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Re:Bitcoin not for me, says Bill Gates by LeoPanthera on Friday February 26, 2021 @12:51AM (#26271733)
You don't really need to believe in anyone's "vision", you just need to look at what's happening, right now. BTC's transactions fees are very high, and transactions are often stuck in the mempool for quite some time.

That does not happen with BCH.

It's all very well claiming that BTC is more "decentralized", but if you can't actually use it to cheaply and quickly transact, then what is the point?

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Re:Bitcoin not for me, says Bill Gates by tracedddd on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:44AM (#26271970)
That doesn’t happen with BCH because they haven’t saturated their blocks. That doesn’t mean it’s a better approach.

I can decide to spend all my retirement savings over the next two years and, for a while, it would be quite nice. Should I then ask why anyone even bothers to save?

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Re:Bitcoin not for me, says Bill Gates by cmeacham98 on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:43AM (#26274656)
Why do you think the BCH blocks aren't filling up?

Maybe it has something to do with the increased block size?

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Re:Bitcoin not for me, says Bill Gates by CyberDildonics on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:03AM (#26274820)
Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum both exceed bitcoin's transaction throughput now. Ethereum has around 3x the transaction throughput.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-eth-bc...

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