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Quote from: neowne on September 27, 2017, 08:41:02 AM

Hello

I have a question about the next fork, that could probably come in November 2017.
When the first fork happened, I was holding 0.5 BTC and got the same in BCH (nice fork Grin

)

So now I have 0.5 BTC and 0.5 BCH.
What happens on the next fork?
Will I get 0.5 BTC of that new third coin, or will I get 1 coin?
Basically, am I getting only new coins for the BTC I hodl or also for the BCH?
Sorry for my noob question, but I could not find any answer to this yet.
Thank you!

It's like a father(BTC) having two children (Bch and B**) where the second child(B**) will only receive his blessings from his father(Btc) and not from his brother(Bch).
What ever you receive is from Btc, and you will receive the new coin if your wallet support the fork.

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Quote from: karmakeddon on October 08, 2017, 10:32:05 PM

Quote from: myfranco on October 08, 2017, 04:56:57 PM

As far as i understand, the least risky way is to keep BTC in Exchange. If doing new investment for alts, better to wait for the after-fork. If you have better advise, you please shed light.

No. Maybe you are somewhat a new user and have not experienced the MtGox scandal. It is NEVER safe to keep your coins in an exchange unless you are trading with them or funding a loan for someone. There are a lot of things that could happen to exchanges when forks happen.

1. If ever there is a new coin created during the fork, you will never have access to those currencies. Why? These exchanges will not give it to you.

2. If something goes wrong with the fork, some shady exchanges can just say "Oh, we lost your funds blah blah blah".And that my friend is reality.

There are a lot more factors that has been mentioned by the post above me and all those are true.

I know MtGox scandal. I was thinking Binance and Bittrex actually. I have alts at the moments and not touching them but i would invest 2BTC for new alts. I thought it would be wise to wait for a couple of days, BTC rises a bit and since alts are dropping, it would make a good entry point for them.

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Quote from: DooMAD on October 08, 2017, 09:54:12 PM

Quote from: myfranco on October 08, 2017, 04:56:57 PM

As far as i understand, the least risky way is to keep BTC in Exchange.

Nope, that's pretty risky. First you have to hope that your preferred exchange even recognises your preferred fork and allows you to access coins on that chain. Then you have to hope that the exchange doesn't get hacked, go bankrupt, get raided by their local government law enforcement or shut down by local regulators. Theres's a lot that can potentially go wrong. You have to place a huge amount of trust in a third party when Bitcoin wasn't designed to work that way.

It's generally accepted that if you don't have full and sole control of your private keys, you don't have control of your funds. You have some IOUs. A bit like fiat. A figure stated on a screen that may or may not represent actual value. At any given time, you have no assurance that the exchange you're using has adequate funds to keep everyone whole if there were a crisis in confidence and everyone decided to withdraw at once.

If you feel that you have to use exchanges, don't put all your funds on there. That's how plenty of people have lost everything they had. Learn from their mistakes. Only gamble what you can afford to lose.

Thank you for your answer. Do you recommend Offline or paper wallet in that case?

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Quote from: myfranco on October 08, 2017, 04:56:57 PM

As far as i understand, the least risky way is to keep BTC in Exchange. If doing new investment for alts, better to wait for the after-fork. If you have better advise, you please shed light.

No. Maybe you are somewhat a new user and have not experienced the MtGox scandal. It is NEVER safe to keep your coins in an exchange unless you are trading with them or funding a loan for someone. There are a lot of things that could happen to exchanges when forks happen.

1. If ever there is a new coin created during the fork, you will never have access to those currencies. Why? These exchanges will not give it to you.

2. If something goes wrong with the fork, some shady exchanges can just say "Oh, we lost your funds blah blah blah".And that my friend is reality.

There are a lot more factors that has been mentioned by the post above me and all those are true.

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Quote from: myfranco on October 08, 2017, 04:56:57 PM

As far as i understand, the least risky way is to keep BTC in Exchange.

Nope, that's pretty risky. First you have to hope that your preferred exchange even recognises your preferred fork and allows you to access coins on that chain. Then you have to hope that the exchange doesn't get hacked, go bankrupt, get raided by their local government law enforcement or shut down by local regulators. Theres's a lot that can potentially go wrong. You have to place a huge amount of trust in a third party when Bitcoin wasn't designed to work that way.

It's generally accepted that if you don't have full and sole control of your private keys, you don't have control of your funds. You have some IOUs. A bit like fiat. A figure stated on a screen that may or may not represent actual value. At any given time, you have no assurance that the exchange you're using has adequate funds to keep everyone whole if there were a crisis in confidence and everyone decided to withdraw at once.

If you feel that you have to use exchanges, don't put all your funds on there. That's how plenty of people have lost everything they had. Learn from their mistakes. Only gamble what you can afford to lose.

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As far as i understand, the least risky way is to keep BTC in Exchange. If doing new investment for alts, better to wait for the after-fork. If you have better advise, you please shed light.

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I think constant fork on btc will cause a lot of panic and frustration on persons holding and managing their btc and even the success of bitcoin in the future.

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I wish they would get on and stabilise things. I'm still running 0.14.1 until things get sorted out.

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Quote from: bitcoinmaniac52 on October 05, 2017, 04:40:24 PM

Quote from: Gimpeline on October 05, 2017, 03:18:00 PM

Quote from: aywin on October 05, 2017, 02:21:55 PM

Forks are normal part of blockchain evolution. They'll never "finish". In future community will start to accept them as something completely normal and forks won't affect the market that much anymore.

And to clarify about the fork date. There will be two hard forks this autumn. First will be on 25 October and we will get new coin Bitcoin Gold. The other one should happen in November as part of the Segwit 2x upgrade. It will upgrade block size form 1MB to 2MB. As with any hard fork, some miners could decide to remain mining the old fork, so theoretically another new Bitcoin forked coin is possible.

