Gavin Andresen @gavinandresen Twitter profile

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7 years

Bitcoin Cash is what I started working on in 2010: a store of value AND means of exchange.

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Hey @coinbase : why do you need three months of bank statements to keep my account open? #invasionofprivacy

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Scaling BTC in three easy steps: 1. Scale ethereum 2. Trustlessy tokenize your BTC 3. Transact using the wrapped tokens on the eth2 chain

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What if taxes were completely voluntary, but the amount you decided to pay was public? Would peer pressure and the desire not to look like a selfish jerk be enough to fund a government?

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7 years

I was wrong; stay away from Blockstream, Greg and Samson are toxic trolls.

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4 years

I found @CryptoKitties the most interesting cryptocurrency-related project of 2018. @PoolTogether_ the most interesting of 2019. I dunno what I will find interesting in 2020, but it will probably be built on Ethereum.

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I have no idea what this is, but they’re tagging me to try to leverage my reputation for their own gain. So they’re very likely some flavor of scam.

Zeta Markets | $Z is coming 🔥

@ZetaMarkets

1 year

3/ Trade the apex predator cryptoasset with up to 15x maintenance margin at ♾️ cc @saylor @adam3us @Excellion @pwuille @gavinandresen @theinstagibbs @achow101

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6 years

I bet the half-shredded Banksy sells for more than $5million

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6 years

I like to think the markets will eventually abandon tech-train-wreck coins (like iota). I also like to think ice cream is good for me.

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5 years

Does anybody wake up in the morning and think “I’d like politicians and bureaucrats to have more control over my life?”

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3 years

A Possible BTC Future:

A Possible BTC Future

Take this as a little piece of science fiction; the chances the future looks like this are small, but of all the possible futures I think this has as good a chance of any of happening: Imagine: it is...

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5 years

I bet people said: “A painter can create a MUCH higher quality image in a fraction of the time; photography will never take off!!!”

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This is the oldest surviving camera photograph. It was taken in 1826 and took 8 hours of exposure

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6 years

I’d be much happier paying taxes if they were trivial to calculate and I could decide which departments got the money.

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If people thought I had a lot of crypto-assets I’d be very tempted to publicly state I sold them all, whether I did or not. P.S. : I sold all of my crypto-assets.

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7 years

If BCH hashpower > BTC, I'll start referring to it as just 'Bitcoin' :

A definition of “Bitcoin”

Engineers are great at not seeing the forest for the trees. They get stuck on details and lose track of the bigger picture. I’ve seen it most often (and have been guilty myself) when they’re optimi...

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Early bitcoin devs luckily picked the right project at the right time. None are irreplaceable, bitcoin will succeed with or without us.

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7 years

Good people will praise folks they disagree with. Toxic people never do.

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6 years

Why many early crypto adopters are probably not as rich as you think:

Not as rich as you think…

People assume that the people who worked on Bitcoin in the early years are fabulously wealthy. That’s a bad assumption, for lots of reasons: It was easy to lose coins. They weren’t worth much, so...

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6 years

Just heard from another merchant adding BCH. I think we’ll see a wave of “dropping BTC, customer support costs too high” within six months. I might be wrong. And even if I’m right it might have negligible effect on short term BTC/BCH prices.

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Right now, there are over 1MB of BTC transactions paying a fee of more than 1,000 satoshis/byte waiting for confirmation. So next-block-or-two confirmation for a median-size transaction will cost you about $38.

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I've been playing with @TornadoCash and have started thinking about what an easy-to-use wallet built on top of it might be like.

tornado

tornado is a smart contract running on Ethereum. When I say smart, I mean really wicked-smart; it uses “Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge” cryptography (ZkSNARK) so the...

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2 years

They decided they had enough information about me, case closed. But I still don’t know why they wanted bank statements (I know “kyc” but do they really need to know three months of details in my personal banking activity?)

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5 years

What is better than "be your own bank"? Be everybody's bank. I've been pleasantly surprised at the ease of use of Coinbase Wallet + + #DeFi

Uniswap Interface

Swap or provide liquidity on the Uniswap Protocol

app.uniswap.org

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The world would be a better place if people let go of their egos and stopped worrying about who came up with an idea first. Academics, I’m looking at you....

