as the increasing taxes on transaction and deferred confirmation time is unquestionably a genuine concern. The Bitcoin Cash pump and Coinbase insider exchanging is at most a backhanded assault, pump is a piece of the unregulated free crypto advertise, expected, yet it was a deceptive conduct from a noteworthy trade, yet calling everything an assault is simply nonsensical. At this moment the [Suspicious link removed]ange has a noteworthy issue and it may deteriorate until the point that LN is actualized. For now I think the main arrangement is to build Segwit appropriation by utilizing Segwit upheld benefits.
People knew that BCH was going to be added to coinbase. You had some news that they built their system to enable easy integration of new coins. Roger Ver confirmed in the comment of his livestream that it was going to be added this year there. Some people saw indicators because they saw in coinabse API that there's BCH. Ofc there was some obvious pump before it was added, last time the litecoin was added price of LTC pumped as well, but it was kinda different. Coinbase said they were going to investigate in this pump before they said about BCH, but let's be honest they don't care much they earn from people trading thats all. They've done their job by sending emails to users to invest rationally because cryptos are risk investment so if something goes downhill they got that covered. They are business like many other and are doing their job, to accumulate more wealth.
LN is currently being tested on testnet, so if you want to check it out you can with testent + you can get "free" coins to play with on there. Thing is that LN will allow us is fast payments like instant which is more suitable for businesses in my opinion. If you wanted to buy something at grocery store you want to pay for items and go home. With blocks having like 10mins time before transaction gets confirmed, if we say network is free - there are no to many transactions in mempool, it's unacceptable for stores to accept it as means of payment because if they accept not confirmed transactions you could double spend. Other way around is to wait for at least 1 confirmation. LN will not only give power to miners. There are benefits and downsides to LN ofc, sadly it will still take sometime until we see massive use of LN on main bitcoin network because if you are dealing with money you need to make sure that everything works as planned, you don't want to make people angry.
Most people here and reddit will defend bitcoin no matter what instead of looking at the problems. Every time someone comments something about the speed or transaction fees they will just yell ''FUD'' or ''Another attack on bitcoin'' but it's not always that. I have been a strong supporter of bitcoin myself but we have to face it, it's not in a good position right now, sure the price is great but what else? Insane fees that are not getting solved any time soon? I know the demand is high but the ones that are buying are just buying to sell eventually not to support bitcoin, not to use it. The demand will eventually fade away and what do we have left? An outdated bitcoin that won't be able to compete with better coins.
Same thing why roger ver turned to bitcoin cash. I think segwit2x not pushing through last november was a big blow to btc since it could've negated some issues btc transactions are having right now. Though it's still bitcoin for me. I don't know, first love never die as they say
Thing I don't like BCH for is that people there mostly sold their BTC and just want to lure all of us there, at least my perception of how things work. If they lure enough people they get rich. There are a lot of alternatives BTC and BCH are not the only one. We are just spreading hate insted to sit down and think about how we can make it better. I mean if any of this goes global, like mass adoption most of alts, if not all will have to scale eventualy on one way or other.
I don't really like Roger much, I think he is really great person tho, but every time he talks he is negative to BTC , to other BTC forks and even alts and talks like BCH is real thing. It is expected since most of his holdings are in BCH but the way that he present it is killing me. Don't get me wrong I don't hate BCH have my holdings there as well as in bitcoin and some other alts. Problem is that when you say Bitcoin to people they have prob heard of it, but if you say Litecoin or Ethereum not many will know what is that.