The Blockstream corporation is the sole entity that wanted Segwit on BTC so they could charge fees for off-chain transactions. They want to keep the block size small so BTC transactions will cost too much in fees, therefore more transactions will happen off-chain and the Blockstream corporation will make more money.
Evil does exists, and it is the Bitcoin "Core". Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin and is closer to the intent of what Bitcoin is supposed to be with larger blocks.
Not long after Blockstream came on the scene the issue of bitcoin's scalability once again came to forefront of the community. This issue came within the community a number of times since bitcoins inception. Bitcoin, as dictated in the code, cannot handle any more than around 3 transactions per second at the moment. To put that in perspective Paypal handles around 15 transactions per second on average and VISA handles something like 2000 transactions per second. The discussion in the community has been around how best to allow bitcoin to scale to allow a higher number of transactions in a given amount of time.
A certain group of bitcoin developers decided that increasing the limit by this amount was too much and that it was dangerous. They said that the increased use of resources that the network would use would create centralisation pressures which could destroy the network. The theory was that a miner of the network with more resources could publish many more transactions than a competing small miner could handle and therefore the network would tend towards few large miners rather than many small miners. The group of developers who supported this theory were all developers who worked for the company Blockstream.
To give you an idea of Blockstream; It has hired most of the main and active bitcoin developers and is now synonymous with the "Core" bitcoin development team. They AFAIK no products at all. They have received around $75m in funding. Every single thing they do is supported by /u/theymos. They have started implementing an entirely new economic system for bitcoin against the will of it's users and have blocked any and all attempts to scaling the network in line with the original vision.
Landon James
r/bitcoin, the main sub for the bitcoin community is held and run by a person who goes by the pseudonym u/theymos. Theymos not only controls r/bitcoin, but also bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.com. These are top three communication channels for the bitcoin community, all controlled by just one person. Blockstream corporation started in mid 2015 with millions in investments and hired Theymos and most of the other "core" developers.
A free open source software was released to solve the scaling issue. After this free and open source software was released, Theymos, the person who controls all the main communication channels for the bitcoin community implemented a new moderation policy that disallowed any discussion of this new software. Specifically, if people were to discuss this software, their comments would be deleted and ultimately they would be banned temporarily or permanently. This caused chaos within the community as there was very clear support for this software at the time and it seemed our best hope for finally solving the problem and moving on. Instead a censorship campaign was started. At first it 'all' they were doing was banning and removing discussions but after a while it turned into actively manipulating the discussion. For example, if a thread was created where there was positive sentiment for increasing the transaction capacity or being negative about the moderation policies or negative about the actions of certain bitcoin developers, the mods of r/bitcoin would selectively change the sorting order of threads to 'controversial' so that the most support opinions would be sorted to the bottom of the thread and the most vitriolic would be sorted to the top of the thread.
Kayden Barnes
This was initially very transparent as it was possible to see that the most downvoted comments were at the top and some of the most upvoted were at the bottom. So they then implemented hiding the voting scores next to the users name. This made impossible to work out the sentiment of the community and when combined with selectively setting the sorting order to controversial it was possible control what information users were seeing. Also, due to the very very large number of removed comments and users it was becoming obvious the scale of censorship going on. To hide this they implemented code in their CSS for the sub that completely hid comments that they had removed so that the censorship itself was hidden. Anyone in support of scaling bitcoin were removed from the main communication channels. Theymos even proudly announced that he didn't care if he had to remove 90% of the users. He also later acknowledged that he knew he had the ability to block support of this software using the control he had over the communication channels.
While this was all going on, Blockstream and it's employees started lobbying the community by paying for conferences about scaling bitcoin, but with the very very strange rule that no decisions could be made and no complete solutions could be proposed. These conferences were likely strategically (and successfully) created to stunt support for the scaling software Gavin and Mike had released by forcing the community to take a "lets wait and see what comes from the conferences" kind of approach. Since no final solutions were allowed at these conferences, they only served to hinder and splinter the communities efforts to find a solution. As the software Gavin and Mike released called BitcoinXT gained support it started to be attacked. Users of the software were attack by DDOS.
