Complaints from Bitcoin Users

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So far I've always thought of Pieter Wuille as a coder who does not participate in Bitcoin politics.

"But with that quote he has made it very clear that he is not "just a coder who takes no political position". Interesting. (He's the developer who writes the most code for the Bitcoin Core project.)

No Pieter, too high fees is not a "good problem to have". They stagnate user adoption and redirect new users to competing cryptocurrencies instead.

The fees per transaction should be as low as the system can handle. Transaction fees that are almost free, is the "good problem to have"." - todu

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Gavin should have never given up control.

"He was an honest guy. Now the repo is controlled by weasels." - 10mmauto

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So Gavin sees Bitcoin growing as a succes, and Wullie sees growing something on top of Bitcoin as a success?

"Why are we into Bitcoin if we need to promote something else? Which doesn't even have the same characteristics, and doesn't even exist yet?

One side creates a problem and sells a solution. The other sees Bitcoin as the solution by itself." - seweso

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A split is the ONLY way forward right now.

"They have forced our hand and we should use it to our advantage while we have some wind behind us." - singularity87

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If the miners don't announce they are going to change within the next week or two I think it is time to consider them essentially compromised.

"I don't think blockstream wants to actually have anything succeed, I think their whole plan is to stall and deteriorate bitcoin in the first place.

No sane miner would continue to follow them unless there was something else going on." - __Cyber_Dildonics__

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Sadly, I find myself tending to agree. This situation is beyond unsustainable.

"I too will end up reducing yet again my holdings if there's no clear sign of change in the next few days. The experiment does seem to have failed." - redlightsaber

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Central control may at times be efficient, but it is not stable.

"The only path to stability for Bitcoin is perennial forking." - almutasim

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The sooner we fork from blockstream core inc

"the faster we can move on from the never ending stalling." - knight222

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A group of meaningful people have left Bitcoin.

"Remember when a few good folks got crucified for making a project called Bitcoin Classic, and Bitcoin Unlimited? Now an overwhelming majority of people are screaming to have it back. I am here to say that in my professional opinion, those people are mostly not focused on Bitcoin, and probably for good. Myself included in that group. Overall, Classic and Unlimited (which worked closely together) was a nice project set up. The folks on this subreddit met it with open arms, and the guys on r/bitcoin and a gross majority of others not associated with reddit, whom I may point out have bigger voices in general via social media, crucified anyone who made another option. I am here to tell you that there is a large group that started those forward looking projects that have left bitcoin due to those people. Its one thing to say no we don't like that, its another thing to completely try to doxx it away. I'll admit I got caught in the crossfire a few times taking swings at Samson or others, however, Bitcoin is now to the point where I think it has been completely co-opted. But to what ends I am unsure. If folks really want alternative implementations, I encourage people to stop asking "why are we not forking" and simply do it. I know Tristan at Poloniex (if he still runs it) is a very open minded guy as is Bill at Bittrex. Those guys would certainly at least hear someone out on listing an alt-chain. There are still active developments going on both projects (Classic and Unlimited) and big ups to the guys still slaving away gratitude free. Tom zander is a real standup guy for sure. And Peter Rizun too. So at this point, in my professional opinion, There is no way bitcoin will change outside the plans of a few until either bitcoin dies (via sha-256 being broken or pinultimate network failure) or somebody does what Ethereum did. Most of my colleagues involved in Classic gave folks a great platform to do it on. A few minor code tweaks could get you where you would need to be." - 3xploit

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But make no mistake, the miners had at all times the power to break this downwards spiral and that they did not actually act is entirely their own decision.

"The argument that they are lazy and that Core was a good leader and all that has gotten so thin that it broke weeks ago.

The bottom line is that the miners not acting has caused immeasurable losses to the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Not deciding to act is also a decision." - ThomasZander

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If you are using GreenAddress wallet you are supporting the blockstream cartel quest to hijack bitcoin from the original Satoshi vision .

"if you favour Bitcoin as " A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" for the internet , remove GreenAddress from your smartphone \ PC and use something else." - realistbtc

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Bitcoin price falls

"as miners meet core developers" - blockologist

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So it only shows that bitcoin is controlled by bitcoin core and Chinese miners.

"That's our decentralization." - mWo12

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What happened to Andreas, why he changed so much to GMax?

"In today's AMA in 8btc.com, China's biggest bitcoin forum, Andeas shares what he thinks about Gmax http://8btc.com/thread-36622-1-1.html

below is his words:

"Greg is a brilliant cryptographer and a very very strong and principled advocate for privacy and decentralization. He is also a very very good programmer. I think we are lucky that he has chosen to work on bitcoin. But Greg is one person in a very broad and very diverse team of developers......"

"I think the idea that Blockstream is limiting the blocksize limit for their own gain and profit is ridiculous conspiracy shit. It has no relation to reality. "

But in this link, https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/43 ... mpact=true he said "Just got a PM from gmaxwell with the following gem, just to double-down on the tone-deaf attitude. He didn't have the brass to post it publicly of course, he's a cowardly weasel through and through..."

