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Re: ZebraPay to Support VEROS and Ether

Avatar X — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:40:46 -0000

Post this in TGPBC and TFBBG

Re: Spanish Bitcoin Giant Bitnovo Offers Free Virtual Debit Cards

Avatar X — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:47:12 -0000

"A twitter response from Bitcoin Discussion Sites admin Avatar X to Peter Todd" is what the post should read. But it is OK. At least you included my actual tweet. ;)

Re: Vays vs Ver: Two Very Different Bitcoin Visions Clash at Anarchapulco

Avatar X — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:40:20 -0000

Thought I had replied to this. But basically we are disagreeing on details and differ in some perceptions. That's fine. Now it is just yet another waiting game and see what happens in the end.

Re: Vays vs Ver: Two Very Different Bitcoin Visions Clash at Anarchapulco

Avatar X — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 22:52:17 -0000

I am not saying that it would be easy to fully pack blocks everytime unless you did something reactive like bitfury did. But choosing to not pack them as well as possible is a choice done for profit smoothing. Given doing the right thing does increase variance and can lead to 5% less profitable blocks too. Which is why, it could only really work given current incentives if something was agreed as a standard. Or at the very least doing what bitfury does only under certain condition. It is indeed a complicated subject. Never implied it would be an easy thing to solve.

Re: Vays vs Ver: Two Very Different Bitcoin Visions Clash at Anarchapulco

Avatar X — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:00:49 -0000

I know how it sounds. But I think it would had been worth a try for mining pools to agree on a standard given the current situation. Even if it would be a temporary one. Although I would still argue that the deciding what would be minimum of transaction is OK is better and not an outrageous ask than at this stage still seeing blocks with less than 100 transactions and even 1 single transaction blocks. Trust me that it is something I would had not considered suggesting just 1 year ago. I get your point though. Duly noted.

Re: Vays vs Ver: Two Very Different Bitcoin Visions Clash at Anarchapulco

Avatar X — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:21:32 -0000

Point one addressed his argument of he being wary of people that came later. Alluding to those that were first somehow having more a moral right on Bitcoin Direction. I say that is a pointless argument. But if you were to follow it literally, then his opinion would matter less than the opinion of Theymos or mine. Roger later on expanded that point by adding a qualifier of not only being early or of the first but also having more skin in the game. Even if that don't makes it a valid argument at all.

Point two was about the ridiculous fact that there are still pools mining blocks with a single transaction. While it would be hard to pack 3K tx per block. I can still argue that any mining pool mining blocks with less than 1K transactions is behaving poorly in the network. There should an agreed standard minimum amount of transactions put into blocks by all mining pools so this don't happens. I also argue that if this was the case, most of the delays in transactions experienced while some bad actors spam the network would not happen. In no moment I am saying that people should do less complex transactions or smaller transactions.

Hope this clarifies things. Thanks for your reply.

Re: Vays vs Ver: Two Very Different Bitcoin Visions Clash at Anarchapulco

Avatar X — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 20:53:11 -0000

Thanks.

Re: Vays vs Ver: Two Very Different Bitcoin Visions Clash at Anarchapulco

Avatar X — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:04:57 -0000

Ok, Normally I would keep my opinions to myself just like I have done for over a year now. But in this case I will present some arguments since I did watched this "debate" and I got annoyed by it:

1.- The argument about being first giving you more of a moral right over Bitcoin direction is a weird one from Ver. He does realizes that based on that argument alone both Theymos and Myself opinions would then beat his opinion right? Theymos was into bitcoin by mid 2009. I first read about Bitcoin late 2009 and got into it during 2010. It is weird argument to make because that don't really matters at all.

2.- antpool and f2pool continue to mine blocks with a single transaction several times a week. This recent spam attack was cleared thanks to Bitfury actions. Bitfury can now pack 3K+ transactions in a block. If all pools started properly mining fully packed up blocks like Bitfury does. Then there would no delay problems 99% of the time even with how things are right now. It would also decrease the fees. But, I don't see anyone commenting and condemning such hazardous behavior enough either. Or the fact that even if you raised the blocksize to 2mb, such behaviour would still be a big problem.

3.- While Theymos has gone further than just moderating, it is still not censorship. In this is case it would be Curation. I know very well the difference since I manage The Google+ Bitcoin Community and The Facebook Bitcoin Group. Of which Roger Ver is a member of too. But even then what matters is the context. Reddit is Subject-based venue centric. User profiles are just a matter of archive, not a prime imperative interactive stream. That's the kicker. There cannot be such thing as Censorship on /r/Bitcoin or BitcoinTalk. There is curation, but that is the admin prerogative and right over its members. It would only be censorship if it was like Twitter or Facebook that are profile stream centric. Removing posts would then indeed be censorship, intrusion and subversion. This is not /r/bitcoin or BitcoinTalk case. Roger&Co just don't want to recognize there is an immense contextual, format and setup derived difference.

4.- The bitcoin community didn't just turned their back on Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen. It was not sudden and it had a lot of reasons.

5.- Roger likes to say how Satoshi left Core maintaining to Gavin so everyone should heed Gavin advice. Well, Gavin gave up his position to Wladimir. Same point would apply then.

