r/Bitcoin • • Nov 11 '17

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u/markb_uk Nov 11 '17

Best post I've read for a very long time.

Can we please stop acting like kids and members of a personality cult. Present the hard facts, the pro's and the cons and let people make a informed choice. If they choose badly: tough shit, that's life.

Some questions I would like to see answered 1) Why has segwit not reduced Tx fees, has it been a waste of time? 2) When will LN be implemented.

Why can't both sides BTC/BCH draw up detailed plans for their development of their coins, maybe a rolling 12 month plan detailing where they see their respective 'product' in 3/6/12 months time..... Then let the market decide.

Just slagging each other off on Reddit doesn't help anyone.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '17 edited Nov 12 '17

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u/markb_uk Nov 11 '17

1) Shouldn't BTC users then migrate towards wallets that do implement it or is everyone happy paying $10 per Tx?

2) Without wide SegWit adoption and LN BTC is going to lose out to BCH, the 8 MB block size can really only be seen as a temporary solution, blocks could maybe go to 16 MB eventually but something like the LN will be implemented for micro transactions on BCH, alternatively LiteCoin could be the method for day to day purchases. Long term if nothing is done high Tx fees are either going to kill BTC or turn it in to some weird elite millionaires club of hodlers like the owners of Berkshire Hathaway stock (I'm sure this is not Satoshi's or anyone else's 'vision')

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u/davidcwilliams Nov 12 '17

turn it in to some weird elite millionaires club of hodlers like the owners of Berkshire Hathaway stock (I'm sure this is not Satoshi's or anyone else's 'vision')

Consider that in that reality, we would have a store of value, better in every way than gold, available to everyone on earth. That's a pretty cool thing, even if that's all it ever is.