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For the same reason we do not make bigger cars when we want to go to space.

You managed to cram so much wrong into a post it's unbelievable. Let's start with your 'off by one' address scare tactic. Bitcoin addresses contain a built-in check code, so it's g…

What are your dollars but numbers being added and subtracted in a database? Things have value because people assign them value. There isn't some magical property that makes the tru…

Guess what has to happen to maintain or increase value transfer when you have reached a limit on blocksize. Ding ding ding! You guessed it! The price must rise. The utility has not…

Nah, there are still just 21 million bitcoin. Nice try though.

I'm so tired of this uninformed critique. How do you propose we increase throughput on a competitive space without compromising the byzantine fault tolerance of the bitcoin network…

The amount of tether doesn't even come close to accounting for the upward price movement.

If you believe USD will maintain its value (which historically it hasn't) and that banks will not steal your money (which historically they have), then why even use Bitcoin. You're…

You can easily be confirmed within approximately 10 minutes (the fastest possible time) for about $4 USD. The volume of Bitcoin (on chain) and competition to enter a block is healt…

What? It's a buyer seller market. By your terrible logic markets are pyramid schemes. This is upvoted?

The utility has gone down? Bitcoin utility hasn't gone down it has had many additional features built into it but the utility has not changed. The fact that this is upvoted so high…

Your understanding is incorrect.

Kind of sick of hearing government officials saying encryption is evil. This stance is disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst.

You trust violence more than mathematical improbability? Okay.

You're thinking small. Imagine a world where there aren't parasitic entities littered throughout a process. Imagine a world where I do not need to trust any third parties in order …

> Here's an example of a really bad use of "sizeof" that doesn't have the parenthesis around the argument: sizeof(*p)->member. Quite frankly, if you do this, you should be shot. Go…

Johnson also pushed back on the tech industry’s demand for greater encryption, saying that it hinders the government’s ability to detect criminal activity. The trend toward deeper …

Hijacking the left and right arrow keys turns filling out forms into a frustrating experience.

The anonymity aspects of bitcoin could result in more fraudsters getting away with fraud. Ignorance creates comments like this. Bitcoin transactions are not reversible, you have ze…

Wrong. Buy/sell spread is zero, research before you speak.