Re: Coinbase and Reddit CEOs Discuss Removal of Theymos as Moderator of Bitcoin Subreddit

Avatar X — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:58:34 -0000

Most people really don't seem to get it or want to get it. But most of them don't run active communities, so am not surprised. I actually do agree with the notion that things would probably be worse if for some reason Theymos had decided to step down from /r/Bitcoin and just focus on BitcoinTalk back in February.

Re: Coinbase and Reddit CEOs Discuss Removal of Theymos as Moderator of Bitcoin Subreddit

Avatar X — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:52:17 -0000

If we are going with that, then Reddit would never remove him even if he was violating the rules as /r/Bitcoin actually produces a lot money for Reddit via Reddit Gold and promotionals. Upsetting anything about the current state of things would then not be in Reddit interest.

Re: Coinbase and Reddit CEOs Discuss Removal of Theymos as Moderator of Bitcoin Subreddit

Avatar X — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:57:00 -0000

But is not violating Reddit current rules in any way whatsoever. That is part of my point.

Re: Coinbase and Reddit CEOs Discuss Removal of Theymos as Moderator of Bitcoin Subreddit

Avatar X — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:01:26 -0000

Anyone calling for Theymos removal is not thinking things through. Asking for his rights and personal access to his own subreddit be violated in a way that only sets a dangerous precedent and being OK with that is dumb.

Re: Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin Addresses 'Classic' Blockchain

Avatar X — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:24:16 -0000

Not in the case of Ethereum.

Re: Popular TV Shows are Now Mainstreaming Cryptocurrency

Avatar X — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:45:34 -0000

Best inclusion has been in Almost Human. Where bitcoin was fully mainstream as a secondary currency. And its use was implied as common. Still said it got cancelled. It was really good. I think Mr. Robot will probably be the second best inclusion of Bitcoin. Or maybe it will end up being the best one. Specially since it also put Bitcoin in competition with E-Coin which is of course filtered through as EvilCoin.

Re: Venezuelan government launches anti-Bitcoin campaign

Avatar X — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 01:44:42 -0000

Re: Check Out These Cryptocurrency Clubs And Bitcoin Groups!

Avatar X — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:19:54 -0000

I was cowardly pushed out of The Bitcoin Subverse by the guy now running it after I started to be vocal in support Bitcoin Core over Bitcoin Classic. He also pushed out BashCO who brought me in. Please edit this post. It no longer represents me truthfully.

Re: Blockchain.info Unveils its New HD Wallet

Avatar X — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 07:40:55 -0000

Copay Wallet works on W10M. Blockchain.info site does indeed work well on W10M. Hopefully BCI releases a WUA this year. That would be great.

Re: Is Bitcoin Dead (Again)? | Foundation for Economic Education

Avatar X — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:50:10 -0000

Greatly written Sam.

Re: Thought Bitcoin Was Dead? 2016 Is the Year It Goes Big

Avatar X — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:51:06 -0000

Coinbase IS NOT the Top Exchange in the world. And it is also not the Top Bitcoin Wallet Provider either. You may want to correct that Cade. It is the fourth or fifth depending the day volume. They are the second biggest Bitcoin wallet provider.

Re: Microsoft pulled the Windows 10 November Update due to privacy concerns

Avatar X — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 02:46:44 -0000

IT IS NetSpeedMonitor. You just need to install it with compatibility set for Windows 7. Proof I personally have it:

Re: Check Out These Cryptocurrency Clubs And Bitcoin Groups!

Avatar X — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:20:46 -0000

And hey, everyone is welcome to post and comment over TGPBC, TFBBG and /v/Bitcoin. This of course includes The Bitcoinist.net admins themselves.

Re: Forget about running Android apps on Windows 10 Mobile

Avatar X — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 13:43:21 -0000

It worked. There were already a 100 pirated apps that worked with it. The problem was that Android based apps used more of everything. If you had several of them, they slowed down W10M and you ended up needing to turn off and restart your phone daily several times.

In practice it would had sucked and Microsoft would have got the blame. Microsoft is trying to figure it out. But if they can't, it is probable they will make Astoria more like Islandwood.

Re: The Pixel C Is Official, Available 'In The Coming Months' Starting At $499

Avatar X — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:11:14 -0000

Riiight. Windows 10 Tablets with just 1gb or 2gb of ram still manage to work better than an Android Tablet with 1gb or 2gb of ram.

Re: Pixel C, ¿Otra tablet competidora de la Surface Pro 3?

Avatar X — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:27:46 -0000

No compite con la Surface Pro 3 para nada. Compite con la Surface 3. Y la S3 gana. Surface 3 con Atom x7, 128gb y 4gb de ram? Los mismos $599 USD que google quiere por la Pixel C con solo 64gb y 3gb de ram. Agregas $179 y obtienes el type cover con teclas iluminadas y una Surface Pen. Y si quieres correr Android en la Surface 3 puedes hacerlo con Bluestacks.

Re: The Pixel C Is Official, Available 'In The Coming Months' Starting At $499

Avatar X — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:20:48 -0000

Surface 3 with 128gb & 4gb of ram? $599 USD. Add $179 and you get the type cover and a surface pen.