Nick Szabo's Remarks about Bitcoin XT - page 3.

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Quote from: Westin Landon Cox on September 13, 2015, 10:38:35 AM

..............

Westin. Landon. Cox.

Is Landon Cox a new age version of Bart Simpson calling Moe's bar and asking for Ben Dover?

Troll account?

Huh

Quote from: Carlton Banks on September 14, 2015, 05:23:28 PM

if you listen to what Szabo says, you'll realise you are not correct to characterise him as a small blocker.

That's a good point.

His name is "Landon Cox". Its possible he's just trolling.

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Quote from: coinpr0n on September 13, 2015, 11:04:43 AM

Quote from: oblivi on September 13, 2015, 10:58:33 AM

It's nice to see Nick Szabo becoming more active, he was always super secretive. I think I have never heard his voice before this podcast. This man is nothing less of a genius, it makes me think he might as well be Satoshi in the way he addresses stuff. I guess he isn't attending the scaling bitcoin meeting if he did this tho, I had some small hopes of seeing a live debate with him and the rest of experts.

In general all the 'small blockers' are now finally starting to be more active and vocal about the block size debate. For a while there was only promotion by the 'large blockers'. Looks like the other side is getting finally getting their media game up.

That's just not right.

Everyone wants it to go up, so there is no 'big' vs 'small'

How. That's the question. How do we raise the block limit. That's what the debate is about, and if you listen to what Szabo says, you'll realise you are not correct to characterise him as a small blocker.

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Quote from: cryptonaut420 on September 14, 2015, 05:10:09 PM

If you look on the letstalkbitcoin.com episode page there is almost 9,000 views already.

Proving most bitcoin afictionados are illiterates who read headlines but never look at the fine print?

Huh

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Quote from: Hydrogen on September 14, 2015, 05:05:07 PM

Quote from: Westin Landon Cox on September 13, 2015, 10:38:35 AM

Nick Szabo was interviewed for Let's Talk Bitcoin Ep. 246 (released yesterday). At the end they discussed the block size debate and the Bitcoin XT fork. Here's a short video with excerpts where he talked about the Bitcoin XT fork:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_pPkIbGw4

Youtube clip only has 39 views?!

I guess only 39 people use bitcoin these days. Cheesy

If you look on the letstalkbitcoin.com episode page there is almost 9,000 views already.

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Quote from: Westin Landon Cox on September 13, 2015, 10:38:35 AM

Nick Szabo was interviewed for Let's Talk Bitcoin Ep. 246 (released yesterday). At the end they discussed the block size debate and the Bitcoin XT fork. Here's a short video with excerpts where he talked about the Bitcoin XT fork:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_pPkIbGw4

Youtube clip only has 39 views?!

I guess only 39 people use bitcoin these days. Cheesy

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Move On !!!!!!

Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on September 13, 2015, 12:41:52 PM

wow, the first Satoshi Audio Podcast Cheesy

just imagine he would make a mistake in this podcast and reveal himself with that Cheesy

Damn man, you really believe in this, don't you? Cheesy

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In Satoshi I Trust

wow, the first Satoshi Audio Podcast Cheesy

just imagine he would make a mistake in this podcast and reveal himself with that Cheesy

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Move On !!!!!!

Great to hear an opinion of one of the best cryptographers out there. It is essentialy the same opinion as all of as that are against the Bitcoin XT (not against bigger blocks tbough).

I am also glad that I hear another confirmation that we are just not all crazy but that we are very much right.

It's good to see that this XT craziness is calming down a bit. This was a very dangerous potential precedent.

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Quote from: oblivi on September 13, 2015, 10:58:33 AM

It's nice to see Nick Szabo becoming more active, he was always super secretive. I think I have never heard his voice before this podcast. This man is nothing less of a genius, it makes me think he might as well be Satoshi in the way he addresses stuff. I guess he isn't attending the scaling bitcoin meeting if he did this tho, I had some small hopes of seeing a live debate with him and the rest of experts.

In general all the 'small blockers' are now finally starting to be more active and vocal about the block size debate. For a while there was only promotion by the 'large blockers'. Looks like the other side is getting finally getting their media game up.

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Get your filthy fiat off me you damn dirty state.

Well, I expect the interview was recorded at least some days ago, if not longer, so Szabo could be at the workshop. I also have a high opinion of Szabo and I'm glad he's speaking out more. Plus since he's come out against XT there are a lot of people willing to swear that he's definitely not Satoshi, in case he ever needs it. Wink

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It's nice to see Nick Szabo becoming more active, he was always super secretive. I think I have never heard his voice before this podcast. This man is nothing less of a genius, it makes me think he might as well be Satoshi in the way he addresses stuff. I guess he isn't attending the scaling bitcoin meeting if he did this tho, I had some small hopes of seeing a live debate with him and the rest of experts.

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Get your filthy fiat off me you damn dirty state.

Nick Szabo was interviewed for Let's Talk Bitcoin Ep. 246 (released yesterday). At the end they discussed the block size debate and the Bitcoin XT fork. Here's a short video with excerpts where he talked about the Bitcoin XT fork:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_pPkIbGw4

Here are two quotes:

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Doing a contentious hard fork is not healthy. It's basically a 51% attack being justified through argument.

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I'm just guessing to say that 75% is a large enough number that that forces the rest of the network comply. But if they don't...if you have an ongoing... This is essentially a civil war. It is technologically equivalent to a 51% attack what Hearn and Andresen are doing. And so you essentially have a civil war situation. It will certainly exercise all of Bitcoin's security features...let's put it that way...as any war would.

The full episode is available here:

https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-246-smart-contracts-with-nick-szabo

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