Why do people repeat this 1mb to 2 mb?
We are already past the old 1 mb limit
Segwit is 4x the old limit. We have already blocks that is bigger than 1 mb

The problem with just increasing the blocksize is eventually we will need 1GB blocksizes. lol

The better solution is lightning network. One where small, insignificant transactions are not clogging up the important ones on the network. We need it asap!

I think we should look at something like BlockSquash Once the history has been "agreed" by conformations the data is then compacted somehow say 1 week of 1 month at a time that the data could then have some signature that allows checking of the history to make sure it is accurate.

I agree though blocksize only works in the short term and will put home node owners out of the picture as the space required to run one goes up and up.

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Quote from: nibor on October 04, 2017, 06:14:35 PM

I think part of the reason bitcoin cash has not crashed is a lot of coins are in cold storage. And is risky moving them - and the risk is not worth the 10% reward for a lot of people.

Exactly this. Some people have lost coins they were holding for years due to the BCH fork. The risk reward ratio isn't worth it for a lot of people who got multiple bitcoins locked away for the upcoming years.
I just hope we don't fork at all but if we do I hope the other chain loses support and dies off. We really don't need 2 altcoins with bitcoin in their name.

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Quote from: Gimpeline on October 05, 2017, 03:18:00 PM

Quote from: aywin on October 05, 2017, 02:21:55 PM

Forks are normal part of blockchain evolution. They'll never "finish". In future community will start to accept them as something completely normal and forks won't affect the market that much anymore.

And to clarify about the fork date. There will be two hard forks this autumn. First will be on 25 October and we will get new coin Bitcoin Gold. The other one should happen in November as part of the Segwit 2x upgrade. It will upgrade block size form 1MB to 2MB. As with any hard fork, some miners could decide to remain mining the old fork, so theoretically another new Bitcoin forked coin is possible.

Why do people repeat this 1mb to 2 mb?
We are already past the old 1 mb limit
Segwit is 4x the old limit. We have already blocks that is bigger than 1 mb

Any links where I could read that? I can't claim what the size of block is from experience because I don't mine Bitcoin, but everywhere I read it was stated it will increase to to 2MB.

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Quote from: Gimpeline on October 05, 2017, 03:18:00 PM

Quote from: aywin on October 05, 2017, 02:21:55 PM

Forks are normal part of blockchain evolution. They'll never "finish". In future community will start to accept them as something completely normal and forks won't affect the market that much anymore.

And to clarify about the fork date. There will be two hard forks this autumn. First will be on 25 October and we will get new coin Bitcoin Gold. The other one should happen in November as part of the Segwit 2x upgrade. It will upgrade block size form 1MB to 2MB. As with any hard fork, some miners could decide to remain mining the old fork, so theoretically another new Bitcoin forked coin is possible.

Why do people repeat this 1mb to 2 mb?
We are already past the old 1 mb limit
Segwit is 4x the old limit. We have already blocks that is bigger than 1 mb

The problem with just increasing the blocksize is eventually we will need 1GB blocksizes. lol

The better solution is lightning network. One where small, insignificant transactions are not clogging up the important ones on the network. We need it asap!

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Wasn't the Bitcoin Cash fork only in August? I was under the impression the next one was Bitcoin Gold at the end of this month.

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Quote from: aywin on October 05, 2017, 02:21:55 PM

Forks are normal part of blockchain evolution. They'll never "finish". In future community will start to accept them as something completely normal and forks won't affect the market that much anymore.

And to clarify about the fork date. There will be two hard forks this autumn. First will be on 25 October and we will get new coin Bitcoin Gold. The other one should happen in November as part of the Segwit 2x upgrade. It will upgrade block size form 1MB to 2MB. As with any hard fork, some miners could decide to remain mining the old fork, so theoretically another new Bitcoin forked coin is possible.

Why do people repeat this 1mb to 2 mb?
We are already past the old 1 mb limit
Segwit is 4x the old limit. We have already blocks that is bigger than 1 mb

aywin

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Forks are normal part of blockchain evolution. They'll never "finish". In future community will start to accept them as something completely normal and forks won't affect the market that much anymore.

And to clarify about the fork date. There will be two hard forks this autumn. First will be on 25 October and we will get new coin Bitcoin Gold. The other one should happen in November as part of the Segwit 2x upgrade. It will upgrade block size form 1MB to 2MB. As with any hard fork, some miners could decide to remain mining the old fork, so theoretically another new Bitcoin forked coin is possible.

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when will new forks or fork news finish?
forks delay the rise of btc and altcoins.
i want no fork and then btc will go to the moon:)

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Such crazy market cap (so much money in BTC) and yet all this money doesn't change how shit PR is... We have this fluid dates and fluid info, wish this was more public and transparent. As long as I have to resort to forums and haunt for info (work my ass off to keep my self updated on the matters) I will remain sceptic and avoid putting any more money in to BTC.

Don't get me wrong, I believe in BTC for what it stands for and I want it MOON af, but these developers made me sold everything a while ago at 4480 USD and invested in some alt coins instead. This drama... the feud between developers, miners etc. doesn't give me any positive impressions :S

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when btc forks into segwit2x
wich fork will keep the original bitcoin name, and how is this decided?

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I'm not going to speculate about this, it's better to wait for a reliable notice so we stay calm in the face of any conditions.

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Quote from: nibor on October 04, 2017, 06:14:35 PM

I think part of the reason bitcoin cash has not crashed is a lot of coins are in cold storage. And is risky moving them - and the risk is not worth the 10% reward for a lot of people.

Its only risky moving BCH if you still have your BCH on Same addresses as your BTC.
You can first Split your coins into two wallets, then you are Safe to move your coins as you wish.

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