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Topic: Coinbase CEO: bitcoin is far ahead! Altcoins are distractions! - page 2. (Read 10474 times)

legendary
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Altcoins are basically useless except for demonstrating/testing out new ideas or perhaps as a fork if Bitcoin got too corrupted.
at this moment, the only use any altcoin out there has is just to put money in a few people's pockets. if you see the price change of any altcoin, you can see lots and lots of pumps and dumps which a few people are getting rich by.

Most the use of most altcoins is indeed to make money to a small number of people.

If an altcoin truly had an innovative feature, I am sure it will get adopted in Bitcoin as well.
hero member
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Litecoin Association Director
Very important video interview!  Brian Armstrong talks with Altcoin developers on how to integrate into Coinbase.

Must watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIasr2AiyZ0
My sides, that is just amazing, the best version of this is the Minecraft one.



The vid was pretty damn funny (saw it last night btw unrelated to this thread).


Just an FYI, Brian never answered publicly as far as I know. But I have heard he would rather not take me up on my offer Smiley.
sr. member
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Very important video interview!  Brian Armstrong talks with Altcoin developers on how to integrate into Coinbase.

Must watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIasr2AiyZ0
My sides, that is just amazing, the best version of this is the Minecraft one.
hero member
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better everyday ♥
Very important video interview!  Brian Armstrong talks with Altcoin developers on how to integrate into Coinbase.

Must watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIasr2AiyZ0
hero member
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https://youtu.be/PZm8TTLR2NU
Bitcoin is plenty corrupt and plenty of Pump n dumps...
What's the matter capitalist, the market leaving you butthurt? You don't like the game because other people have more pieces than you do?
Awwww, poor little guy, he still thinks he can win the game! I'm afraid there's no room for you at the top of the pyramid, my child. You will have to remain poor forever.

Harsh reality: If you're not already among the global wealthiest ten percent, odds are high you'll be getting poorer in the coming decades. Automation is a bitch of a thing.
This is the beginning of the end of the nation state and capitalism as we know it. Divesting everything from fiat is your only hope to survive the coming transition.
hero member
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Altcoins are basically useless except for demonstrating/testing out new ideas or perhaps as a fork if Bitcoin got too corrupted.
at this moment, the only use any altcoin out there has is just to put money in a few people's pockets. if you see the price change of any altcoin, you can see lots and lots of pumps and dumps which a few people are getting rich by.

Most the use of most altcoins is indeed to make money to a small number of people.
legendary
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Owner at AltQuick.com
Altcoins are basically useless except for demonstrating/testing out new ideas or perhaps as a fork if Bitcoin got too corrupted.
at this moment, the only use any altcoin out there has is just to put money in a few people's pockets. if you see the price change of any altcoin, you can see lots and lots of pumps and dumps which a few people are getting rich by.

Bitcoin is plenty corrupt and plenty of Pump n dumps... last one was cause of Coinbase actually and their Rick Rolling news.  I wonder if Coinbase tries to grab the lime light again on this little rise.
legendary
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Altcoins are basically useless except for demonstrating/testing out new ideas or perhaps as a fork if Bitcoin got too corrupted.
at this moment, the only use any altcoin out there has is just to put money in a few people's pockets. if you see the price change of any altcoin, you can see lots and lots of pumps and dumps which a few people are getting rich by.
legendary
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Altcoins are basically useless except for demonstrating/testing out new ideas or perhaps as a fork if Bitcoin got too corrupted.

They aren't useless but they don't present anything new that would overshadow Bitcoin.

sr. member
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I use altcoins all the time (mainly just Dogecoin now). But its annoying when people who love these altcoins say it will take over Bitcoin, That will never happen..
hero member
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https://youtu.be/PZm8TTLR2NU
Yes, I already agreed to this. Bitcoin only solves the BGP if you assume the network isn't compromised. Strictly speaking, Bitcoin cannot solve the  Byzantine Generals' Problem, but neither can anything else with 100% confidence. This is why it is a "dilemma" or "problem"  and why researchers study probabilistic solutions to solving the Byzantine fault tolerance problems.
Strictly speaking, on paper the dilemma may remain forever "unsolvable". However, each and every day of bitcoin's existence, the problem of trust is solved in practice.

And it's getting bigger and more valuable.
hero member
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better everyday ♥
Brian Armstrong must have come to this conclusion after watching this interview with an altcoin developer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIasr2AiyZ0

That was a great interview

Best I've seen so far.  Just spot on take by this alt coin developer.  They really get to the nitty gritty and technical focus of why Altcoins matter.

