Complaints from Bitcoin Users

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

Bitcoin transactions taking HOURS to appear on the blockchain. What's going on?

"Hey /r/btc,

So, I've been running into some pretty serious problems lately with bitcoin. The kind of problems that make people lose faith and stop using a currency.

Mainly, my transactions simply are not going through.

Last week I sent a transaction that took nearly an hour to get a confirmation.

And right now I've been waiting on a transaction for 2 hours. It hasn't gotten a single confirmation, it's not appearing in the blockchain as sent or received.

What the hell is happening? How has bitcoin failed like this?" - Razaberry

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

I have a transaction with 5+ hours without confirmation,

"nothing I can do really besides complaining on reddit." - lethos3

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

Be thankful it was included into a block. The way things are looking, this is just the beginning.

"I had transactions that were never included... so yeah... try telling all your friends about this network that cancelled your transactions... Might as well pay with PayPal." - NickyBTC

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

https://blockchain.info/address/18915UK ... TXsXDzBaNq

"finally after 12 hours, confirmed..." - McNulty_FR

[rogerver]

We get more and more complaints like this from users contacting Bitcoin.com now.

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

We get more and more complaints like this from users contacting Bitcoin.com now.

I see and feel your pain.

Around the world, I estimate we have between 3000 to 5000 issues each day directly relating to the blocksize and fee-market. It's only getting worst, we're still in the summer, not even in fall.

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

Complaints from users, Day 44 (29/07/2016):

How have censorship problems affected you in Bitcoin?

"I used to wake up super excited every day to see what new exciting things were happening in the bitcoin space. Now that a free and vigorous debate is no longer allowed on the most popular discussion platforms, I wake up angry at the people involved with Bitcoin who have turned Bitcoin's open and inclusive ethos upside down. I feel deep amounts of frustration towards those like Theymos who openly promote it, and Greg Maxwell who refuses to speak out against it in any way. It makes me feel embarrassed that people like this are so deeply involved with Bitcoin. In short, not because of the slowness of scaling, but because of the censorship policies, Bitcoin has been transformed from the happiest thing in my life to a large amount of stress and frustration every day." - MemoryDealers

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

The biggest thing the censorship (and consequently the huge rift in the Bitcoin community it created) has done to me is it generally made me less interested and less excited about Bitcoin.

"I used to read and post nearly every day from 2014 up until early 2016. Once the shit really started to hit the fan (around the point Mike Hearn left) my enthusiasm just flat out died. The community really has become absolutely and ridiculously toxic. This doesn't create an environment where collaboration flourishes and ideas can be exchanged freely. Instead, ideas that go against certain dogma open one up to actual attacks, from assassination of character to attacks of people's online accounts and their physical machines. For this reason I frequently change my username in an attempt to protect my privacy." - Ax-of-Kindness

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

waiting for real companies to move us forward.

"these children in charge are ruining it for everyone." - torulatv

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

Eventually this dam will break. All that's needed is the opportunity for the free market to speak.

"I bet if 2MB fork started with any momentum, the market would quickly choose the 2MB chain." - loveforyouandme

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

It is sick that people who think they are protecting Bitcoin are actually slowly destroying it.

"The fun has been slowly drained out of Bitcoin completely. So I guess I'm out." - seweso

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

So all this above showed that there are a group of hackers making an internal coup of the satoshi management and road map, using stealthy soft fork to slowly morph bitcoin into something else, it is not bitcoin anymore since 2014.

"It is time to fork them out and return to the satoshi road map" - vattenj

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

I used to be excited by bitcoin a year ago..

"Now it has changed in a big way, all censorship manipulations.. Just disgusting..

I now think we should just fork and return to what the Satoshi experiment always meant to be." - Ant-n

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

It actually destroyed my enthusiasm for bitcoin and made me doubt that reddit is a good place for discussion.

"When tyranic individuals can achieve a discussion monopoly by being the first to register an important name for a subreddit this just causes too much frustration for me.." - saddit42

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

Bitcoin is totally hobbled by this.

"Feels like a 3 legged race where Bitcoin has one leg tied to Lightning." - MrSuperInteresting

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

The censorship has created a rift where bitcoiners fight each other instead of going after institutional banking and fighting potentially harmful legislation.