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6 years

Censorship-resistant, open-protocol Twitter? Sounds good to me! (BUT READ THEIR DISCLAIMER!)

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5 years

I think everybody should feel OK about spending a little money on stupid shit. But if you have lots and you’re not using most of it to try to make the world better you should feel ashamed.

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Satoshi might turn out to be wrong about this. In ten years BTC could be a niche coin for gold bugs, with about the same transaction volume as today.

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4 years

"I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume." - Satoshi Nakamoto

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6 years

Who owns the word ‘Dollar’ ?

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6 years

I just realized I have: bought, sold, earned, spent, given, received, lost, destroyed, had stolen and mined bitcoins.

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“We broke the attack-net and discovered a 9-year-old bug in the Go standard library” is a very positive sign. As is the stream of updates showing consistent forward progress; kudos to everybody working on eth2.

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4 years

The latest What's New in Eth2 is ready for y'all! 🚀 Medalla testnet 🤓 Cryptography 🤯 Great explainers 🎉 EDCON And so much more! All in the usual place:

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7 years

Techies seem to be eternally surprised and disappointed that the most sophisticated tech doesn't always win.

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6 years

@MrChrisEllis I thought Ethereum was over-ambitious and would be vaporware. I was wrong.

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10 years

I'm disappointed Newsweek decided to dox the Nakamoto family, and regret talking to Leah.

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4 years

I have a joke about banks, but I need to see two forms of ID before I tell it to you.

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4 years

@gladstein More plausible: btc was hijacked by a corporation named Blockstream, by hiring key developers and heavily censoring discussions. But I don’t believe either of those narratives; it is sad the community split into spiteful, warring factions.

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6 years

Today is the final settlement date for CBOE ‘XBT/F8’ futures.

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4 years

So... lightning will be ready for mere mortals in 2022?

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4 years

Taken together, those technologies will make channel and liquidity management much easier. They'll be automated, fade into the background and user experience will improve drastically.

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7 years

Software folks tend to forget the ‘hardware is cheap; people are expensive’ rule of thumb.

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7 years

Be careful how you use your private keys; practice safe signing:

Practice Safe Signing

Are you holding some cryptocurrency secured by a paper wallet in a safe deposit box? Good for you! That’s an excellent way to keep it safe. But then your currency splits. Last week that piece of...

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6 years

I hope some Tether person writes up an insider’s description of what is happening behind the scenes right now as the peg fails; I’m sure there are lessons other “stablecoins” can learn.

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4 years

Ummm... if this happens I’m definitely living in a simulation.

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4 years

I had a weird dream where Trump died of coronavirus but still got re-elected.

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7 years

Next BTC drama: watch the 'never hard fork without unanimity' folks justify an 'emergency' difficulty- or POW-change hard fork.

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6 years

It is a bad idea to make security-critical software more complex so it is optimized for non-existent hardware. Actually, it is usually a bad idea to make security-critical software more complex, period.

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6 years

“Each pair of socks is 50BTC...”

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4 years

I think there is a reasonably good chance in five years there are more wrapped-BTC transactions on another chain than main-BTC-chain txs+lightning transactions.

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8 years

Ethereum has more nodes today than Bitcoin. Prediction: it's lead will grow even as its blockchain size exceeds bitcoin's.

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6 years

@Bitcoin Maybe 18 more months. A year or three ago I was ridiculed for predicting it would take until at least 2020 for Lightning to be user-friendly and secure; it is an order of magnitude more complex than Bitcoin.

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5 years

I donated blood today; yay me! (I usually avoid bragging, but there is some research that bragging about altruism helps inspires others to be altruistic)

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7 years

Proof of work is Bitcoin's consensus mechanism. If you want to change it, knock yourself out, but be honest about what you're trying to do.

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6 years

Judge teams creating software by how they handle serious bugs. Are they fixed reasonably quickly? Is the problem communicated clearly? And do they release a public post-mortem reflecting on what went wrong and what will be done better next time?

