I've never been a supporter of any of the blocksize solutions, at least not until recently, but BU has always been a sort of bad apple in the bunch of solutions that have been proposed, in my opinion. Over the past two weeks, they managed to shatter and kind of slight support I had for them, and this is just the cherry on top it seems.
Segwit or that one other alternative (I believe it was called ULA or something, based on the Segwit concept) seem to be the only viable options now. I have no problem saying that BU is a pile of BS.
Topic: So do you still support BU? - page 3. (Read 2048 times)
I never supported BU, I consider emergent consensus mechanism which is part of BU as too risky solution which can create other unforeseen problems in the future.
But this argument that ASICBoost is root of all evil (money, duh) is starting to be a bit overplayed IMO.
AFAIK AsicBoost was never used and it it will be clear who are using this tech if activated.
Bitmain's statment: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/regarding-recent-allegations-smear-campaigns/
But this argument that ASICBoost is root of all evil (money, duh) is starting to be a bit overplayed IMO.
AFAIK AsicBoost was never used and it it will be clear who are using this tech if activated.
Bitmain's statment: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/regarding-recent-allegations-smear-campaigns/
This proves again that the real motive is always money. The pools started supporting BU because they hoped to gain more cash from it. They didn't do it to support the network or to make it easier for everyone to use Bitcoin, and as Roger Ver proved by not taking the bet, they don't believe in what they're preaching. It's just a means to get richer.
Of course, what did you expect? Miners don't give a fuck about bitcoin other than milking it for more fiat money lol. Also miners don't want a bigger block size in any shape or form, this is all a way to keep bitcoin as it is for as long as possible, they don't care about BU or about segwit or about anything that drives fees down for obvious reasons. Sure there are some that actually care and want to take bitcoin to the next level with segwit + LN but most (chinese) don't care.
This proves again that the real motive is always money. The pools started supporting BU because they hoped to gain more cash from it. They didn't do it to support the network or to make it easier for everyone to use Bitcoin, and as Roger Ver proved by not taking the bet, they don't believe in what they're preaching. It's just a means to get richer.
After the Bitmain's ASICBOOST exploit that Jihan Wu used to get an additional 30% (more or less) efficiency for his mining hardware, and the real reason behind Bitmain's attempts to block implementing SegWit has been exposed, do you still support BU after all? If so, why?
Jihan Wu is cancer for the bitcoin ecosystem itself. But I don't support the Bitcoin Unlimited, Are you forgetting about the important thing if the key about the scalability solution is on the block voters? Did you realized it? The consensus is like a big wall between the communities and miners.I'm not a BU fan but I can't do anything to change the result into the SegWit to be a winner in the future.
After the Bitmain's ASICBOOST exploit that Jihan Wu used to get an additional 30% (more or less) efficiency for his mining hardware, and the real reason behind Bitmain's attempts to block implementing SegWit has been exposed, do you still support BU after all? If so, why?
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