Nathan Wood
Employees of Blockstream were recommending attacks against the software, such as faking support for it, to only then drop support at the last moment to put the network in disarray. Blockstream employees were also publicly talking about suing Gavin and Mike from various different angles simply for releasing this open source software that no one was forced to run. In the end Mike Hearn decided to leave due to the way many members of the bitcoin community had treated him. This was due to the massive disinformation campaign against him on r/bitcoin. One of the many tactics that are used against anyone who does not support Blockstream and the bitcoin developers who work for them is that you will be targeted in a smear campaign. This has happened to a number of individuals and companies who showed support for scaling bitcoin. Theymos has threatened companies that he will ban any discussion of them on the communication channels he controls (i.e. all the main ones) for simply running software that he disagrees with (i.e. any software that scales bitcoin).
William Wilson
As time passed, more and more proposals were offered, all against the backdrop of ever increasing censorship in the main bitcoin communication channels. It finally come down the smallest and most conservative solution. This solution was much smaller than even the employees of Blockstream had proposed months earlier. As usual there was enormous attacks from all sides and the most vocal opponents were the employees of Blockstream. These attacks still are ongoing today. As this software started to gain support, Blockstream organised more meetings, especially with the biggest bitcoin miners and made a pact with them. They promised that they would release code that would offer an on-chain scaling solution hardfork within about 4 months, but if the miners wanted this they would have to commit to running their software and only their software. The miners agreed and the ended up not running the most conservative proposal possible. This was in February last year. There is no hardfork proposal in sight from the people who agreed to this pact and bitcoin is still stuck with the exact same transaction limit it has had since the limit was put in place about 6 years ago. Gavin has also been publicly smeared by the developers at Blockstream and a plot was made against him to have him removed from the development team. Gavin has now been, for all intents an purposes, expelled from bitcoin development. This has meant that all control of bitcoin development is in the hands of the developers working at Blockstream.
>tl;dr: The coin with the name "Bitcoin" is currently the bullshit Blockstream corporation's scam to make money back to its investors. You're buying a literal centralized coin to make companies richer and completely going against what Bitcoin was made for.
tl;dr The coin with the name "Bitcoin" is currently the bullshit Blockstream corporation's scam to make money back to its investors. You're buying a literal centralized coin to make companies richer and completely going against what Bitcoin was made for.
Zachary Sanders
Cringe Why can't you shills shitpost and have fun? This isn't reddit. You won't appear right to us just because you wrote this hideous rant, all the opposite really.
Justin Morales
bcash cuck haha
Isaiah Lopez
This information needs to be seen by everyone in crypto. The disinformation against Jihan, roger, and other guys who actually want the best for bitcoin has been immense. War is being waged between old money (blockstream) and the guys who got rich by backing crypto from the start.
Nathaniel Adams
Core supporter shills are so obvious
Thomas Fisher
nobody cares about your reddit autism wars, get it through your skull already
Brody Rivera
I support non-(((banking))) version aka BCC.
Regardless of who you support im sure both chains will go up in value over time.
Andrew Lee
Face it, man. Core killed bitcoin. China isn't saving it with BCH. Look into alts for the future and use bitcoin as a cautionary tale. Now that the market is beginning to decouple from every move btc makes due to a variety of fiat markets, it's the perfect time.
Also, run far away from any project luke-jr decides to devote his time to.
Adrian Johnson
Calling out OP.
Can you provide solid evidence for your claims? Link to the open-source project, links to which developers worked for blockstream etcetera. Evidence of the reddit corruption.
Parker Bell
Can't you understand that no goverment would allow bitcoin to become a decentralized currency threatening fiat? Core knows that and think of the future of bitcoin. The future of bitcoin is not to replace actual currency, it's to create a digital gold.
Adrian Jones
This post really activated my almonds.
