Topic: Why isn't bitcointalk.org neutral? (Read 2602 times)

XT and Core aren't altcoins like DOGE and LTC, however they still fall under the same definition. XT and Unlimited use different rules to Core which would eventually make one incompatible with the other, therefore they are alternate versions that couldn't work together - alt coins.

While Satoshi did make Bitcointalk, that isn't the case currently. theymos is currently the main admin, and since it is a private forum, the version of Bitcoin that he wants to promote will be promoted. Any versions that he doesn't want to promote, he won't.

Simple: Any coin or chain that is not Bitcoin. That said, your question is off-topic.

I have to agree with this, and this is one of the primary reasons for which such "implementations" shouldn't be promoted. AFAIK Bitcoin.com has BU as their "featured wallet", so they shouldn't be complaining that BTCT primarily has Core (hypocrisy?).

Good catch, time to ping theymos!

Satoshi did create bitcointalk. However, since his view on the blocksize debate is not known, we do not know which version of Bitcoin he will support.

Source: https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html

PS - Maybe it is time to include Cyrus on that page. 

Bitcoin has never intentionally hardforked for a manner you describe.
If a hardfork is performed in the future, it will need preferably over 95% support.
A hardfork with a lower support threshold is a malicious hardfork.

Hardforks with two surviving chains are not a type of voting mechanism.
What you are describing is called a failure of consensus.

You are basically advocating a divide & conquer mentality, cloaked as democracy.

Didn't the creator of Bitcointalk create Bitcoin. Then yeah, it makes sense for them to promote the latest version of Bitcoin, since they are promoting their own work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gfntBEI3Aw

Can you tell me what is altcoins , please give me brief explanation about it and how we use it?

Thanks for the informative reply. I wasn't aware that other Bitcoins were altcoins. Call me an idiot if you will, but would you be so kind as to point out here - https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/ - which coins are Bitcoin altcoins so that I can see their respective exchange rates? I'm sure they're listed because they have the venerable RateCoin listed, but I being the idiot that I am have failed miserably in finding just one Bitcoin altcoin, let alone the rest of them.

Thank you in advance.

~ BitcoinTalk's Number One Idiot

exactly, Core is doing softforks only, but by doing so, they are the ones who make the change.

In a hardfork, you are least allow the nodes to vote.

A hardfork is better for the freedom and decentralization because it allows people to choice which fork to support.

A softfork does not allow that choice.

And yet, Core has made people believe a hard fork is evil and a soft fork is the way to go.


Being the biggest forum they have a responsibility to stay as neutral as possible to keep bitcoin decentralized. And the only way to keep it decentralized is by having the discussion be neutral.

Hmmm, nice definition. I will rephrase:

1. Private forum without any rules
2. Person who does not wish to be publicly know, but he is
3. Person who controls bitcoin community is the same as in point 2.
4. Same person tried everything to discredit mentioned projects and to harm them.
5. Community is very centralized
6. Bitcoin community is very centralized, especially after cases like bitcoin classic.
7. Oh yes, this forum would like to centralize bitcoin, community should help.
8. Outside of dev threads on this forum, it is junk

No, humans have wishes and goals. Having point of view would mean they would share theirs and listen to other humans. This is not happening. I guess, greedy humans without any moral would be more appropriate.

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Michael M.
Thanks for the spell checker on this forum, took you long to implement it

This forum is owned by humans. Humans have points of view. Sticking to Core is their point of view. Nothing's neutral.

Bitcoin is bitcoin because of the blockchain, if an alternate implementation continues the same blockchain, it is Bitcoin

Don't forget, every soft fork changes the consensus rules. For instance we could soft fork to make the max block size 500kb. We can soft fork, to make it impossible for un upgraded nodes to validate transactions but have them still think they are valid.

Better this than vers forum pumping etherium and casinos. But I'm still with core and await segwit and lightening.

Because Bitcoin Talk is for  altcoins.

I'm not sure if you are serious but just so that newbies have better information, if I can use software to spend and receive bitcoins then the software, at a high level, is Bitcoin. Classic, unlimited, and XT are Bitcoin forks and become "Bitcoin" if enough people believe them to be. They fork not only the codebase but would also fork the Bitcoin blockchain. Even if one of the forks dies, including the old fork we are all currently using, the bitcoins you held before the fork would continue to function as bitcoins albiet with some changes due to the different code of the new fork. So far in Bitcoin history this has already happened twice and it continues to be the case that the current newest fork is the one we all call "Bitcoin". The only difference is that those two prior forks were non-contentious and the old forks died out quickly.

On the other hand, if someone forks the Bitcoin codebase and starts it over with a new blockchain then I cannot spend and receive bitcoins using it. It is thus an altcoin.

So let us please maintain some credibility among ourselves and just admit that the reason that Classic, XT, and others aren't allowed is because the administrator of this forum, theymos, believes that Bitcoin should not be forked at the current time at least in such a way as the authors of Classic and XT have proposed and he has chosen to have the forum reflect that belief.

Ah it's theymos' alt cobra to the rescue. 

Given you have been censoring discussion on any alternative clients who knows what most active bitcoin users are aware of. It is just electronic cash to most people. Still you have singlehandedly contributed to the decline of market share bitcoin holds within the ecosystem. Oh and lost any vestiges of credibility you ever held in the cryptocurrency space :-)

It's strange that you think most active Bitcoin users aren't aware of projects like Classic, XT, etc. Everyone has heard of them, and the block size issue has been argued to death, and yet most users continue to support Core's road map for scalability. Users have made their choice already.

This was beaten to death back in the early days of Classic. You should use the search function or look around this sub-forum (although it may take time to find this). Theymos has stated their reasoning, and they do not agree with those 'implementations'.

Shift towards what exactly, an implementation that has even a much smaller team and even less peer review like Classic? IIRC theymos labeled it as an altcoin back in the day.

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BU may be different. Last time I checked they didn't have a faulty fork proposal implemented(?).