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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by 16th_hop on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:04PM (#16216355)
Bitcoin cash is much closer to the original implementation by Satoshi Nakamoto. It's simply a much smaller, and IMO, cleaner codebase that just increased one parameter to achieve scaling.

Bitcoin core (what we call BTC) has many more lines of non-Satoshi code that was added to facilitate off-chain scaling.

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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by josu on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:03PM (#16219989)
The thing is that Satoshi never left a roadmap, and indefinitely increasing the block size to meet demand isn't plausible. So even if bcash were to become the "real bitcoin" it would have to come up with an off-chain solution.

SegWit and Lightning are such elegant solutions that I can't really see a person as brilliant as Satoshi rejecting it.

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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by lrns_ on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:43AM (#16230675)
Bitcoin Cash is a non-evolving non-innovating whitepaper cult claiming to be btc because they believe btc should be exactly what was defined on a piece of paper 9 years ago, totally disregarding new/improved tech.
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by SnowProblem on Thursday January 25, 2018 @05:57PM (#16235533)
Not true. Bitcoin Cash supporters (including myself) just want on-chain scaling pursued. There's a lot you can do there (graphene, pruning, sharding) before resorting to off-chain scaling.
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