Why? I just don't understand why! - page 2.

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Quote from: franky1 on July 18, 2014, 08:41:11 AM

kashish948 you say better features... but which features?

i have only seen you mention 1. syncing.

so, tell me what actual FEATURES do you want to see in bitcoin-core.. name me 5 FEATURES

I'd like to know this too. A lot of the features devs or bagholders of alts proclaim as defining features aren't that great or revolutionary at all.

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Bitcoin is way too big to risk adding non-critical features at this point. There are literally billions at stake. Trying to push something through the political minefield that is Bitcoin development would be virtually impossible at this point.

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kashish948 you say better features... but which features?

i have only seen you mention 1. syncing.

you do realise that the crap coins seem faster to sync, not because the alt has better features but because of these 2 reasons
1. crap coin(altcoins) blocks are smaller because they are used less, with less transactions per block
2. crap coin(altcoins) dont have 5 years of large data to send.

analogy
if i write a novel, and you wrote a leaflet ofcourse its going to take longer for people to read a novel.. but atleast the novel tells a better story and people want that. not some crap that gets thrown away..

so, tell me what actual FEATURES do you want to see in bitcoin-core.. name me 5 FEATURES

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If there wasn't so many new coins being developed everyday maybe they will be noticed more. Now you have anyhting from titcoin to imashitcoin to pick from.

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Quote from: 1Referee on July 18, 2014, 07:56:47 AM

Why would you want that? Bitcoin is fine as it is, no need to include new features or change anything.

It's not the fastest coin around, by far not, but it's doing what we want.

exactly once. bitcoin is perfect with the situation now. There is no need to be changed.
keep him stable it is enough.

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Quote from: kashish948 on July 18, 2014, 06:29:33 AM

Why does bitcoin not include the new features from altcoins? There are like tons of new features even if you leave out anon that will increase BTC's use and value. So why not include them in Bitcoin Core? BTC is trailing behind others in terms of features, the only (HUGE) advantage is thats its the first accepted by a huge number of merchants.

The best thing about altcoin features is that bitcoin doesnt need to include them right away; isnt it smarter to wait a certain amount of time to see if there are any flaws to those features?
If you think that bitcoin is going to remain the same, i assure you it wont, but it wont add any feature without carefully and slowly integrating them also.
Patience is a virtue, so just remain calm, and let time show are the features valuable enough to risk 8 billion dollar market cap. to some flaw.

cheers

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Can you give an example of a feature that has been proven by an altcoin that has not been included in Bitcoin?

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If anything good (rather, beneficial) comes along then Bitcoin will simply absorb it.

Till then...

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Why would you want that? Bitcoin is fine as it is, no need to include new features or change anything.

It's not the fastest coin around, by far not, but it's doing what we want.

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Quote from: Justin00 on July 18, 2014, 07:39:34 AM

It would be incredibly hard to introduce a new feature. Depending on the feature you might need EVERYONE to adopt it.
with alt coins their is usually only 1 client so you don't really have to much of a choice, right ?

i would rather the devs fix up existing features and problems. Now I understand the purpose of the blockchain but jeeeez I would hate to have to download it again. I am even to scared to see how big it is now. It must be growing at a huge rate.... and yeah yeah I can use a light client, but their is a fundamental issue if 99% of people have to do that.

One of the best things they did was what ever it was to speed up the time it takes to sync... I think what ever it was... was introduced in the version
after/around 0.6.3. I'm still loving it heh. The new stuff they put into 0.9 seems knda silly but maybe I just don't understand the purpose.

Hmmmmm I should really branch out and see what some of the other clients besides Bitcoin-QT have to offer.

If everyone can adopt from 0.6s to 0.9s why not include the new features in the next update? and yes they should get the syncing faster!

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It would be incredibly hard to introduce a new feature. Depending on the feature you might need EVERYONE to adopt it.
with alt coins their is usually only 1 client so you don't really have to much of a choice, right ?

i would rather the devs fix up existing features and problems. Now I understand the purpose of the blockchain but jeeeez I would hate to have to download it again. I am even to scared to see how big it is now. It must be growing at a huge rate.... and yeah yeah I can use a light client, but their is a fundamental issue if 99% of people have to do that.

One of the best things they did was what ever it was to speed up the time it takes to sync... I think what ever it was... was introduced in the version
after/around 0.6.3. I'm still loving it heh. The new stuff they put into 0.9 seems knda silly but maybe I just don't understand the purpose.

Hmmmmm I should really branch out and see what some of the other clients besides Bitcoin-QT have to offer.

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Quote from: kashish948 on July 18, 2014, 06:29:33 AM

Why does bitcoin not include the new features from altcoins? There are like tons of new features even if you leave out anon that will increase BTC's use and value. So why not include them in Bitcoin Core? BTC is trailing behind others in terms of features, the only (HUGE) advantage is thats its the first accepted by a huge number of merchants.

As God once said "If it ain't broke dun't fix it!"

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Quote from: Light on July 18, 2014, 06:35:05 AM

Quote from: kashish948 on July 18, 2014, 06:29:33 AM

Why does bitcoin not include the new features from altcoins? There are like tons of new features even if you leave out anon that will increase BTC's use and value. So why not include them in Bitcoin Core? BTC is trailing behind others in terms of features, the only (HUGE) advantage is thats its the first accepted by a huge number of merchants.

Well, simply that they aren't deemed of enough importance to actually merit discussion by the developers. I doubt that they aren't aware of what altcoins offer, but instead they do not consider it useful enough to have to ask for a consensus from the miners and nodes in order to prevent problems associated with forking. The first and foremost purpose of BTC is to act as a decentralized currency that can be used as a semi-anonymous means of conducting transactions in a (mostly) irreversible manner. Any other concern is really just secondary.

Agreed the basic purpose is acting as a decentralized irreversible currency but what is the the problem of including beeter features without compromising the basic purpose? Why will it not have consesus? It won't harm BTC in any way, will it?

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Quote from: kashish948 on July 18, 2014, 06:29:33 AM

Why does bitcoin not include the new features from altcoins? There are like tons of new features even if you leave out anon that will increase BTC's use and value. So why not include them in Bitcoin Core? BTC is trailing behind others in terms of features, the only (HUGE) advantage is thats its the first accepted by a huge number of merchants.

Well, simply that they aren't deemed of enough importance to actually merit discussion by the developers. I doubt that they aren't aware of what altcoins offer, but instead they do not consider it useful enough to have to ask for a consensus from the miners and nodes in order to prevent problems associated with forking. The first and foremost purpose of BTC is to act as a decentralized currency that can be used as a semi-anonymous means of conducting transactions in a (mostly) irreversible manner. Any other concern is really just secondary.

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Why does bitcoin not include the new features from altcoins? There are like tons of new features even if you leave out anon that will increase BTC's use and value. So why not include them in Bitcoin Core? BTC is trailing behind others in terms of features, the only (HUGE) advantage is thats its the first accepted by a huge number of merchants.

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