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Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by pmorici on Sunday November 26, 2017 @06:32PM (#15783713)
Because supporters of Bitcoin Core want to dis-credit Bitcoin Cash and the way they are doing it is by promoting a bunch of increasingly scummy Bitcoin forks. Then they say hey look these forks are all scams. Bitcoin Cash is a fork there for it too is a scam. Nothing could be further from the truth though.
Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by anonymous5133 on Sunday November 26, 2017 @07:10PM (#15783859)
Agree, bitcoin cash from my experience has been more useful than bitcoin. I was able to send bitcoin cash without any fee at all and was able to get it confirmed in the next block mined.

It looks like bitcoin cash is going to be extremely useful for doing daily type transactions (ie. low dollar transactions etc.)

Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by tradersam on Sunday November 26, 2017 @07:22PM (#15783915)
Ver rode the Cash band-wagon to help his position of control over the ecosystem, as did many others. Hundreds of millions of value was created — and a lot instantly lost — in a day. It's been pumped over and over again by mining pools looking to make a quick buck while the difficulty is low as well.

That is where the "scam" lies. It isn't discrediting BCH — BCH already did that to itself.

Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by curyous on Sunday November 26, 2017 @10:27PM (#15784596)
Do you have a problem with Ver helping to restore Bitcoin’s original functionality of making instant, practically free transactions?

If you don’t like BCH then don’t use it, you can leave that to everyone else.

Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by tradersam on Sunday November 26, 2017 @10:45PM (#15784653)
"Everyone else". Lol.

24HR Transactions:

* BTC — 328,580 [1]

* BCH — 20,255 [2]

[1]: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/

[2]: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin%20cash/

Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by pmorici on Sunday November 26, 2017 @07:25PM (#15783928)
Here is an example of a typical clueless Bitcoin investor with irrational hate toward a prominent player in the space who did nothing more than express their genuinely held opinion.
Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by tradersam on Sunday November 26, 2017 @07:30PM (#15783950)
Well, good job at assuming incorrectly. You wouldn't know by my comment that I've been in the space since '11, or that I've contributed to the codebase (however slightly).

Nope, you just see a completely pragmatic view of Ver's actions as an attack, probably formed on the r/btc sub (that he mods).

I love how you say "completely clueless" too — because it's ironically you.

Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by pmorici on Sunday November 26, 2017 @08:06PM (#15784067)
So an individual exercising their economic freedom to buy and sell an asset and express their opinion is an "Attack" in your book?