Complaints from Bitcoin Users

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the number of new rules that are looking to be soft forked into Bitcoin against user wishes is atrocious.

" everything about core dev and their soft forks these past 2y has been for their own purposes." - shmazzled

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Complaints from users, Day 62 (07/09/2016):

Thank you Roger for all you do. I'm glad to hear you're continuing the fight for bigger blocks while exposing the weak spot in current Bitcoin development.

"I was sad to hear that you had to sell some of your coin but it's understandable. Traitors like /u/nullc will never understand concepts like freedom, sound money, free markets, or optimism. We need more people like you. Never give up." - SWt006hij

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You may have noticed that bitcoin transactions have flatlined this year for the first time due to artificial network constraints,

"whilst the bitcoin:alt ratio is plodding ever lower and DNM markets are trialling other coins instead of bitcoin. It certainly doesn't matter a jot if you are /u/nullc but he has a long history of using alts and lying about it." - Joloffe

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Taking a Bitcoin feature - the temporary spam limit - and turning it into a political football has been the defining characteristic of Blockstream-employed Core developers

"for the last few years." - LovelyDay

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SegWit encourage a situation similar to the Federal Reserve

"whereby a tiny few determine economic changes." - Jeff Garzik

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Nobel Laureate Economist Thinks the US Govt Has

"Shut Down' Bitcoin" - bit_moon

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Bitcoin Magazine lies about interviews

"I reached out to Kim Dotcom and his reps denied giving an interview. As you can see, Mr Torpey tries to make it appear as if Dotcom gave him comments, It's not true." - by durfy

[hung]

twice keep me waiting more than 48 hours, i cant believe...

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Complaints from users, Day 63 (08/09/2016):

Bitcoin Magazine

"caught with their pants down" - blockologist

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Contact told me a @BitcoinMagazine reporter offered to cover them if they emailed a draft story.

"Lame AF guys." - Jon Southurst

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I wonder who pays for all the pro-Core development stories? Only a company with huge capital

"can afford such good PR.... " - blockologist

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articles that are always pro-Core serve no purpose than to be PR for Core.

"Why not have more unbiased pieces?" - Bronxr

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I agree with bronzr,

"more peaces from different perspective would make it a stronger medium." - Kai

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The main problem of SegWit is that it delays a blocksize-limit increase for a lot longer than necessary. And seeing remarks from Core developers regarding the fee market makes me think that postponing an increase was exactly what they wanted. This dishonesty is what fuels my anger towards Core dev's: Pushing economic changes without broad consensus.

"That is definitely an abuse of power, even when most keep repeating the mantra that they are not in control, and even when they think they are being safe & conservative." - seweso

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it is irresponsible behavior by certain developers to cause intentional higher costs on the entire bitcoin network

"to push for their solution." - Egon_1

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I think this is insanely risky

"and could cause bitcoin to lose the network effect giving dominance to another altcoin." - cdn_int_citizen

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Complaints from users, Day 64 (09/09/2016):

As a side note, posts of Jeff Garzik's talks will get censored on /r/bitcoin. If ever one of the mods wants to debate you and muddy the issue by saying there is no censorship and its just a filter, simply post a youtube link (in comments) without his name and watch it get removed.

"It's proof positive that actual discussions get censored." - PastaArt

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Everyone in /r/btc IS a segregated witness to Blockstream destroying our favorite cryptocurrency because we have no way to speak out in the popular forums!

"/u/theymos literally sent us to the back of the bus!

It's funny (and painful) because it's true.

Hay guyz, let's soft fork economic changes into Bitcoin. That sounds like a great idea. If anyone complains or puts together a balanced pros and cons video, we'll ban and censor them. We'll call the project 'segregated witness'.

What a great name for their latest rube goldberg machine ." - 10mmauto

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IMHO segwit will the the first step toward Bitcoin becoming somethings very different, overly complex and under delivering with every change made by ever more complex soft forks activate very few people (mining should be seen as one entity now I think it is pretty obvious).

"Bitcoin is lost." - Ant-n

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It makes sense if AXA, blocksteam funder, wants bitcoin to die...

"which would also be in their interest." - cdn_int_citizen

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Core are rushing something out and implementing that contentious change as soon as it's done. That just doesn't make sense, test the thing before unleashing it on anything,

"especially a 12 billion dollar economy." - Mbizzle135

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It should get the same or more scrutiny than the larger block proposals put forward in 2013. I say more because it's actually a much bigger change in that it introduce new economic rules that are yet untested

"let alone peer reviewed." - Adrian-X

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I think a lot of people are concerned that SegWit is overly complex

"and could result in a serious problem." - moYouKnow

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although SegWit likely has long-term benefits, IMO it will probably do next to nothing in the short term with regards to cramped block space.

"I don't know why you don't collaborate with the Unlimited developers. You know this blocksize insanity is going to end one way or another; better it be accomplished through collaborative effort and some minimal compromise rather than shutting them (not to mention a decent percentage of regular users who don't want this 1MB-at-all-costs nonsense) out completely." - ChairmanOfBitcoin

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It's overly complex. In addition to fixing transaction malleability (which is a useful bug fix) it changes the block structure (extra Merkle tree), it complicates fee calculation by adding two buckets for accounting purposes, and it has two (IMO gross) kluges so as to gain the ability to soft fork (anybody can pay, mucking with coinbase).

"One other problem is that roll-back, should it be necessary, would require a hard work that could put user funds at risk.

In addition, Segwit has been oversold. All its "benefits" werepresented to the community but not its disadvantages. (This is because of censorship.) " - tl121

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how does this fix capacity issues we have right now?

"The beneifits only happen when enough transactions are segwit type, which could take years, if ever. what happens if segwit never takes off?" - DaSpawn

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Stuck on Unconfirmed

"I transferred bitcoin from localbitcoin to my electrum wallet and it has said 'unconfirmed' for the past 24 hours. Should I try to restart the wallet? I'm hesitant to do so because I don't want to lose all of my bitcoin." - ChicagoKid912

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Went confirmation taking so long?

"Sent 2 amounts from bitx any bitgo, both not confirming. Bitgo fee changed for priority...why taking so long ? Address 18J1ogW8FFGNuu9gefBVBWUVv78V2p9qD6" - btcsa

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There is ALOT of volume on the blockchain right now with high fees. I also have a transaction with a high priority fee of .0001 for a 250kb transaction and it's been 2 hours.

"This happens occasionally when traffic is through the roof." - m143v

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At noon (japan time) I made a transaction,

"it took 4H to confirm." - NicolasDorier