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Is Bitcoin breaking up?

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Re: Is Bitcoin breaking up?

#11

This headline is a great "grabber" for older bankers and financiers. It implies that the whole "bitcoin thing" is finally blowing over, without going out and saying it. Music to their ears.

I seriously doubt this is the case. Most bankers I know have regarded bitcoin with a keen curiosity rather than some kind of malignant threat.

Re: Is Bitcoin breaking up?

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post #10

This headline is a great "grabber" for older bankers and financiers. It implies that the whole "bitcoin thing" is finally blowing over, without going out and saying it. Music to their ears.

Bankers and financiers are nowhere near as worried about bitcoin as many bitcoiners seem to think.

Bankers and financiers has bigger things to worry about in 2016

Re: Is Bitcoin breaking up?

#15
> The problem is bitcoin is open-source software, so any change has to be approved a majority of the community, and it hasn’t been able to agree.

The author has conflated a couple of things. That is the exact opposite of how OSS works. The reason why the majority need to adopt is purely from a "one true coin" standpoint—there is nothing stopping forks or new alt coins from spinning out.

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#17
post #3

If you want to read the article without being blocked by WSJ's paywall just Google the name of the article and click on the link. More often times than not you can get to a WSJ article via GoogleNews even if it is pay-restricted.

If you click the link titled "web" under the title, it will do that for you.

Even with Javascript disabled and only session cookies?

Re: Is Bitcoin breaking up?

#18

This headline is a great "grabber" for older bankers and financiers. It implies that the whole "bitcoin thing" is finally blowing over, without going out and saying it. Music to their ears.

I seriously doubt this is the case. Most bankers I know have regarded bitcoin with a keen curiosity rather than some kind of malignant threat.

In which case I proffer that they don't understand the implication of the cryptocurrency endgame.

Re: Is Bitcoin breaking up?

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post #9

The Bitcoin community is rapidly coalescing around an effort to increase the maximum allowed blocksize to 2MB as soon as possible. This increase is being implemented in a new client, Bitcoin Classic [0], which is a fork of Bitcoin Core that changes only the single line of code that sets the blocksize limit. Bitcoin Classic was created by Jonathan Toomim, an American miner and developer who went to China to talk direc…

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Re: Is Bitcoin breaking up?

#20

If you want to read the article without being blocked by WSJ's paywall just Google the name of the article and click on the link. More often times than not you can get to a WSJ article via GoogleNews even if it is pay-restricted.

So they do reference checking...huh...that would mean Google News doesn't strip out the ref like their search engine does
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