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nighthawk24

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About nighthawk24

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    Comment #30827908

    "You can't have decentralization, censorship resistance, self sovereignty, ownership of your own stuff without privacy." - Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, Founder of Zcash. If anyone wants t…

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    Comment #24957634

    BTC limitation of SegWit/LN stole the Bitcoin brand name and the decade long Plan-B narrative from BCH's block upgrade, Schnorr signature, 0-conf(without Replace-By-Fee). Bitcoin C…

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    Comment #24676519

    Check out the Zcash team building private internet money based on zk-SKNARKs https://z.cash/the-basics/

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    Comment #21987868

    Gavin being silenced is just a tip of the iceberg out of the continual banning and censorship of people discussing ideas around scaling Bitcoin Core chain since 2016. Most of the f…

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    Comment #21985895

    > wtf. man, stop taking credit for other people's work. Compact blocks were completed and released by Matt Corallo, myself, and the other Bitcoin developers at the time. It had abs…

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    Comment #21985477

    > was happily using Bitcoin long before creating a company to support it. His public comments would say otherwise and many doubt that his company is supporting Bitcoin vs handicapp…

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    Comment #21984597

    Sorry, the real attack was by the group led by Adam Back who himself dismissed Bitcoin initially before having a VC fund him to cater to his plan http://cashbleed.com/ Following wh…

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    Comment #21983237

    "Small blocks with lightning to scale won" Nope, LN is not P2P Electronic Cash. Bitcoin Core protocol kept the Bitcoin branding and continues censorship. Bitcoin Cash protocol is b…

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    Comment #21982213

    Absolutely, there is no good reason for private entities who take over an open source project and limit it for private interests when a major chunk of people reject it.

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    Comment #21980811

    BCH forked off to reject the SegWit+RBF add-on that ain't Bitcoin. Replace by Fee has caused ATM hacks and breaks trust in 0-conf. BCH upgraded version holds consensus among its us…

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    Comment #21980752

    Bitcoin Cash chain has done increasing the blocksize rightfully.

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    Comment #21980578

    Bitcoin already scaled on the Bitcoin Cash chain all whilst Bitcoin Core dev payroll was taken over by Blockstream co and Chaincode Labs co who's vested interest lies in limiting t…

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    Comment #21775638

    wow, the first line in BASIC I wrote was in 1995. (millennial here)

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    Comment #21753692

    Don't trust closed source software for encryption.

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    Comment #21664437

    You might want to learn about the country specific caps and how bills like S.386 were passed in congress buy blocked by Sen. Durbin to keep the "casual racism" going. This is also …

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    Comment #21482316

    0-conf transactions have timestamps and the receiving wallet/node checks for the tree of transactions to even allow the spending of unconfirmed transactions up to a limit of 25 for…

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    Comment #21474291

    There are 2 approaches to Bitcoin Network usage in play. Bitcoin Core team went with RBF(Replace-By-Fee) which gives rise to the double spending problem as the funds can be re-dire…

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    Comment #21462859

    https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/dry028/hows_an_bch_0_c...

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    Comment #21453230

    Bitcoin Cash adoption is growing around the world for restaurants https://map.bitcoin.com/

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    Comment #21397295

    It's a tether scheme? The scheme to create a token that is supposedly worth $1 to buy BTC and other coins off exchanges and then selling those coins for real USD. For anyone intere…

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    Comment #21085604

    I'd prefer to use Tesla's software before any Google/Apple integrations any day. Simplistic UI, no botching of privacy/restrictions within eco-systems among other reasons to only s…

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    Comment #21075791

    2020 Every Company Is Becoming Software 2030 Every Company Is Becoming Smart Contract

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