Complaints from Bitcoin Users

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Yep, years of reasoning, and compromising with them has been completely fruitless. Instead they have shown they are nothing but bigots, and bullies that just want to get their own way no matter what.

"Several months ago I actually outlined how I think things are going to go down, and tragically it seems to be doing exactly that." - ferretinjapan

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It's a simple matter of which one grabs the network effect capitulation.

"Bitcoin had that bird in the hand and is letting it fly away because of unbelievable stupidity of a bunch of guys that manage to get into positions of power a few years ago. Ethereum is like a direct consequence of that." - observerc

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What makes ETH better?

"How about quick confirmations, low fees, devs who aren't fighting, actual progress happening regularlarly, etc." - Vibr8gKiwi

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I bought some ether at about $10 because I knew that Bitcoin not being allowed to scale quickly enough would force businesses to seek alternatives.

"It is what any smart investor would do. With the announcement from Coinbase today we can see that my complaints towards the slow scaling camp were exactly right." - MemoryDealers

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The thing is also that eth txs are much faster than bitcoin's

"You want money send fast? send it using eth. No need for something else." - mWo12

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I don't have any loyalty to any specific crypto; I'll go wherever makes sense and will change back and forward as I see fit. Up till recently I'd never owned anything other than BTC.

"I hated all this Bitcoin infighting. Right now Ethereum simply works better, I can send transactions in seconds." - KellyMPD

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Coinbase has 4 million+ wealthy users.

" I think the writing is on the wall and we are definitely at a tipping point." - pazdan

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I haven't been to /r/btc in a while. Seems like many here are seeing the large migration from BTC to ETH as well.

"I think I'll hang around here some more. At least people are being honest with what's happening in this industry." - NewToETH

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Just sent some bitcoin to Polo. Still waiting on a confirmation after 1.5 hours,

"because the blocks are full and Bitcoin is full." - huntingisland

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denial is a strategy that works well up until the point of impact.

"if you drive a car off a cliff everything still seems to be ok until just that moment when the car hits the rocks below. some people (freakishly clever people) magically seem to have this incredible ability to perceive that driving the car over the cliff is going to have a bad outcome and they change direction. but go on, keep denying there is a problem - but I for one do not want to be taken down with you." - papabitcoin

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Enjoy while it last. Soon enough you'll wake up to kiss bitcoin's network effect goodbye.

"Who wants to use a crippled network anyway?" - knight222

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Complaints from users, Day 38, 39 & 40 (25/07/2016):

Bitcoin unconfirmed after 2 days

"2 days ago i send a bitcoin and i chose the option "if possible, send without fee", wich i've done in the past. But now after 2 days status is still: "0/unconfirmed", is it possible that the bitcoin is lost? Or does it just take very long for it to go through? I'm using the Bitcoin Core client v0.12.1 (64-bit)." - AndroidBeginner101

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Bitcoins are lost

"Hello someone sent me BTC from their wallet 5 hours ago, and usually it pops up in my account even before confirmed. No payment has appeared anywhere. No e-mail like usual. The person says the coins are out of their wallet. Here is the link https://blockchain.info/address/1PK3G8k ... wZUDS7P5u7. The wallet it was sent to is correctly mine. I checked over 5 times." - Lenlo123

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If the hash rate keeps falling and with over a week until the difficulty adjustment,

"things could get very congested in the next few days." - Leithm

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Complaints from users, Day 41 (26/07/2016):

4h waiting for confirmation of two of my transactions to get my money out of bitfinex.

"Thanks bitcoin." - tegila

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transaction times

"its taking almost an hour to receive 3 confirmations. this is crazy" - 1one1one

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I think a new Fee-wave & backlog is coming.

"Hashrate is down, tx-volume is up and it's only Tuesday." - seweso

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I think you're right. The hashrate dropping means slower blocks and with more transactions that can only result in even higher fees.

"I recently traded 40% of my BTC for ETH because of this still unresolved problem." - BiggerBlocksPlease

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Complaints from users, Day 42 (27/07/2016):

2 Blocks in the last few hours have fees which are over 10% over block reward.

"http://btc.blockr.io/block/info/422466 http://btc.blockr.io/block/info/422471" - Leithm

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Higher fees, less use cases,

"less adoption." - randy-lawnmole

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No wonder Core has been working so hard to turn bitcoin into an excellent way to transfer value to sidechains.

"ETH is really forcing their hand." - dgenr8

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SegWit is too little, too late and too complex.

"It is too complex as it affects wallet providers, and has 10x the code changes of a simple and safe block limit HF." - solex1

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Segwit is a farce.

"As this sub broadcasted, it won'tgive any capacity increase for normal transactions.

I still suspect, that the end goal is to establish an IOU on top of bitcoin and remove all liberating features of it.

Similar to how commodity backed money died and how gold markets are being suppressed." - MeTheImaginaryWizard

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Pending:

"How can I explain pending Bitcoin transactions to a new Bitcoin user?" - BodyweightD00D

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Complaints from users, Day 43 (28/07/2016):

What an obvious conflict of interest and timing against the most popular Iphone bitcoin wallet that is now a competitor to Blockstream. This demonstrates quite clearly how closely Theymos and Blockstream are working together to benefit Blockstream's interests.

"They couldn't even wait 24 hours before attacking Breadwallet, and they have never attacked them before." - todu

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It is sad to see that Bitcoin is slowly being turned into something else completely

"and that Breadwallet is being steamrolled in the process. " - seweso

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I know competitive markets are scary to blockstreamcore coin, because, ya know, it is the solution to their monopoly and terrible service in the ecosystem,

"but it's an eventuality." - jeanduluoz

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shame on you and your gang ,

"u/nullc !" - realistbtc

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When the next Financial Crisis hits,

"Bitcoin is going to show its true colours and Blockstream and its ilk are going to get buried deep." - pgrigor

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Ive seen enough over a period of time to personally believe bitcointalk.org and all associated control accounts

"were "possibly" purchased by blockstream at some point." - SouperNerd