Bitcoin is I'm afraid doomed by this video's developer take on Altcoins.   Cry Cry

legendary
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Brian Armstrong must have come to this conclusion after watching this interview with an altcoin developer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIasr2AiyZ0

That was a great interview
hero member
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Brian Armstrong must have come to this conclusion after watching this interview with an altcoin developer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIasr2AiyZ0
hero member
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eidoo wallet
There have been other digital "currencies" before Bitcoin, so Satoshi essentially reinvented the wheel as well. In fact, every invention that came after the discovery of fire and the making of the wheel, is what we deem "reinventing the wheel", as we base and grow inventions based upon what others invented in the past.
Flatly incorrect. Satoshi solved the byzantine general's problem, a solution which had eluded computer scientists for decades.

Satoshi did not solve the Byzantine generals problem. He "partially" solved it. It's fully unsolvable as of yet.

There's even a thread on that exact topic.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/who-solved-the-bizantine-generals-problem-934626

Does HYPERLEDGER really solve the Bizantine Generals problem if it has to assume that 66.6% of nodes are trusted?

I can't say anything regarding this issue.

Well, maybe BGP is not solved yet. Anyway, this doesn't change the fact that Satoshi didn't solve BGP.

Yes, I already agreed to this. Bitcoin only solves the BGP if you assume the network isn't compromised. Strictly speaking, Bitcoin cannot solve the  Byzantine Generals' Problem, but neither can anything else with 100% confidence. This is why it is a "dilemma" or "problem"  and why researchers study probabilistic solutions to solving the Byzantine fault tolerance problems.

hero member
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https://youtu.be/PZm8TTLR2NU
The "there can only be one" camp of Bitcoiners do not understand that altcoins supporters don't necessarily think that any altcoin will overtake Bitcoin in value. I can't speak for everyone, but I believe that Bitcoin will always be the "one" cryptocurrency, the crypto reserve currency.* But there will always be room for a few more cryptocurrencies that are adopted widely just like Bitcoin. These cryptocurrencies will have independent economic models and not pegged to Bitcoin and will have a free-floating market price.
All true, except you conveniently didn't mention the free-floating market price of all these reinvented wheels will be free-falling down to zero as bitcoin matures.

Sperm is a fun analogy. There are currently lots of swimmers furiously trying to get to the egg of mass adoption. Once the strongest fights its way in the rest will fall away.
Well said!
legendary
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Welt Am Draht
The "there can only be one" camp of Bitcoiners do not understand that altcoins supporters don't necessarily think that any altcoin will overtake Bitcoin in value. I can't speak for everyone, but I believe that Bitcoin will always be the "one" cryptocurrency, the crypto reserve currency.* But there will always be room for a few more cryptocurrencies that are adopted widely just like Bitcoin. These cryptocurrencies will have independent economic models and not pegged to Bitcoin and will have a free-floating market price.
All true, except you conveniently didn't mention the free-floating market price of all these reinvented wheels will be free-falling down to zero as bitcoin matures.

Sperm is a fun analogy. There are currently lots of swimmers furiously trying to get to the egg of mass adoption. Once the strongest fights its way in the rest will fall away or just swim around forlornly until they're dead.
hero member
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https://youtu.be/PZm8TTLR2NU
There have been other digital "currencies" before Bitcoin, so Satoshi essentially reinvented the wheel as well. In fact, every invention that came after the discovery of fire and the making of the wheel, is what we deem "reinventing the wheel", as we base and grow inventions based upon what others invented in the past.
Flatly incorrect. Satoshi solved the byzantine general's problem, a solution which had eluded computer scientists for decades.
hero member
Activity: 784
Merit: 1000
https://youtu.be/PZm8TTLR2NU
The "there can only be one" camp of Bitcoiners do not understand that altcoins supporters don't necessarily think that any altcoin will overtake Bitcoin in value. I can't speak for everyone, but I believe that Bitcoin will always be the "one" cryptocurrency, the crypto reserve currency.* But there will always be room for a few more cryptocurrencies that are adopted widely just like Bitcoin. These cryptocurrencies will have independent economic models and not pegged to Bitcoin and will have a free-floating market price.
All true, except you conveniently didn't mention that the "free-floating market price" of all these reinvented wheels will be free-falling down to zero as bitcoin matures.
full member
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Altcoins are basically useless except for demonstrating/testing out new ideas or perhaps as a fork if Bitcoin got too corrupted.

Which comes from someone who does not make money from alts because if he did he would know they are more than useless and they in fact a money maker. You are right about them being good for testing out new ideas etc but one of these will creep up before you know it, can't put a lid on better tech for long.
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