Josiah Johnson
Good reading, I'm 100% in BCC. The best thing about this is no matter what happens BCC keeps chugging along doing it's thing.
Obviously I expect it to be attacked but it will continue to grow as it is the genuine Bitcoin, when people realise they can't afford to transact they'll start migrating over to us anyway.
James Taylor
It's not over. It's never over.
I'll go to my grave knowing I backed the right chain.
The sources are in the faggy reddit post
That's not the purpose of bitcoin.
Exactly. It will take time, but with more information spreading I think people will finally realize BCC is the real Bitcoin and the one they should be supporting besides Blockstream Coin (tm)
Isaiah Young
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Gabriel Rodriguez
You core supporters are so obvious. Keep silencing the community you fucking faggot.
I already knew all this but thanks for posting it OP. This is why I'm a 100% ETH man now since early this year. Fuck BCC and triple fuck BTC, the only winning move is not choosing either of them. But I do hope china and BCC kills bitcoin.
Jaxon Walker
Nice random google link. You core fags are so stupid, it's amazing Blockstream even had you on payroll
Luis Jones
samefag
Bentley Rodriguez
How is trilema pro-Core you dumb cuck
Big blockers are really at the bottom of the Bitcoin IQ pyramid.
Anyway, replying to a paid shill/troll/Roger itself.
Tyler Martin
> random google link
you just outed yourself as an actual newfag
not knowing who MP is, is pretty much how you know 99% of this board is newfags.
Jacob Sanchez
Not really. Try harder
Blake Hernandez
Really trying to pump those BCH bags.
Evan Turner
To be fair, the flippening won't happen until after BTC main chain fills back up. If core blocks 2x, then we are looking at $10+ fees by the end of the year. If 2x comes through, maybe $10+ fees by February-March. Either way, BCH will be trading higher than BTC by next summer.
More money to be made elsewhere for now, but once the BTC chain starts clogging up again the most reliable gains in all of crypto will be hodling BCH.
Leo Wood
I agree with you man. In the first quake there was a limit of an INT number of brushes. Carmak left a comment to make it dynamic, but then it was good enough for Q1 and Q2 as well. Sometimes flipping an int to 8, is the simplest and elegant solution.
Jayden Collins
Where can I short BCC?
Angel Gutierrez
fucking lol at all the people who are going to fall for scam disinfo and sell their BTC
do you donkeys know how many times this has happened? You're literally being led around the nose by scam artists with their finely honed FUD.
Sell your BTC donkey, and regret it, like all the other times.
Carson Rogers
bitcoin has two value propositions:
(1) cheaper to transfer money than banks / credit cards / etc. (until core takeover is complete)
(2) serves the black market
#2 will be eliminated by something like monero/dash. #1 will be eliminated by core (but not on the BCH chain)
BTC is literally worthless once core gets their way and drives transaction costs through the roof (really, they already are way too high but all the lolnewmoney is more than compensating for now)
Brayden Walker
This isn't FUD you faggot. This is facts. Try to prove me wrong. You'll realize Blockstream is behind all this.
I'm not paid, no one in the real movement is paid. That's only you. Keep taking that Blockstream money from Digital Currency Group
Jace Martinez
>It is currently 54% more profitable to mine on the original chain. Who's the mysterious miner that's keeping difficulty up and what's his end game?
Nathan Scott
core is burning cash reserves trying to get past segwit lock in before BCH mooning, but their chain will collapse from lack of 2x regardless
David Cruz
It's some whale BTC miner. He is keeping some miners mining BCC to keep the difficulty up in order to keep BCC down.
It just proves BTC core is scared. They are scared of the truth being shown. Blockstream will keep BCC down until the people rise up and use bitcoin as intended
Adam Butler
So blockstream is deliberately crippling bitcoin and lining their pockets at the expense of the existing bitcoin infrastructure on our behalf then? Sure
Thomas Bell
they are trying to become the new visa/mastercard. not doing anyone any favors, just short term greed
Julian Green
Why ya think big banks and old money started getting into bitcoin mining this year?
