I don't even know wtf this "network effect" you're talking about is. Which is why I asked you to define it. Bitcoin blockstream developers haven't done a patch that screwed over 85% of their miners like XMR, that's true. But that's doesn't mean they ...

BTW I've been looking over your post history and you keep name dropping this no-name "syscoin" along with bitcoin. I get the feeling you're a syscoin developer and that's why you keep pumping it so excessively.

Doesn't posts like this prove that common user interest in bitcoin is nothing more than interest in a get-rich-quick-scheme? Not that I disagree bitcoin is a very good speculative investment back in 2010 mind you, but that's only with 20/20 ...

Forks happen when random users and miners disagree with main developers and become developers themselves, because that's where the power is. Explain what you would define as a "network effect", and how would that stop developers from changing what ...

The 51% figure is Satoshi's fallacy. He thought the only way to take over bitcoin would be to spend billions and billions of dollars to amass enough hardware to take over 51% of the hashrate. However reality is all you have to do is spend a few ...

Except for the fact that developers can arbitrarily decide what is a bad block or not. In which case miners are at their complete mercy. I don't know why you keep throwing in "users" into the mix. They're irrelevant in terms of control. That's like ...

Developers don’t have control? So you're saying all the code changes in bitcoin and other cryptos just magically appear out of thin air? Lol. That's a good one. With bitcoin, miner voting counts for jack because it doesn't do anything until ...

Saw this coming miles away. What's the point of making a deal with deal breaker Trump anyway? You know he's just gonna rip it up 2 minutes after. Following treaties is not in their blood. See Indians, Gaddafi, countless others. To deal with people ...

Err no you didn't. Read what you wrote and I wrote in response. You spin off on some tangant about Nash, wrote some superfluous nonsequitur about adoptation. But really matters is CONTROL. Having so much control in bunch of programmers defeats the ...

That's like saying there's no issue because I said so, it's decentralized because I said so. It's not an argument.

What did I miss? Is my point that cryptos are nothing more than programs wrong? I'm only interested in discussing facts. I liked the idea of decentralised crypto currencies in the beginning but reality has shown this is not the case. Merchants don't ...

Arguments about whether ethereum decisions are good or bad, or what constitutes as "ideal money" is rather besides the point. My point is that, in the end, cryptos are nothing more than a program and the programmers in charge can change it if they ...

Doesn't the fact that the developers can change it if they want precisely prove my point? Last year I read bitmain actually developed an ethereum asic but the ethereum developers swiftly changed their code to lock it out.

The code has changed many times without miners agreeing and failing to implement the changes the miners have agreed to. The github developers always has the final say. This is the fact and why so many controversies in the last few years. The only ...

That's hardly proof of anything. Venezuelan bolivars is down due to US currency attacks, seizure of their Citgo profits, and the US-CIA-Columbian black market smuggling operation that simultaneously illegally smuggles out the subsidised food and ...

Usdcad is terrible to news trade when NFP and CAD unemployment occurs at the same time. Its guaranteed to whipsaw with large deviations. Most news traders isolate the events by using usdjpy for NFP and something like eurcad for CAD unemployment. ...

The scandal is fake. It's an excuse to steal people's money. Favourite US tactic.

Exactly. It's the same as how the Germany and France rammed through article 13 despite opposition from Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg, Malta and Slovakia. I used to think the EU would be a benign entity. But the EU has ...

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Considering how these companies are famous for avoiding paying any tax I'd say it's a good start.