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7 years

The plan was always on-chain for everything except sub-penny micropayments.

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7 years

Those claiming to "follow Satoshi's vision" ignore that even he said #Bitcoin wasn't practical for cup of coffee on-chain. 2nd layer #SegWit

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6 years

Feels like we’re in another summer slump for cryptoassets (Mike Hearn wrote about the pattern three years ago: )

Bitcoin’s seasonal affective disorder

In the past couple of years Bitcoin has been settling into a regular seasonal growth pattern, in which growth stops during the summer and…

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8 years

Today I'm thinking: @aantonop is a very wise man. And: "we are all Satoshi" is such a lovely idea; might say "yes" when asked "are you?"

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6 years

Yes, even BTC.

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6 years

Reminder: cryptocurrencies are still a new and hyper-volatile asset class, and could drop to near-zero at any time. Don't put in more money than you can afford to lose. If you're trying to figure out where to store your life savings, traditional assets are still your safest bet.

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@starkness @zaoyang ETH has 80% of BTC volume and is scaling with little drama. BTC's scaling 'problem' is due to a few 'we know what's best' devs

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@eric_lombrozo Ethereum processes more tx. Has lower fees. And more p2p nodes. What will it take to convince you more scale means more decentralization?

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4 years

Many lefties seem to think “you’re a bad person if you have a lot.” Many righties seem to think “you’re a good person if you have a lot.” I think people should be judged by what they do with what they have.

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@adam3us We should denounce lack of transparency, lying, and breaking promises when we see those things happening. I haven’t been paying close attention, but it seems to me Bitfinex and Tether have not been open and honest stewards of other people’s money.

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4 years

I had a weird dream where Trump died of coronavirus but still got re-elected.

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6 years

My opinion of the accuracy of stylometry dropped significantly after reading this

Bootstrapped Gavin: Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity revealed!

We identified Bitcoin Cash developer Gavin Andresen as being the real Satoshi Nakamoto using Eder’s bootstrapped stylometry method. This finding supports our previous article on the topic that also...

zycrypto.com

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6 years

I’m surprised the IRS tax return databases haven’t been hacked/leaked yet. Maybe a hidden benefit of using ancient, outdated tech?

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7 years

Bitcoin Cash mining difficulty resets tomorrow. Will be fascinating to watch over the next few days.

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7 years

I predict Lightning Network will be highly centralized in practice (big hubs at wallets/exchanges will dominate). I'm ok with that, too.

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6 years

As facial recognition becomes more ubiquitous it seems likely veils will become fashionable. Maybe celebrities trying to avoid paparazzi drones will be the early adopters.

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3 years

You must invest 32 ETH ($50,000) to be an ethereum 2.0 validator. Seems reasonable to me to pay for a beefy machine with a couple terabytes of memory to validate ethereum 1.0.

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If your system relies on having “the right people” in charge to function properly then you need to fix your system. Design your systems so bad people will benefit if they do good things.

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If you feel disempowered because bad people are in charge, maybe the problem is the system that gives those people power over your life.

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6 years

I’m an immigrant.

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6 years

I’ll be criticized for tweeting this link:

Bitcoin Capacity Increases FAQ

bitcoincore.org

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Run Bitcoin Unlimited. It is a viable, practical solution to destructive transaction congestion.

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7 years

I'm proud to be part of the 99+% not running a full node. Zero reason for me to waste bandwidth monitoring other people's transactions.

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Bitcoin Core is still terrible at communication. Nothing but minor release announcements since August: (Compare with for example)

Blog

Latest posts: Electric Coin Company…

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8 years

I wish our brains were better at separating "I disapprove" from "Untrue" And our hearts were better at loving people who tell hard truths

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2 years

Zooko was absolutely right. Bitcoin has been extremely robust (“what if China bans mining” is the latest example)

zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ

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@gavinandresen Mark my words, it will be useful many times in the future to say "Actually that happened and Bitcoin didn't collapse."

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5 years

Voting is overrated.

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4 years

Mainstream media is still about a week behind, talking about testing when they should be focusing on hospital capacity, social distancing measures and what to do when you get sick.