Wyatt Watson
People aren't going to fall for your obvious fudding.
Core has all the quality people behind it. That fact that Nick Szabo and Andreas Antonopolous support it is enough for me.
BCC is supported by Roger Ver, an obnoxious non-expert, Jihan Wu, a proxy for the Chinese government, and Craig Wright, a lying scammer.
Why are all the quality people behind Core, and all the fucking scum behind BCC.
Really made ME think.
Theymos stopped the fud spamming, too bad he can't stop the spamming of the network also.
BCC will be crushed, the shills will evaporate, adn the naive morons who fell for the orchestrated outrage will crawl back to the main chain with their tails between their legs.
The benefit that Blockstream would get out of LN is far less than the benefit that Jihn is CURRENTLY getting out of ASICBOOST.
For anyone who is falling for this shit please check out this link:
WHY ARE THE QUALITY PEOPLE BEHIND CORE AND THE SCAMMERS AND MORONS BEHIND BCC?
Wyatt Ramirez
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Lincoln Gray
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Parker Murphy
roger how old are you why are you on Veeky Forums
Cooper Campbell
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Joshua Flores
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Chase Brown
You are worried about blockstream but completely cool with Bitmain (the ones spreading anti-core fud) controlling the entire mining ecosystem? Fuck off
Ryan Richardson
but i made a shit ton of money from it, so who gives a fuck
Robert Gutierrez
t. mathematically illiterate
BTC issues about $2B in block rewards per year. jihan has about 25% mining power, with about a 20% asicboost on that.
$2B * 0.25 * 0.2 = $100M
visa processes 3000 tx/sec, minimum fee $0.30
lets say bitcoin offers 90% lower fees, or $0.03, and scales to VISA size
$2.8B, 28x what jihan gets from asicboost
the numbers are not even comparable, not even the same order of magnitude.
fuck core. and remember, all core supporters failed 5th grade math (or might as well have)
Jacob Ortiz
>believing a self-important gypsy
I'm so disappointed he didn't dump his bitcoin cash, assuming he still has any bitcoins left.
It has happened exactly zero times before.
As you define 'quality' as 'approved by r/bitcoin' your argument is tautological.
Craig Wright is not connected to bitcoin cash.
Liam Miller
Blockstream is an evil corporation. Bitman is a Chinese dude. Are you FUCKING serious? There is no comparison.
Blockstreams lies will be exposed. That's the purpose of this thread. Keep trying to FUD, go back on r\bitcoin pls
Brandon Scott
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Same goes for every piece of shit scamcoin not named Bitcoin
Ryder Reyes
you are retarded or you're a chinese shill
good luck with your life and buy BCC
Evan Foster
Cry harder chink un mineable digital gold
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Brody Howard
A segwit coin is not the same thing as a satoshi whitepaper bitcoin.... which unfortunately only exists in bitcoin cash now.
Jason Gutierrez
you got that copy pasta from reddit, a guy that was obviously shilling for BCH. You should read the community response to what you've posted instead of just spewing your one sided bullshit
Nathan Richardson
You may be right but satoshi is unloading 1000 cash a day to keep the price down
Ok, keep dreaming. Look at ANS/NEO. Sure is crying now.
Open your eyes. I feel sorry for you.
Lol. Looks at the facts. Blockstream owns you.
Exactly. Bitcoin "Cash" is the only true coin now.
Mhm. And try to disprove anything. You will see in his sources it all checks out. Blockstream's Bitcoin is cancer.
I doubt it. Satoshi would back Bitcoin cash.
Yep, keep shilling for Blockstream corporation. The truth cannot be silenced.
Joseph Green
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Nathan Stewart
... There's a significant difference between a fork of a node implementation and a fork on the blockchain.
Luis Price
God the fud is amazing, how do you get involved? Do they pay per post or are you employed to FUD on particular forums?
