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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by pmorici on Saturday December 09, 2017 @08:29PM (#15889250)
It is about 60 days ahead at most and it doesn't matter because the hard cap of 21 million coins is till the same. This has gotta be the dumbest argument I've ever heard.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by grubles on Saturday December 09, 2017 @09:56PM (#15889587)
The hard cap is the same until it isn't -- when Bcash has to hard fork to infinite inflation in order to incentivize mining because fees won't supplant the mining reward.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by pmorici on Saturday December 09, 2017 @11:29PM (#15889919)
Not gonna happen.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by grubles on Monday December 11, 2017 @10:39AM (#15897667)
Explain to me what will incentivize mining on Bcash when the fees are too low compared to Bitcoin? The mining subsidy, by design, is eventually supplanted by transaction fees.
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