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Hard fork has a bad stigma because to date it implies "emergency!", but Monero is changing that. These are planned rolling hard forks. Every 6 months there will be code freeze where the new changes could be implemented 7 months after that.

Example timeline(paraphrased from Fluffypony's example in the Monero Missive):

I like this practice. It's proactive, the community knows about it, there is consensus, the fork does not happen until there are enough nodes mining on the new version. It keeps development resilient and allows improvements/changes/features to easily be incorporated without the *panic* and fighting that we see in other crypto.

Look how difficult it is for Bitcoin to change when it needs to.

I miss the part where decentralized means "no changes, ever". If the community decides in the future that a hard fork is not wanted, they can indeed overpower the core team by not using the new version.

This podcast presents a good explanation of the reasoning behind the rolling hard forks:
https://getmonero.org/2016/06/20/monero-missive-for-the-week-of-2016-06-20.html

Bitcoin exists to preoccupy us nerds on a technology that can only become centralized (Bitcoin = ChinaCoin), while we might have otherwise actually have/had the capability of providing the world a viable technology currency option that could grow enough mass adoption to be large enough. But the we are in late innings already and the time and opportunity are slipping away.

Bitcoin exists to be sure that no nation nor entity can break away by offering a digital currency alternative. Bitcoin is a trap and trojan horse designed to be ideological with the promise of decentralization, but in reality that is an obfuscation and it is not.

Bitcoin exists so that all of us who are awake and want to change the system incriminate ourselves by mixing our ownership of tokens with tokens which have been used for money laundering and other illegal actions, with the entire history recorded publicly while the NSA saves all our IP address activity in their Utah data center, so that later all of us who were awake can be destroyed with clawbacks taking away our homes and every thing.

Bitcoin is very dangerous to be involved with. Ditto gold if there is any record you have it, and if there is no record then you won't be able to dispose of it later when it becomes illegal to dispose of gold without a paper trail. And of course when you do dispose of it correctly, you will (later) be taxed so highly that most of your gains will be wiped out.

Our brave new world. 666 and 1984 approaching. Enjoy.

No, "there will always be a better database available" is not true. We can mathematically prove that certain algorithms are optimal solutions to a given task. (E.g. quicksort for sorting items.) Once you have an optimal implementation of these algorithms, you're done, there will not be anything better. Most of the code in LMDB is optimal already - there are one or two suboptimal bits that we'll tweak in future releases, but aside from that, no, you can't do any better. I will bet you 1000 XMR that even 20 years from now, there will not be any other DB engine that even approaches LMDB's efficiency, reliability, simplicity, features, and footprint. No one else is going to find a better way of cramming all of what LMDB does into 64KB of portable code.

84 million ether outstanding.

72 million not locked in the DAO

1.5 million ether vote for fork after less than 24 hours of the poll being operational

Reporter writes that the whole of Ethereum is unanimous.

Why don't we just drop the pretences and acknowledge the truth. The pro fork movement is railroading the non fork people. They aren't interested in a majority or any rational discussion. Just in a rush to do whatever they want in their interest.

Have at it then manipulators, cheaters and liars. Enjoy your compromised unprincipled coin. Keep telling the lie that there is democracy and decentralization. Ethereum has become everything that decentralized tech was supposed to prevent. You're sell outs. You're dishonest. You break the rules you made. You lie. Code is not law, nor is anything else but the whim of those who intimidate and bully others.

cocaine is a hell of a drug.....

"You're 27 years old and you still don't have a girlfriend yet? Why don't you take those Bitcoins that you love so much and get yourself a male escort then you homo." - My Loving Mom

In a certain way, one could say that Monero has already replaced bitcoin in its original conception, namely as an anarchist currency.  Bitcoin has, unfortenately, become an half-institutionalized gambling/speculating tool with more and more demand for state justice, legal interference, and "mainstream regulation".   Most of the market cap of bitcoin is made of speculation as just another financial tool in the big toolbox of financial gamblers, and only a minuscule tiny fraction is devoted to the original goal of bitcoin, which was freedom from state, law and finance.  Monero still has most of that promise, as I don't think that its market cap is mainly driven by financial gamblers.  However, it is true that monero is, as far as I know, not (yet ?) used as a genuine currency, as bitcoin was at a certain point, on the dark net.

I'll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day.  I like having left over pizza to nibble on later.

I was going to tweet it, but then I found out that you have to show your boobs and that took me out of the running... SEXISTS!!!!

I can confirm that the loss from the hack stands at 119,756btc

These two seem affiliated.

STEEM and MONERO

What do u think can be done with these technologies ?

Blogging and tax evasion

1. U blog on steem, post ur tits

2. U earn STEEM and sell them for Monero

3. U enjoy tax evasion and buy some coke on the deep net market


This stuff is on another level.  Bitcoin cant keep up.


~CfA~

I agree. "Honestly unfair" LOL.

It is one of he most interesting not-quite-sure-if-this-is-a-scam coins ever.

Is it a scam if they basically tell you up front they are scamming you?

Tricky and interesting.

first quote in the thread
time is bitcoin time is altcoin
everyday every time hunting money via bitcoin and via altcoin
i like bitcoin i like altcoin incrase much money beuase bitcoin and altcoin
succes with bitcoin and altcoin

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BTC would not hard-fork if you mistakenly sent $100mill to the wrong address (The GOX funds).

ETH is hard-forking because they sent $100mil to the wrong address (The DAO address).

There is a big difference in the philosophies.

it's all about getting as much bitcoin as possible out of the gullible before the supply of gullible people stops. that's the killer app of any alt.

I called him out a while back a few times..
I said Butterin.. It's ON !
Meet me at the flag pole at 3:pm
I said.. prepare for a beating you can not prepare for !

..he never showed up  

Oh but hey.. what News ?
Did some new thing go down since the DAO fork business i missed ?