Let me in I want to get paid too
Angel Cruz
it's crashing and burning
Cooper Butler
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Owen Long
>$5 billion cap >Relentless paid fudding >slight drop
OMG GET OUT NOW BCC DOOMED
>FUD brought to you by kikestream™
Liam Nelson
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Jack Howard
then why is bch crashing and burning?
Asher Bailey
Oh hey guys, check out dis BCH Lambo - tootally legit, 370% increase to 800 followed by 180 the next day is indignant of what BITCOIN HURR is supposed to be!
Face it, it was a flop to re create the maelstrom of the market back in April. The whales saw it, and dont want to flop around with it. Bampf
Jonathan Wilson
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Pricing it in USD was your mistake. You clearly aren't a digital currency expert, nor novice.
I hate these fags on Veeky Forums that constant price their shit coins as USD. That's not how we interpret it.
How much is Blockstream paying you? Let me know, I want to get in on the action ...
Lucas Lopez
Are you implying I should be converting all sums to segcoin first? No thanks.
Jacob Bailey
Pricing BCH on Bitcoin this close to the Fork is pretty unwise.. if everybody got them for free at the start - what value in BTC is it? Its a fiat market, nobody is switching their BTC to BCH mate.
Levi Rodriguez
You convert it to BCC (Used to be BTC before the fork) then evaluate the cost.
This principal made me very wealthy because I wasn't focused on "hurr durr, 1 BTC is my weekly wage". You cannot think of it like that
I know many people who sold BTC for BCH. A lot actually.
It's you faggot normies that populate this board who use Coinbase that don't fucking get it. You are the runination of Bitcoin.
Do you understand you are supporting a corporation when you use Bitcoin? You are literally doing the exact opposite of Bitcoin's intention.
Whatever. You fucking normie faggots ruined it. Like always, I wouldn't expect you to understand.
Luke Lee
> ruined it
you realize if there was any merit to your loud whinging, it would be completely irrelevant and would be categorically impossible to "ruin", falter or otherwise sabotage BCH.
if BCH is really so superior, it will prevail, regardless of whats, whys or how and therefores. And especially irrelevant of blockheaded "intentions"
nature does not give a shit about "intentions". Bitcoin prevailed because it is superior, simply and nothing more or less. If BCH is superior, it will prevail, without needing you to shill for it with this same thread 4 times a day.
That you feel you have to do this, speaks volumes.
Levi Ross
Bitcoin won because it was the first.
VHS won because it was the first. BetaMax was technologically better.
The iPod won even when there were better streaming devices that made playing MP3s easier. iPod won because they were the first.
Superiority absolutely does not win. It is perception. It always has been that.
You clearly know nothing about business nor the economy. Please continue to buy Blockstream Coin™ and contribute to the problem.
I do this because I am passionate. Like Andrew Jackson when he dissolved the immoral second national bank of the United States.
This "Bitcoin" is exactly that. The immoral creation of greed passed down by the "government" (Sheep tricked by Theymos and Blockstream corporation) of Bitcoin.
Please wake up. All of you.
No one has yet disputed any of my facts. It goes to show you that the Bitcoin Core team really is a bunch of censor-ridden cowards who work for Blockstream corporation.
Thank God Veeky Forums exists. They cannot do their faggot downvotes here and hide us. They cannot hide our views. Our freedom and rights shall not be infringed.
You cannot hide from the truth. The truth will prevail.
Ryder Mitchell
So why should I invest into a fork of a relic when I can invest into other better future coins again?
Jordan Thomas
Guys dont you know blockstream wants HIGH fees which is why they are so expensive now! FEES are way cheaper with BBC
also btc slow af bcc way fast scales better for normie adoption!!
Aiden Nguyen
Feeling very comfy in Monero. Always monitor threads like these to be prepared when xmr reaches this point.
Josiah Cox
this. IOTA is the new King. your days of shitting on streets are over. over. >over
Wyatt Lopez
Did you read the response to the obvious bias in the post? You make it seem like the big blockers' hands are clean
Austin Young
you hands aren't clean, street shitter. we all know what you don't use to wipe.