Re:Bitcoin Is Near All-Time Highs and the Mainstream Doesn't...
by trixie_ on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:58PM
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No, I'm thinking of Bitcoin. The BCH fork is interesting, but not as universally accepted or tradable as BTC is. There are already alt coins with higher transaction rates than BTC and BCH so the fork wasn't really necessary.
Re:Bitcoin Is Near All-Time Highs and the Mainstream Doesn't...
by UShouldBWorking on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:32AM
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I disagree. BCH needed to fork before SegWit activated to stop Blockstream from co-opting Bitcoin into a settlement layer for their second layer products. Thank God we still have an untainted Bitcoin.
Re:Bitcoin Is Near All-Time Highs and the Mainstream Doesn't...
by dang on Thursday November 26, 2020 @02:19AM
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Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
You must be thinking of Bitcoin Cash. Only BCH follows the original design and intention of the Bitcoin White Paper to be Peer-to-Peer digital cash, the BTC chain was co-opted years ago by Blockstream and has been perverted into some wildly expensive settlement layer for their own 2nd layer products.