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When will established business get wind of this new way of making tons of money?
Dear Gov't,When will established business get wind of this new way of making tons of money?
Businesses need money. Give us some.
Thanks bye.
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Businesses need money. Give us some.
Thanks bye.
I love coming back here every time I see the BTC price slip more and more but
the people here still are convinced gold is doomed. LOL.
the people here still are convinced gold is doomed. LOL.
They are convinced anything but Bitcoin is doomed. Even Doge is bad now, and it's as pure PoW as could be, wtf, I understand PoS worries as PoS requires a paradigm shift in thinking but Doge?
Blind bias hasn't ever got anyone very far, I guess they're soon to find that out from personal experience, and learn that diversification is the name of the game.
To generate a bitcoin is somewhat akin to generating electric and takes work (effort).
In the crypto world there are a lot of charlatans, XRP is a prime example, banks are given millions for free and you can buy them.
When will established business get wind of this new way of making tons of money?
Doge's Law: If cryptocurrency is open source and it is successful then it will be memed.
I think SCs will be cloned to death. There will be no incentive for a whale to corner an SC that he cannot build and market himself.
I think SCs will be cloned to death. There will be no incentive for a whale to corner an SC that he cannot build and market himself.
Except that DOGE hasn't been successfully cloned (and many have tried). Memes are marketing. Good marketing is hard and not obviously replicable.
You are missing the point. Once it is successfully memed then it can't be cloned to death. There will be many tries, but at some point one will dominate and then future meme clones will just fail. That's what happened after DOGE took off. There were cat coins, rapper coins, and all sorts of dumb attempts to clone it. They went nowhere. A year later DOGE is now #3 out of 1000+.
You obviously don't understand memes. I'm not hating doggie, it's funny and the press can't hate bitcoin and love doggies. It serves the purpose of being Bitcoin's fool. Every doge has its day. It's a great gimmick. They can't copy a caricature because then it just shows you have no imagination.
I love coming back here every time I see the BTC price slip more and more but
the people here still are convinced gold is doomed. LOL.
the people here still are convinced gold is doomed. LOL.
They are convinced anything but Bitcoin is doomed. Even Doge is bad now, and it's as pure PoW as could be, wtf, I understand PoS worries as PoS requires a paradigm shift in thinking but Doge?
Blind bias hasn't ever got anyone very far, I guess they're soon to find that out from personal experience, and learn that diversification is the name of the game.
Doge's Law: If cryptocurrency is open source and it is successful then it will be memed.
I think SCs will be cloned to death. There will be no incentive for a whale to corner an SC that he cannot build and market himself.
I think SCs will be cloned to death. There will be no incentive for a whale to corner an SC that he cannot build and market himself.
Except that DOGE hasn't been successfully cloned (and many have tried). Memes are marketing. Good marketing is hard and not obviously replicable.
You are missing the point. Once it is successfully memed then it can't be cloned to death. There will be many tries, but at some point one will dominate and then future meme clones will just fail. That's what happened after DOGE took off. There were cat coins, rapper coins, and all sorts of dumb attempts to clone it. They went nowhere. A year later DOGE is now #3 out of 1000+.
I love coming back here every time I see the BTC price slip more and more but
the people here still are convinced gold is doomed. LOL.
the people here still are convinced gold is doomed. LOL.
When Bitcoin goes up in price and all you have is Gold which apparently no-one want's.. to buy bitcoin, you know the gov want's their gold back.. figure it out..
Doge's Law: If cryptocurrency is open source and it is successful then it will be memed.
I think SCs will be cloned to death. There will be no incentive for a whale to corner an SC that he cannot build and market himself.
I think SCs will be cloned to death. There will be no incentive for a whale to corner an SC that he cannot build and market himself.
Except that DOGE hasn't been successfully cloned (and many have tried). Memes are marketing. Good marketing is hard and not obviously replicable.
Doge's Law: If cryptocurrency is open source and it is successful then it will be memed.
I think SCs will be cloned to death. There will be no incentive for a whale to corner an SC that he cannot build and market himself.
I think SCs will be cloned to death. There will be no incentive for a whale to corner an SC that he cannot build and market himself.
Except that DOGE hasn't been successfully cloned (and many have tried). Memes are marketing. Good marketing is hard and not obviously replicable.
