Topic: is bitcoin being intentionally destroyed via divide and conquer tactics? (Read 1331 times)

Who says cloud mining is not profitable? if you invest a million in a legit cloud mining company you could profit a lot if the admins/owners stop stealing money from their clients, yes those legit services are stealing and I don't want to talk about that here.
I think increasing block size 250KB for time being would suffice to keep the fees down and whenever we have to pay a fee higher than $1 for a 225bytes  transaction and no one does anything to lower the fees is intentionally hurting the network.
I don't know where that 8MB blocks came from but for now 250KB is enough.

And now you have to ask: How come those "entrusted" with Bitcoin stewardship:

    Are blind to Bitcoins killer app (sound money)
    Act to destroy its killer app (centrally planned block size cap)
    Seek no accomodation with the community to preserve and grow Bitcoins killer App (BS-core refusal to budge even the tiniest bit no matter what)

And when you ask the question how any rational person would long since have sought to remedy the ills that afflict Bitcoin today, you can only conclude that:

    They are not rational at all, not a single one of them
    Or that they are rational (at least some of them)

And when you conclude that option #2 (they are rational) is true, you have to ask: What rational is there to destroy bitcoin, and why would they go along with it?

And when you ask this question, you have to conclude:

    Something does not like Bitcoin and wants to destroy it
    Those stewards of Bitcoin acting rationally to destroy it have been corrupted by something offering them greater benefit than keeping bitcoin alive.

And when you have to conclude the above two things, you have to conclude that:

    Bitcoin is being attacked from the outside
    By corrupting people inside Bitcoin to destroy it

And when you arrive at that conclusion, you know Bitcoin is fucked if it gives up (because then it will lose this fight). But you will also realize that if Bitcoin fails, any other cryptocurrency is also fucked, because then it can just be threatened with "being bitcoined" and submit to any demands or be destroyed.

And that's why everybody (including all the Ethereum-tards) should take a stand around Bitcoin, and see it succeed. Because if they don't, the ensure their own downfall.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner.

This is exactly what is happening.

Is gold mainstream (in terms of used as a currency?)
Does the fact that it isn't, make it a bad investment? (and with bitcoin, all things equal, the marketcap is so small that it's the same as getting in the gold rush at the beginning).
Is bitcoin insanely more convenient to use to move wealth in big distances than gold?

Please think.

Then what's the fucking point of all this?  To just sit here and be cryptonerds?
How is Bitcoin going to be a great investment, or make the world a better place if its not going mainstream?  

Bitcoin can never be a mainstream currency unless you want maximum regulations to be applied to it. Do we really want that?

If we don't, then we admit we are pirates, and we will need the network to be decentralized, which means that the nodes must be accessible for the average joe, which means if the blocksize is too big we are fucked.

Most Bitcoiners accept the fact that Bitcoin is a threat       
to the 'banksters', the authoritarians, the statists, the     
old establishment, traditional money transfer companies,       
and it has many enemies, so it is not a huge leap of                 
the imagination to think some powerful group may           
be trying to bring down Bitcoin.                                     

Regardless of whether you support Core, or you support BU,
right now there is a situation where neither segwit or BU
is getting enough mining votes.

If this powerful (and well funded) outside group wanted to keep
us fighting with each other to cripple bitcoin, all they
would have to do is throw a little bit of money at some
cloud mining to ensure one side doesn't get too strong.
They'll keep us in a stalemate on purpose.

Even worse, they can continually re-invest the rewards
they make from mining, back into more mining.  They
will not make a profit, as cloud mining is rarely profitable,
but they can get close to a 100% ROI (break even).

So it almost costs nothing except tying up a few million
bucks for a little while.

If this is indeed what is happening,
we will never scale using the current approach.

The only way is if all the big players just meet and
have an agreement, like "we're activating segwit now"
or "we're going to 8mb now".

The leading corporats of bitcoin might have tried the divide and conquer tactics to have a control on the network. But already bitcoin have overcome several such tactics. One of which is the statement revealed by the top management core developer who got out of bitcoin describing it an failed experiment and moved towards R3.