Sad to say it, but it seems Erik Voorhees profits most if Bitcoin loses market share.

[rogerver]

I've known Erik Voorhees for nearly 6 years now.
I've invested in 4 companies he was involved with, three of which he was the founder.

1. Bitinstant (I lost everything)
2. Feedzebirds (I lost everything)
3. Coinapult (I lost everything)
4 . Shapeshift (Time will tell)

I'd even consider him a very close friend.
I'm also very saddened and confused by his support for Segwit and Core in general.
Looking at his recent tweets:

https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status ... 9241235456
https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status ... 1217945601

The only thing that I can think of is that Erik's cryptocoin wealth is now largely in things other than Bitcoin, and he knows that Shapeshift will do best as a company if Bitcoin's market dominance is reduced. By supporting Core's idiotic roadmap of intentional full blocks with high fees and slow confirmations, this would help further erode Bitcoin's market dominance while still knowing that crypto coins in general are certainly the currency of the future.

I'd love to hear what others think, or ideally from Erik himself.

[mjglqw]

One thing is for sure; money changes people :/

[LiteCoinGuy]

Well, you bought alot of Dash and ETH too so why blame Erik for a reasonable position?

And by the way, cant he be a "friend" just because he understands the benefits of LN and SW?

While we learn more and more about the malicious Bitmain Firm (Antbleed, Patents, Threats) you tweet about coffee! I dont know what to say about that Roger and you wont tell me here i know that.
Money makes the world go round and you follow your own agenda with that.

[grabberfish]

While we learn more and more about the malicious Bitmain Firm (Antbleed, Patents, Threats) you tweet about coffee!

More bullshit from LiteCoinGuy. Show how they are "malicious". You cannot, because they are not. You are a liar. You want my evidence of your lies and trolling? Right here, in your own words: bitcoin-discussion/beware-bitmain-is-at ... tml#p58508

You should apologise to Bitmain.

You are a liar and a troll and I will continue to expose your activities on this front.

PS. "Antbleed, Patents, Threats" are the purview of Blockstream/Core, not Bitmain.

[rogerver]

Well, you bought alot of Dash and ETH too so why blame Erik for a reasonable position?

I converted about 0.1% of my bitcoin holdings into Dash and ETH. about 0.2% total at the time of the conversion.
The only reason I did that was because Core's stupid roadmap is providing a bad user experience for Bitcoin users.

Sadly Bitcoin has only gone up about 2 or 3 times since then.
Dash and Eth are up more than 10 times.

Core's stupid economic policy is causing Bitcoin's market cap to bleed out into alt coins.

[LiteCoinGuy]

meanwhile, more and more friends are leaving you.

[grabberfish]

You are such a vitriolic little troll. Be original or STFU.