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Re:Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global curr... by em3rgent0rdr on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @09:19PM (#16120987)
Still the argument that "high transaction costs are because the blocks are too small" doesn't conflict with the argument that there is no easy way to change the code running bitcoin's blockchain, and in fact the latter would allow the former.
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Re:Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global curr... by disordinary on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @09:25PM (#16121000)
It's very easy to change. You just fork it.
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Re:Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global curr... by em3rgent0rdr on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @09:53PM (#16121113)
No, forking bitcoin doesn't change the code running bitcoin's blockchain. Carefully re-read what I wrote: "no easy way to change the code running bitcoin's blockchain".
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Re:Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global curr... by disordinary on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @10:07PM (#16121160)
Of course it does, that's exactly what a fork is.

Or, maybe the question is what is the bitcoin blockchain? The truth is there is no such thing.

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