if someone releases an update to ix coin that invalidates any prior transactions , or uses op codes to make coins vanish, or allows any crazy stuff, like raising the 21,000,000 cap ==========
i might just release a fork that will keep the original chain alive,
not because i have a stake in anything financially, on concept of right and wrong alone
imagine the bitcoin developers updating the code to invalidate a few hundred thousand or million bitcoin that were mined early and have never moved ??
sorry -- not going renegade and my actions would not matter, whoever is spending the cash to mine ixc and the cash for the servers, and the cash for the bandwidth and has been paying the bills for years will probably mine on the new chain and the fork i release would sit stalled forever
No one should support invalidation of any prior ix transactions on the blockchain
That is no one who really is a supporter of ix in mind.
I imagine if someone wanted ix to go away and to divide the community it would be a great idea to bring up.
If you want to burn ix coins make an alt coin like the one bitcoin has called counterparty.
I would not object to that. From a code standpoint someone competent could pull it off in less than a week. And no dont even ask I won't do it. I don't see a need for it. I just think for the future / if iX even has one / the blockchain of iX shall remain intact.
Why does this keep coming up ? I will explain what I believe in a minute but first.....
Priorities for iX should not even be updates to the code imo No one even uses the update Ahmed did with Groundround and even I worked on few things and I was the one who released the windows versions. Hardly anyone is using those updates.
Earlier this year the F2 pool head admin released a critical fix which was a small error not caught by myself, Ahmed and others previously......
(here is the pull request from Wang Chun I merged )
https://github.com/vladroberto/IXCoin/commit/d9906b6c822719f91e3bcb69f50b501a2e3501be I updated and released new windows binaries but no one has ever used those!!!!!!!! why is another update a priority ? who will use it ?
Ix needs most
1) real world uses -- a purpose
2) exchanges to add it where people can trade ix for bitcoin or other coins and not have to worry about being robbed , (getting dropped from shapeshift was a heavy blow to ix imo but not fatal)
3) miners -- if just a few smaller btc pools added ix to merge mining it would eliminate this shadow that is over the ix blockchain now since no one knows who is mining it or how long they will continue
4) Finally try to remember --------- Ix has several advantages as it is over bitcoin. (I cannot name them all here)
One is that since hardly anyone sends iX coins there is room for a lot of transaction volume just built as it is now on the 9.x level with the 1 mb max blocks
(and if anyone mentions increasing the blocksize I will flame you)Another advantage ix has over bitcoin's development and current direction----- if anyone understands what zero confirmations are, why they are important to real world use for transactions you understand.... In my eyes this is a good reason for iX not to mirror bitcoin development. I actually agree with coinbase and the others who can accept zero confirms as a necessary evil if these systems are ever going to be used in the world in real time successfully.
May I recommend all of you take the time to listen to someone discuss smart contracts, bitcoin and many other concepts who in my eyes is probably one of the smartest people in the world about these ideas because he helped invent some of them. Why use bitcoin or ix at all
Nick Szabo had a discussion a few months ago on a podcast and he said something like..............why are you in bitcoin if what you want to accomplish can be done by traditional systems like paypal or visa......... he goes on to explain much more of this and his concepts..........
listen to it here
https://twitter.com/cinnamon_carter/status/684530399633129472It is on soundcloud.
To whoever expressed concern for my personal well being, thank you , this has been a difficult week for me and is not getting any better. I don't normally discuss personal matters and if i do details are light.
I am not seeking any financial or other assistance from anyone. Whatever personal problems I have are mine alone and have nothing to do wtih this but I appreciate those who sent me the love. Thank you very much.
FINALLY I am convinced that whoever continues to post to this or any thread or public forum about the ix premine is not a legit supporter of ix but an undercover snark and someone seeking to use disinformation tactics to divide the community. Someone from a rival coin bitcoin, next , ppc, litecoin, insert your coin here....... I rarely use the ignore button but will be hitting it for future supporters of recoding the second oldest cryptocurrency in history to invalidate some of the first transactions that ever took place on it's blockchain.