Doge's Law: If cryptocurrency is open source and it is successful then it will be memed.
I think SCs will be cloned to death. There will be no incentive for a whale to corner an SC that he cannot build and market himself.
I think SCs will be cloned to death. There will be no incentive for a whale to corner an SC that he cannot build and market himself.
I consider another flaw in your argument to be your casual dismissal of the force of arbitrage.
IF the whale has indeed identified a SC with a true innovation, he's in good shape jumping in first. as everyone starts following, including miners willing to primarily mine the SC for its sidecoin and scBTC, Bitcoin MC could become MM'd and thus weaker from a security standpoint. if that happens, the BTC price could be expected to drop below the scBTC price as the situation has now flipped from what it was prior to the SC takeover. that's where the stragglers could get caught on the MC as 51% attacks could be levied to block SPV proof formation.
This is the economic speculation forum after all. I don't even need "a hypothetical" SC whale jumping in to see the above come to be. The scenario above is exactly what will come to play and how Blockstream’s cronies make a killing. Blockstream may have access to a mining operation or could pre buy mining contract to execute the above plan by paying above market rates for mining contracts prior to releasing there reward scheme for there SC. If they could get hold of a note worthy amount of mining contracts (keep in mind at today's exchange at least 50% of it will likely be defunct in 2 years due to halving) with a SC with a 1:1 peg could could do this by:
1. Offsetting the mining rewards with Bitcoins diminishing reward at the protocol level .
2. MM SC
3. Exchanging MM SC for BTC.
4. Short BTC for USD and buying SC with USD.
5. Create an arbitrage opportunity for BTC holders and proponents who supply more BTC to short.
6. Rinse and repeat.
This thread is awesome now.... I love FUD based in misunderstandings. It is way cooler than global economics and the interplay between gold and bitcoin. 
I liked it a few weeks back. Zero hedge thinking and hard hitting observations. Now, it's the SC thread (but never too old to learn).
you know, it just occurred to me that when Austin Hill goes around to all the mining pools and mines and tries to convince them to MM all his SC's, he's introducing a market distortion.
in other words, he's attempting to get something for nothing.
You've distilled my concern quite concisely. Thinking through the MM scenario if the SC gains any momentum and can sustain a higher reward when Bitcoins reward diminish at halving Austin Hill will have succeeded, HeliKopterBen scenario is quite interesting but does not give enough consideration to Bitcoins halving in just 2 years. That excess mining will be chasing the SC tx and rewards, and Bitcoins MC status diminishes as the Bitcoin reward is insignificant in comparison to mining the SC - the up side for a while is miners mine SC coins and convert scBTC to BTC, (do the same work earn more BTC.) Miners will abandon BTC mining as reward drops and focus on the SC. in other words, he's attempting to get something for nothing.
time for bed.
there are a lot of speculators that can be sold an innovation that really isn't one. such as demurrage coin everyone keeps talking about. you might not think it's a good innovation but if all of a sudden you start seeing large #'s of scBTC appearing on its SC along with a rising price, you yourself said those would be indications of a succeeding SC. that would be all it takes for some other speculators to pile on.
and in this case, where an innovation is marginal if not a bad idea, the original pumping whale might just do a pump and dump.
and in this case, where an innovation is marginal if not a bad idea, the original pumping whale might just do a pump and dump.
lots of speculators != market majority
that's another flaw in your argument.
the market and liquidity will decide what is right for itself, but at this point speculators will never drive it to champion a coin that is flawed, whichever way.
sigh, i didn't say that in this case of a marginal innovation that all BTC holders would switch to scBTC. in that case, the SC wouldn't take over. i simply said that a whale could still do a pump and dump to try and drive the price of scBTC upwards. his profit would probably have to come at some risk of buying scBTC on the open mkt prior to his pump or even during his pump to assist the ramp. and this could still drive confusion amongst other BTC speculators who might decide to pile onto the SC causing increasing volatility for the MC in terms of price.
