Bitcoin Maximalists 21.1%
Bitcoin affinity scammers 39.5%
Altcoin pumpers 26.3%
Nocoiner haters13.2%
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116 sats \ 2 replies \ @HODL 11 Sep 2022
Couldn't vote twice so: Affinity scammers & shitcoin pumpers.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @moneroshill 12 Sep 2022
I couldn't disagree more: the bitcoin maximalists are the reason why the block size is so small and the fees are so high. Bitcoin would have taken over the world if it was just usable.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @HODL 12 Sep 2022
There you have it. Count uninformed shitcoiners too. Go ahead and check the fees. Since SegWit, batching and LN took properly over, the on-chain fees are at minimum.
From the recent block:
We're fighting for small blocks because the most important thing is keeping Bitcoin as decentralised as possible - the smaller blocks, the less disk space, less CPU & RAM intensive, less bandwidth needed for a node to stay online.
Have you seen the node count of the large block forks? The Gigamegs one has about 20 because only large companies can afford to run one. Large blocks are the way if you don't care about decentralisation at all.
No matter if you've been around or not, read or listen The Blocksize War, please. You might be surprised about many small details that happened on both sides of the conflict.
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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 11 Sep 2022
I would also add unit bias. When Nocoiners first come in they always say “bitcoin is too expensive but xrp is cheap once it hits 20k I’ll be rich!” Then you get caught up in the fiat gains holding on to dogshit coins with forever Hopium
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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 11 Sep 2022
altcoin pumpers because people on the sidelines look at the space with skepticism, and dont know which coin to adopt. So they just stay on the fiat ship since its not sinking yet
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @scampy 11 Sep 2022
Governments, so I suppose nocoiners in this poll.
Here in the UK for example we have a ban on Bitcoin-related financial products and ATMs. We have been hostile towards core devs due to bending the knee to Faketoshi. The fact that our new PM wants the UK to become a crypto hub is an absolute joke considering bitcoin.org is forbidden from distributing Bitcoin Core to UK users.
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @HODL 11 Sep 2022
Agree with everything except this:
AFAIK, UK visitors are able to download the software. At the time of the faketoshi court case, Cobra went a bit overboard but reverted his decision and is currently blocking just a single PDF file - the white paper.
And even when people weren't able to access the software from Bitcoin.org for a brief moment, they were able to download it from other locations like bitcoincore.org, bitcoin github, etc.
I wouldn't blame the UK government for it, more like a single person, trying to abuse the system.
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601 sats \ 1 reply \ @scampy 11 Sep 2022
Unfortunately it is still blocked, at least for me... Attempting to download v22.0 from the website yields this message:
The software is accessable via other means, of course. And anyone planning to run a node is probably familiar with Github and VPNs anyway. That's what I did.
My gripe is moreso in the spirit of the thing. Censorship of benign software is immoral, no matter how easily that censorship is bypassed. Especially when done in the name of the most obvious conman in all of crypto (and that's saying something).
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @HODL 11 Sep 2022
Beg my pardon, I thought it was already resolved.
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2 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 11 Sep 2022
LOL who vote for "maximalists"?
Are you fucking mad or a real shitcoiner?
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88 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 11 Sep 2022
Exhibit A ☝️
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @HODL 12 Sep 2022
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @02174b3c39_lntxbot 16 Oct 2022
No option for the incumbents, private and State, who constantly prey on the fear, uncertainty and doubt of people in an inevitably futile attempt to save their own richly rewarded skins in the game?
Poor survey design, though I suspect the goal was to exculpate or incriminate some of the authors preferred candidates.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ken 11 Sep 2022
Listen up Jimmy, you have to understand
Everything is going exactly as planned
Bitcoin can't be stopped, slowed, or banned
You say grande, I say grand
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