"Bitcoin meetup attendence has fallen and many have stopped promoting bitcoin because of this rift." - cm18

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

24 hrs and NO confirmation yet

"its been 24 hours and I've had no confirmation yet, what am i doing wrong? Did i lose my coins...?

Bitcoin qt core to a coinbase wallet

Status: 0/unconfirmed Date: 7/28/2016 05:56 To: 13DiaGYfmytzvGwssts9gK4DKYDH9Ra4yN Debit: -0.99996160 BTC Transaction fee: -0.00003840 BTC Net amount: -1.00000000 BTC Transaction ID: b8afa75ee4d5ee5867148a4d231040cf0cd9d2ca6c3a0a84222a9cd0bf92a215-000
" - nortamod

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Complaints from users, Day 45 (01/08/2016):

Ladies and Gentlemen,

"the Hong Kong Roundtable Agreement has been officially breached." - Egon_1

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

Another deadline missed, more promises ignored, bitcoin stagnates--and still nothing changes and I am not surprised.

"Bitcoin continues to deviate significantly from its original vision exactly as core has been planning all along. How the "hopers" haven't given up yet is beyond me. Keep on hoping and good luck--you'll need it." - Vibr8gKiwi

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

So, on the expiration date of the HK stalling / non-scaling non-agreement, Viacoin scammer u/btcdrak calls a meeting with no customer-facing businesses invited (just Chinese miners & Core/Blockstream), and no solutions/agreements allowed, and no transparency (just a transcript from u/kanzure).

"WTF!?" - ydtm

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

BTCDrak heard that I knew about the event and was in the area.

"He specifically contacted me to let me know that I am not invited to attend." - MemoryDealers

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

I suspect that the miners will be threatened with a PoW change.

"What's not surprising is that users over on rBitcoin have no idea that this meeting is going on. Watch for pro-PoW change content on rBitcoin if the miners don't bow to Blockstream demands." - cm18

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

It's already been heavily implied by Greg and Luke, and they'll use the ETC/ETH debarcle to try and put more fear into them.

"I also expect that they will try and do as much damage as possible if the miners don't play ball." - ferretinjapan

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

My blood still boils when I consider this is such a fucking non issue that can be resolved by allowing the block size to grow,

"but core/Blockstream still resorts to trickery, strong arm tactics and censorship to thwart it." - cm18

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

Couldn't agree more. Miners should realize core has always despised and envied them.

"Bad things happen when your associate with bad people. " - SWt006hij

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

I'm having an extremely hard time justifying why I continue to hold any bitcoin at all

"when it seems to be controlled by "btcdrak" and a secret cabal of Core developers and a few Chinese guys." - SpiderImAlright

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

Precisely.

"My interest in Bitcoin was because it meant not bowing down to overlords. Yet here we are." - Richy_T

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

The situation at Bitfury is really bizarre.

"On one hand you have people like Jeff Garzik advising the company who support bigger blocks and on the other you have some shady C-level exec that seems to take the exact opposite view and goes around pleading not to increase the block size at these closed meetings in order to make a personal gain off of their trading activities." - moYouKnow

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

Wow, Bitcoin governance collapses into closed technocratic control.

"Real open governance for crypto still evades us." - Jeremy Allaire

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

"If fees rise high enough, and people pay them, that sounds like a fantastic problem to have..." ~ Pieter Wuille

"How can these people have their ignorance on public display, yet still govern Bitcoin?

The answer is that it all revolves around the fear of a Hardfork. That is why they have been screaming very loudly how bad the Ethereum Hardfork is. And I would not put it past them that they are fabricating the problems for Ethereum themselves in the first place (The DAO attack, stirring up resistance to the Hardfork, pumping up ETC).

It always seemed that the main reason a HF was dangerous is because the people who said it that would make sure it is actually dangerous themselves. A self-fulfilling prophecy. It's akin to saying "smoking is dangerous because you will get burned", and then pouring gasoline over you and setting you on fire when you light up a smoke.

That's what we are dealing with. People who think they are above it all. And they can do bad things for the right reasons. Subverting consensus because they know best. " - seweso