Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn want to sabotage Bitcoin on behalf of the US government.

[weev]

They're at it again. Bitcoin XT developers are releasing histrionic, emotionally charged blog posts declaring the failure of Bitcoin. These blog posts are promoted by their connections in the international media to try to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt around the status of Bitcoin and bully people into accepting their suicidal "solutions" to

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[anonymous]

Nice post. Now that XT has utterly failed, though, its supporters have changed tactics. Now they're pushing something called "Bitcoin Classic", which doesn't even have any specific technical changes defined yet, but is promising to decide all changes "democratically". Clearly, they don't care about the actual technology for now, and they just want to get control over Bitcoin. It's disgusting.

[weev]

I seriously think that something should be done about them. Like, whatever is necessary, however is necessary. How much damage do they have to do before the community ensures that they are no longer a problem, one way or another?

I'm a human below

[anonymous]

Supposedly Bitcoin classic already has a 72% majority. The main point is an increase of blocksize to 2mb.

Re: I'm a human below

[weev]

http://xtnodes.com/

Bitcin Classic has less nodes than XT and BU, both of which are also a fucking joke.

Welp

[anonymous]

It's a problem that's solving by itself: according to Hearn, Chinese miners are both on low-bandwidth internet and armed of continental-sized botnets, so every time they put up forks they'll probably get DOS'd by Chinese guys defending their interests.

just a rant

[anonymous]

Hello Weev,

I mostly agree with you, but I can't like this article.

You haven't even considered any of the criticisms of Bitcoin brought up by M.H., like the scalability issues and the Chinese miners' monopoly on price and Bitcoin popularity. You've just written a rant that doesn't bring anything new to table.

At a glance, altough some of it is F.U.D., I find myself agreeing with most of the points of M.H. (I still have to look into it myself, was hoping you'd do this ;) however his solution is flat-out wrong : letting the miners vote for protocol upgrades is ludicrous !

As I'm writing this, Bitcoin value is in total freefall - one must wonder if it's just the effect of some shitty post by M.H. or if there are larger forces at work (the Chinese governement perhaps ?).

Cheers,
Anon1.0

Re: just a rant

[weev]

Every Jewish media outlet in the world is printing "bitcoin is dead, bitcoin has failed" based on the lies of a guy who isn't even legitimately a Bitcoin developer and you're blaming the Chinese government? You're a fucking retard, brah.

[labrynthos]

Are you able to find paid work in your current location? Either under the table or under some kind of foreign-worker program? I guess if you were, you'd have done it by now. I hope a workable solution is found.

[weev]

the mean salary in this city is $160/month. there's also no chance for me to work here if I was interested in working for so little-- nobody speaks english, and they don't seem keen to learn it, so the language barrier is impossibly high until I learn Russian

[labrynthos]

Russian is worth it. All the post-Soviet nations still use it. But yeah, low salaries compared to the US suck. :-/

Hello

[anonymous]

Hey weev,

You haven't really talked about OBL on your blog.

OBL's goal was to bankrupt the US, and he was completely successful.

The Afghanistan and Iraq wars have cost $4 to 6 trillion. That's $12,000 to $20,000 for every US citizen, or $1,000 to $1,300 every year since 2001.

Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld were responsible too and should be tried and executed as war criminals.

This topic is also more closely related to the US dollar and societal problems in the US than most people in the US think.

Take care~