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Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

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Re: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

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> There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever, you can't print more Untrue. More could easily be printed if that is what the leadership/community wanted.

That would result in a fork, split adoption, and is not nearly as easy as you imply.

There have been multiple forks.

Re: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

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post #36

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> There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever, you can't print more Untrue. More could easily be printed if that is what the leadership/community wanted.

Let's take a vote! Who votes to increase the 21M cap, devaluing your own holdings? Sir, it appears the nays have it..

It only takes one veto (bug) to nullify the entire network, CVE-2018-17144 for example.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...

Re: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

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If it is pegged to USD, there is no investment potential. It is just as bad as cash. The idea behind bitcoin is that you don't need to rely on the US government for storing value. There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever, you can't print more. That article did not address this at all. This is the most compelling reason to buy bitcoin.

> There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever, you can't print more Untrue. More could easily be printed if that is what the leadership/community wanted.

That is no longer Bitcoin, just a forked alt coin. See how well they did in the past. Unless there's some serious flaws preventing further adoption, why bend the rule everyone has been agreeing on?

Re: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

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If it is pegged to USD, there is no investment potential. It is just as bad as cash. The idea behind bitcoin is that you don't need to rely on the US government for storing value. There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever, you can't print more. That article did not address this at all. This is the most compelling reason to buy bitcoin.

> There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever, you can't print more.

I see you're unfamiliar with Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin 2, Bitcoin Segwit...

Re: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

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I really wish they succeed. It takes 3 to 5 business days to transfer money using ACH in the US if you don't want to shell out 25$ for wire transfer. Transferring money is just about transferring a few bytes of data. Why does it take 3 business days? Why are customers still forced to shell out 25$ for instant transfers?

Re: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

#46

If it is pegged to USD, there is no investment potential. It is just as bad as cash. The idea behind bitcoin is that you don't need to rely on the US government for storing value. There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever, you can't print more. That article did not address this at all. This is the most compelling reason to buy bitcoin.

> There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever, you can't print more Untrue. More could easily be printed if that is what the leadership/community wanted.

Go back and read the whitepaper that's not how this works.

Re: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

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The reason for Bitcoin’s design is precisely because a centralized/pegged alternative was tried and failed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash Facebook’s currency is not a successor of Bitcoin, it’s an inferior reincarnation of a failed predecessor.

How is it inferior to Ecash? FB's coin is not meant to provide anonymity features like Ecash did, but that's just a design choice. Other than that, Ecash is often suspected to have died due to the lack of reach and partnerships, which is not something FB lacks.

So far, FB's coin looks very interesting.

>Facebook’s currency is not a successor of Bitcoin

Yeah the title is just low-quality clickbait; it's got nothing to do with Bitcoin.

Re: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

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But what is “BTC”? It’s the version of bitcoin code that people generally accept. Every update to the code is a fork.

That's correct, so anything that isn't generally accepted doesn't have the same support or value. To date there have not been any legitimate forks that I'm aware of.

Whether you consider it legitimate or not, Bitcoin Cash has about 4% of the value of BTC.

Here’s my point. Is it theoretically possible for some group of people in the physical world to take actions so that what we generally call Bitcoin has 1 more coin? I strongly believe yes. So the world isn’t as black and white as some people like to say it is.

Re: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

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But what is “BTC”? It’s the version of bitcoin code that people generally accept. Every update to the code is a fork.

That's correct, so anything that isn't generally accepted doesn't have the same support or value. To date there have not been any legitimate forks that I'm aware of.

Who decides what's a legitimate fork? There have already been several forks, some of which maintain trading value.

Re: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

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If it is pegged to USD, there is no investment potential. It is just as bad as cash. The idea behind bitcoin is that you don't need to rely on the US government for storing value. There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever, you can't print more. That article did not address this at all. This is the most compelling reason to buy bitcoin.

You're only looking into quick money but for you there are plenty of alts for that.
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