreeing that all the above is happening, ie.


Why is Peter Todd allowed to merge bizarre dangerous crap like this, which nobody even asked for and which totally goes against the foundations of Bitcoin (ie, it would ENCOURAGE DOUBLE SPENDS in a protocol whose main function is to PREVENT DOUBLE SPENDS)??


https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/3 ... al_on_the/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/3ujc4m/consensus_jgarzik_rbf_would_be_antisocial_on_the/)

[cdnmatt]

CouldnтАЩt move your existing money
Had wildly unpredictable fees that were high and rising fast


On these two points he's bitching about the block size. Yes, there's the POTENTIAL those two could happen, but not for the forseeable future, and the currently the network is humming along just fine. Those points are moot.


Allowed buyers to take back payments theyтАЩd made after walking out of shops, by simply pressing a button (if you arenтАЩt aware of this тАЬfeatureтАЭ thatтАЩs because Bitcoin was only just changed to allow it)

He's talking about RBF (reverse by fee), and that's not how it works. It's not like anyone can just reverse a transaction at any time of their choosing. He's fear mongering.


Is suffering large backlogs and flaky payments

No, there's no backlogs or "flaky payments" (wtf that means). There is various stop measures already in place within the protocol to ensure you can't spam the network, if that's what he means by "flaky payments".


which is controlled by China

This is somewhat true, but again, fear mongering. The majority of mining companies are Chinese though, simply due to the cheaper electricity and lease rates compared to Western countries.


and in which the companies and people building it were in open civil war?

Again, fear mongering.

[Tobi]

OK, remember, I'm relying on you and your promises that my bitcoins will be worth $1,500+ each by the middle of summer... or nothing. :)