What happened to him? Why he changed so much?" - pangcong

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IMO, Andreas job and income (speaker, author, entrepreneur, commentator etc.) is based on neutrality.

"So he tries to balance his views to the current situation which can be this or that." - Egon_1

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Gmax has a proven history of manipulation and ethical bankruptcy.

"While he is indeed a talented engineer, unfortunatly that talent is bolted to a narcissistic tonedeaf greedy asshole." - master_sesuj

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A group from Blockstream and a group of miners are currently meeting to set economic policy for Bitcoin at this very minute.

"In your view, can a cryptocurrency whose economic future is defined by a dozen or so people be considered "decentralized?"" - tsontar

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Weasling yourself out of of a bind I see. You support stopping bitcoins growth dead.

"You think however many transactions are currently being made is enough for everyone. You believe in a mythical solution to the scaling problem that will probably never work as intended (LN). You believe that zero growth is a sustainable way for the ecosystem of service providers on top of bitcoin to grow. You believe that a centrally planned dictatorship of important economic issues by toxic personalities is an appropriate way to steward the project. You believe that the price of bitcoin which expresses a speculative future value can be sustained beyond levels of cents on the dollar with zero growth prospect. You believe that not satisfying demand for reasonably priced transactions is a good thing. You believe that limiting money velocity by central fiat is a good thing. You believe that censorship of important topics is an appropriate way to manage a community. You believe that bitcoin can stay relevant with zero growth amidst the sea of other cryptocurrencies. You believe that 10 years from now bitcoin will still express 80% of the cryptocurrency market without any actual growth. You believe in santa clause. And you are Andreas Antonopoulos." - pyalot

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Indeed, he has changed. Just look the very very original, unadulterated, free flowing, spontaneous comment in BitcoinTalk & compare it to the one at 8btc. It is like a politician endorsing another.

"He supported increasing the blocksize limit quickly last year only to do a 180 degree turn now. What could possibly explain this?" - bigcoinguy

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He is in the PR business.

"He is here to say good things about bitcoin. That means avoiding contentious topic like the block size and saying whoever is in charge is awesome." - deadalnix

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It seems he has embraced the old adage, "if you can't beat them, join them".

"Very sad, I thought Andreas was made of sterner stuff. That's the price of trying to be on everyone's good side, you end up being on no-one's side." - ferretinjapan

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In every horse race there will be a person who bets on the wrong horse. Andreas Antonopoulos is just a little unlucky when it comes to thinking.

"If he chooses to place his bet on the horse racer Gregory Maxwell who insists he will win the race with a horse that only has 1 leg, then let him. You can't force a person to bet on the 4 legged horse." - todu

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Why can't this transaction get in to the blockchain?

"Just been browsing around bitcoin and noticed a transaction like this:

http://learnmeabitcoin.com/explorer/tra ... 7aa78304a1

Why is it not being selected to make it in to the blockchain?" - newbitcoinguy

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holy hell, transaction fees are around 19 cents at the moment

" I bet it spiked fast which makes it hard even with guestimate fee solutions." - pazdan

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Is their anyway to recover my unconfirmed bitcoins

"I sent about a quarter of a bitcoin to an address that had an hour long timer on it. I was using a blockchain wallet and there was only a .0001 fee. Now it is probably gonna be stuck in limbo. I've read there's a way using double spending to get an unconfirmed transaction back. Can anybody help me with this?" - georgemc98

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Newest core and right now Armory 0.93.2 I tried it on the newest Armory but have the same issues on it not sending but get told I need to raise fees to as high as $65.

"I say okay but they won't let me send anyway...

Edit: This transaction finally worked, one of many I tried, I do not understand the delay." - jay45678

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Complaints from users, Day 46 (02/08/2016):

Help confirm my transactions and I will give you $20

"guys, please help me confirm this 2 tx ID. I'm not the sender. So I can't double spend this transactions. Please whoever can help me this transaction I will pay $20 for you.

TX ID 1: 2425d57cbe4a2b96e6418254ab3355d46f0ba1164ae1265c6f25bebe29382b35

TX ID 2: 2e4586dff204b5906619f9648756bb8a5071bc869feb61e19659e2ab59ccf782 (already confirmed)

please help me." - lebroncostello

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This is what happens when you let a centralized cartel control your money: Blockstream/Core & Chinese miners meet privately in Silicon Valley July 31; February Hong Kong agreement (promising bigger blocks by end of July) is violated;

"Bitcoin price starts to crash from $660 - now down 10% under $600" - ydtm

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The miners will pay for it in the reduced block reward values of a crippled coin and its fewer fees.

"The rest of us will go elsewhere, cutting out the rotten core of bitcoin either by a HF or alts." - bitlop

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What Bitcoin Core says: "there are many important stakeholders in the ecosystem" What Core does:

"hosts 2nd private event for only miners" - Tim Swanson