So when did we all decide to stop trading alts as a way to accumulate more bitcoin

So when did we all decide to stop trading alts as a way to accumulate more bitcoin

.... I don't even know. Good question user

The moment when it became clear that Bitcoin is old tech. XRB, here we go.

we didn't, the dinosaurs/late-adopters/twitter crowd just isn't aware that what they're investing in is worthless long term, theyre probably hoping to put money in xrp/xrb/trx and then pull it out back to fiat in a month or few and get rich.

in reality it's the bitcoin holders who bought up shitcoins for absolutely nothing before most of the dumb money even got here, and before they even get a chance to think about taking profits, we'll be selling those shtcoins back into bitcoin or ethereum.

Basically this. More and more people will have a wakeup moment when they realize bitcoin is just one of many options. And it's a horrible one at that.

We haven't. Only newfags do that.

XRB has been sideways for how long now, you stupid fuck

didnt really stop im just currently using ETH instead of BTC

Who stopped doing that?

People have been saying this since Litecoin, FYI.

>implying ranking matters
>TRX

you spelt ethereum wrong

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1 week fag, just 1 week

Spit on nonbelievers

>implying 1 week isn't a long time.
You dumb, filthy nigger. Go back to working at Quizno's.

When Blockstream jewed BTC by permanently crippling it's potential to handle large volumes of transactions.

nice just bought 100k

learn the difference between capacity and scalability, and for your own sanity dont listen to a bunch of chinks and take them seriously.

This. We're still just trying to accumulate more BTC OP, at least those of us who have been here a while.

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Yes I was mining litecoins back in the bitcoin-fork-coin mania period. The difference now is we're getting close to people being able to easily go to and from fiat and any crypto. Once bitcoin is no longer the primary gateway, the market will value it on its merits alone.

what keeps you from making a lightning node yourself? It's all free software. It kinda even makes bitcoin partially PoS for extra dividends

To be a real mega hub you need fucktons of money to open a lot of channels with high capacity

wrong. No other crypto has a decade long track record

This. Very much this. BTC will have to stand on it's own.

Veeky Forums missed BTC's plan to cripple itself first to force people to move to a proprietary 2nd layer solution, Liquid, which is currently in beta stage. How did BTC users fail to see what's happening is beyond me, even if they accept there's no need in 0-conf, and 1MB are fine, the writing is on the wall the LN will REQUIRE Liquid to be used, it just won't be feasible in any other way, at least not in the next few years. They were cheated out of their coins which they can't move now - they're literally stuck on addresses with lower amounts than the fee to move them. Even if you ignore all of the LN's difficulties and problems it has right now, even when it'll be deployed, it won't change anything, people still have to do onchain tx's to TRADE their coins, and eventually all retail users will rely on Liquid which will work with exchanges to provide the liquidity required for locking coins, otherwise it will have almost no usecase for 99% of users. You've been Jewed.

"Liquid"?

Explain? Link?

It's only known from leaked emails, but it doesn't matter there's no official source about it, since it was obvious all along it's the only feasible way it could work technically - there's no point in setting a channel to make a single payment, that's where people's payment will be done, on the end points on exchanges etc..

Could you reexplain in laymens? I'm not sure what you mean.