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I'm happy to see segwit gaining popularity, and hope it gets adopted to solve transaction malleability and enable advanced use cases.

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7 years

Nobody's perfect, so let's create monuments to great ideas and not people.

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6 years

Website idea: “Should I move it?” Enter amount of BTC on an exchange, and estimated risk exchange will disappear. Get advice on whether it makes economic sense to move funds off the exchange, based on current tx fees.

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I’m happy to see news organizations declining to name mass shooters. I’ll be unfollowing/muting anybody who does refer to them by name.

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Some people like lots of drama in their life. I sometimes think I want to be one of those people, but I’m pretty sure I’m too lazy to make that work.

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6 years

So meltdown/spectre patches make systems slower. So more CPUs needed to handle existing workload. So... higher sales/profits for Intel/ARM?

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7 years

Excellent ‘un-governance governance’ document from @Falkvinge

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5 years

If you find yourself working around wonky code written to workaround an issue with some ancient code... it is time to refactor. The same applies to design; don’t build fragile towers of complexity.

Lightning Network 2.0

Understanding the next wave of Lightning Network innovations, and the obstacles they seek to overcome on the winding road to a scalable…

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One miner loses $12k from BU bug, some Core devs scream. Users pay millions in excessive tx fees over the last year "meh, not a priority"

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Money laundering is the opposite of tax evasion. The goal of laundering is to have a legitimate-looking stream of income, and a big part of looking legit is paying all the taxes.

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6 years

Sometimes I’m dumb. Sometimes I pretend to be dumb. Sometimes I pretend I was pretending; plausible deniability!

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5 years

Is there a political party somewhere in the world with a platform of making government simpler? Can we convince Marie Kondo to start one? “We must repeal laws unless they spark joy....”

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I love this: self-organized “we’re gonna figure out how well this ACTUALLY works” testing.

✨Reina Nakamoto✨ 🕊🐭

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6 years

@davecraige Use Bitcoin Cash: We tested escrowed micropayments out of our multisig wallet. it took about 10 seconds for me to receive the payment proposal, 2 sec to confirm it, waited for the broadcast, it got to @haydentiff in a few seconds. Here you can see at least 4 transactions per min

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Let's stop making tempests in teapots; who has commit access is not important (we have gitian). Stop bashing @orionwl

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7 years

Blockstream's satellite thingy is highly centralized. I'm ok with that, you can start your own satellite thing if you like.

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6 years

Ask a programmer “what’s the first number” they’ll probably say zero. We’re weird that way.

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3 years

There’s a devil in the details of the El Salvador bitcoin story.

George Selgin

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3 years

Thread: Bukele's Bitcoin legislation is certainly a win for Bitcoin. But is it a win for freedom?

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9 years

Today was a productive coding day: 60x faster, 10x less memory, 1 new unit test, in 41 fewer lines of code.

Optimize block validation code and block propagation speed by gavinandresen · Pull Request #5835 ·...

I was running some benchmarks on 20MB blocks, and was surprised at how long block validation took even when all transactions had already been seen and were in the signature cache. So I moved cachin...

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6 years

I think the biggest downside of PoS is how to distribute the tokens fairly (or, equivalently, who are the initial stakers?)

Brian Fabian Crain

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6 years

16/ The biggest downside of PoS is that it is more complicated than PoW and less battle-tested. So it will take a few years of experimentation to get this right. But many high-quality PoS projects are about to launch.

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@el33th4xor @Falkvinge Or maybe think about a process for deciding technical changes, regardless of who proposes them.

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11 years

Happy Halving Day everybody! #bitcoin

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7 years

It's not ok for Ethereum to change their rules to undo a theft, but it is ok for Bitcoin to change the rules to prevent an optimization?

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@gladstein segwit without 2mb happened because some big miners decided to go with Luke/Greg/blockstream. Full nodes had very little to do with it; all of the ‘UASF’ talk was just a giant FUD smokescreen, in my humble opinion. But you don’t care what I think...

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Running BU is saying 'I'm ready for bigger blocks whenever there is wide consensus for bigger blocks' Not 'let's fork ASAP'

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