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the only thing that can disrupt Bitcoin and effectively eliminate it, at this point, is a more important innovation. one that would improve on Bitcoin the way Bitcoin improves on gold. if this happen I will welcome it with open arms and speculators that will have spawned this movement will deserve all of their reward.
well at least we're starting to agree on some things in that you now see it is possible for this migration and switch to a SC can happen. that's progress.
but my real point is that instead of forcing all of us to jump to a new SC every time a new innovative SC is spawned, creating headache and risk for us, why don't the core devs buckle down and work harder to introduce new innovations into Bitcoin itself as it currently stands instead of creating this whole new risky sub-structure called SC's that attach risk and volatility to the main chain?
or is it heresy to say that "devs should not dev" unnecessarily when it comes to Bitcoin?
why are you arguing against a conclusion that paper itself talked about, that being a migration to a new SC?
arguing? where did you read me arguing there?
I have provided what is, in my opinion, the only context by which this migration could happen & effectively damage BTC.
there are a lot of speculators that can be sold an innovation that really isn't one. such as demurrage coin everyone keeps talking about. you might not think it's a good innovation but if all of a sudden you start seeing large #'s of scBTC appearing on its SC along with a rising price, you yourself said those would be indications of a succeeding SC. that would be all it takes for some other speculators to pile on.
and in this case, where an innovation is marginal if not a bad idea, the original pumping whale might just do a pump and dump.
and in this case, where an innovation is marginal if not a bad idea, the original pumping whale might just do a pump and dump.
lots of speculators != market majority
that's another flaw in your argument.
the market and liquidity will decide what is right for itself, but at this point speculators will never drive it to champion a coin that is flawed, whichever way.
the only thing that can disrupt Bitcoin and effectively eliminate it, at this point, is a more important innovation. one that would improve on Bitcoin the way Bitcoin improves on gold. if this happen I will welcome it with open arms and speculators that will have spawned this movement will deserve all of their reward.
(with sufficient confidence to justify the inconvenience you describe)
this is what it comes down to if you ask me.
if the innovation and the backing of this new sidecoin is so important the value proposition outweight ALL of the risks involved with such a migration than what the hell let's do it. but remember cypherdoc, you have said it yourself, there are numerous and considerable risks and friction in such a movement
why are you arguing against a conclusion that paper itself talked about, that being a migration to a new SC?
I consider another flaw in your argument to be your casual dismissal of the force of arbitrage.
IF the whale has indeed identified a SC with a true innovation, he's in good shape jumping in first. as everyone starts following, including miners willing to primarily mine the SC for its sidecoin and scBTC, Bitcoin MC could become MM'd and thus weaker from a security standpoint. if that happens, the BTC price could be expected to drop below the scBTC price as the situation has now flipped from what it was prior to the SC takeover. that's where the stragglers could get caught on the MC as 51% attacks could be levied to block SPV proof formation.
well then, here's a thought argument.
let's say those 2 factors balance each other out exactly, ie, half of BTC holders convert BTC to scBTC while the other half stay put and half the miners currently mining BTC switch to primarily mining scBTC. in that case, then i say the Bitcoin MC still loses. which is really the risk i'm trying to identify, that being any damage a SC might inflict on Bitcoin MC. it loses b/c the SC has succeeded in weakening Bitcoin's security by 50% subjecting it to possible 51% attacks and volatility (which will happen if any weakness in Bitcoin itself is detected by the market). as volatility picks up, the price will drop.
let's say those 2 factors balance each other out exactly, ie, half of BTC holders convert BTC to scBTC while the other half stay put and half the miners currently mining BTC switch to primarily mining scBTC. in that case, then i say the Bitcoin MC still loses. which is really the risk i'm trying to identify, that being any damage a SC might inflict on Bitcoin MC. it loses b/c the SC has succeeded in weakening Bitcoin's security by 50% subjecting it to possible 51% attacks and volatility (which will happen if any weakness in Bitcoin itself is detected by the market). as volatility picks up, the price will drop.
not true.
using your base case. you have now essentially created two liquidity market. a transparent ann a private one. these are the only two markets that can work in synergy. both could thrive without effectively damaging the other. as long as people find value in transparence and in privacy and there will be a market for both such market.
I actually believe this is something that could very plausibly happen.
there are a lot of speculators that can be sold an innovation that really isn't one. such as demurrage coin everyone keeps talking about. you might not think it's a good innovation but if all of a sudden you start seeing large #'s of scBTC appearing on its SC along with a rising price, you yourself said those would be indications of a succeeding SC. that would be all it takes for some other speculators to pile on.
and in this case, where an innovation is marginal if not a bad idea, the original pumping whale might just do a pump and dump.
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