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What part of "they have intense hatred for anyone with a different opinion, even the very people who developed bitcoin" didn't you understand? What kind of person lambasts another …

> they have intense hatred for anyone with a different opinion, even the very people who developed bitcoin. Hal Finney, the very first recipient of a Bitcoin transaction claimed, q…

Aaron Russo, award winning film producer, argues the opposite quite convincingly in an interview conducted with a former IRS Commissioner, here: https://youtu.be/O6ayb02bwp0?t=33m …

Consumers don't buy 2% more chicken at the grocery store just because "inflation is 2%". That's total nonsense with no basis in reality. And investors will still make traditional i…

> In a perfect game system you'd probably make labor income taxes less than capital gains on investment Indeed you would [1]. According to some legal scholars, wages earned from la…

Bitcoin and Ethereum investors who put a few thousands of their own money on the line years ago have seen it rocket up in value into a considerable fortune. Naturally, to the exten…

> With blockchains, only the user has write access to the database with their cryptographic identity. Users are in full control. That trait is far from being unique to blockchains.…

My point is running all the nodes in the cloud means that the users of those nodes don't own them . > the user's choice to use the application in the first place. Right, but if non…

Users don't control cloud software.

> Ethereum is a world computer. As in, it acts like a single public computer that can perform computations for anyone who is willing to pay for them, but instead of this computer b…

> and now think that without a leader it's doomed to design by committee and stalemate on key decisions As a regular in the cryptocurrency world, it's evident that no matter what y…

You'll have to excuse me for this, but what you've just written has been said so many times in the past 18 months it's basically a cliche. If you're willing to put the entire syste…

Ironically, the only people who have made money on smart contracts - cough Ethereum - did it by convincing other investors to part with their money subsequent to selling those inve…

> If there's enough customer adoption where there's a need to handle that kind of volume you can rest assured there will be infrastructure to support it and instead of a loose grou…

Global electronic cash is a zero sum game. Money is pure network effect and only one unit of account can have 90% global market share at a time. I want that to be BTC. You want tha…

But you can port any and all features to sidechains or Enigma [1], and in doing so make them accessible to a much bigger market, denominated in BTC which is a more stable and prove…

Gavin is no longer lead developer and hasn't been for years now.

> I generally agree with this sentiment--the biggest value blockchains provide to decentralized applications is an inimitable 100%-replicated log You're coming at this backwards. O…

The throughput capacity of Bitcoin, being programmable money, isn't a user limit. We can just as soon put billions of users with BTC-denominated accounts at higher layers of abstra…

> The end goal is to prevent only having large institutions running nodes and to keep the system more decentralized, hence the need for better scaling options. (Bitcoin has become …

What block size for Ethereum's blockchain would be required to hit 56,000 tps? I'm really getting some deja vu in having to write this out for the millionth time in a 18 month peri…

But Ethereum's raison d'etre is "X for the blockchain". VISA does 56,000 tps. So it's really simple. How are you going to hit 56,000 tps on the blockchain. The Bitcoin community, w…

Gosh, you almost had me for a second there. But no, I'm afraid you'll have to do a bit more than merely allude to (non-)solutions, or point out how paper gains are enough motivatio…

The performance test data shows 32MB blocks are the absolute maximum block size that can be handled on desktop PCs today [1]: > After simulating the creation of blocks up to 32 MB …