Complaints from Bitcoin Users

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I would not be surprised at $2k, truthfully.

"The market cap scales with user volume." - Its_free_and_fun

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Blockscheme are stuck in the stone age and want to bring 1970's bank processing to bitcoin -

"with overnight or even 3 day settlement?" - paulh691

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Out of 12,000+ Active miners on Slush,

"Bitcoin Core now only has 27.94% support." - satoshixt

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Satoshi gave us working bitcoin first, he didn't make empty promises. Blockstream/Core team promised us working reference Lightning Network implementation about what... 1.5 years ago ? They did not deliver on their promises and the BTC network is currently crippled with the fees rising.

"So where is the Lightning Network reference client ? This is how Blockstream is treating the community, investors, businesses and other users ?

Is this how a serious company behaves ?" - ShadowOfHarbringer

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In addition. Satoshi did it for FREE, anonymously, AND without blockstream salary, and without github!

"AND ZERO secret meetings, and zero bashing of established scientists like Gavin" - Superconfused737373

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Complaints from users, Day 53 (25/08/2016):

segwit is a virus

"any attempt to not adopt it is healthy for bitcoin ecosystem" - vattenj

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Fees have gone up by way more than a small blocksize bump will give.

"Long term, it's anyone's guess right now,i think it's not a sustainable plan" - steb2k

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way more opportunity for scams and fraud?

"not sure that's a benefit to the community" - paulh691

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The Bitcoin mining network is one of the most beautiful things humanity has ever produced.

"Such a shame to see Core treat the miners like a big dumb ogre to be led around." - biosense

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As much as I would like to believe that Core/BS has the best interests of the Bitcoin community at heart, it simply doesn't pass the Duck Test.

"There is a clear conflict of interest here. We can't just assume that their behavior is just based on philosophical differences, or superior knowledge. Believing so is either extremely naive or downright stupid." - atlantic

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Bilderberg group financing.

"Goal is to suffocate and control Bitcoin." - trancephorm

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it becomes critically important that Blockstream "freeze" Bitcoin in place, preventing any improvements on the mainchain, so that their sidechain / offchain solutions (vaporware at this time AFAIK) can find a market.

"This leads one to the conclusion that Blockstream is trying to stifle mainchain innovation for its own profit." - tsontar

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Bitcoin Core Loses Support

"Amidst Lingering Scalability Issues" - bitcoin_andylee

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12,000 Miners is a good poll sample. Better than what they use in other polls which usually only have 1000 data points at best.

"You know what is ridiculous, blockstream and the 2 years of delays they have created." - Bitcoin3000

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Sent bitcoin with old wallet and stuck at Pending/unconfirmed.

"I sent a transaction of about 0.8btc and it is just stuck. I was using an old wallet, multibit .5.17 so I'm guessing it estimated too low of a tx fee. What can I do now and will it ever go through? Any way to cancel?

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/1ffde1 ... 27a849880e
" - bradgfromboo

[dgirl]

Hi


I buy 50€ of bitcoin, but the bitcoin doesn't appear on my wallet... why?

[REXODON]

can you help me on this?
i deposited a .05BTC at this address: 12bq1K8sSygyFxV7ex6PyyTZgNXKRdtcqJ
and it says;
All you have to do is to transfer some Bitcoins to address listed below (we do not accept investments below 0.03 Bitcoins) and your investment will be multiplied hundredfold and will be transferred to your wallet within 24 hours.

it is more than 24hrs., yet still to no avail when i check my wallet.

can you help me chek on this?

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Complaints from users, Day 54 (26/08/2016):

I really don't get it at all. If decentralization is such a coveted property of this system I would think alternate clients would not only be tolerated but highly encouraged. Sure, it's a distributed consensus system, but that doesn't mean it needs to operate as a monopoly. My perception of this system at the moment is that a very small subset of Bitcoin Core developers and a few miners in China have absolute control of the network and its consensus rules.

"It seems to me in order for more people to take Bitcoin seriously that's going to have to change." - SpiderImAlright

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I've been a "hardcore" Bitcoin maximalist and I'm not sure which Altcoin(s) might be the right ones, but I have the feeling, that Bitcoin atm only has one single advantage over a lot of altcoins,

"and that is it's age." - Shock_The_Stream

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One thing to keep in mind too is that limiting the blocksize limits the number of users too.

"You literally can not have more bitcoin users than the blocksize limit allows." - TheKing01

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Bitcoin's price is grounded in future usability.

"Take that away and it is reduced to a money burning machine." - seweso

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Other examples of such chain of change - myspace vs facebook. Or Kazaa->eMule->Torrent.

"Each of past champs failed to recognize needs of users and ended as a niche project." - mcgravier

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Because Core has coerced the cabal of Chinese miners, the only ones with the hash power to actually make that decision and change the stewardship of Bitcoin, a group relentlessly pandered to by both sides of the community.

"If that's not considered centralised control I don't know what is. "The Bitcoin network likes X" at the moment is a misnomer, because a lot of us hobbyist miners have long drawn our line in the sand, picking our Pool based on implementation options or running our chosen node, but then again I don't have Adam Back and the Boys banging on my door offering incentives and now broken promises." - Mbizzle135

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Bitcoin will be left in the dust by other projects that a) deliver users the currency product that they want

"and b) continue to innovate." - jeanduluoz

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Why wouldn't users move to another cryptocurrency (CC) that offers what they need?

"If you are a user that is frustrated with bitcoin (whether it be direction, tx fee cost, tx speed, etc.), why wouldn't you move to another CC?" - MoonNoon

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Initial network effect is the only thing BTC has got going for it

"& Blockstream Core has managed to put that at risk as well with their endless stalling for whatever reason." - bigcoinguy

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Personally I'm enjoying /r/Monero.

"It's not Bitcoin based and the community is thoughtful, intelligent and fun. Like Bitcoin used to be before the greedy crowd showed up." - Dude-Lebowski

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Maybe the miners bought Blockstream shares, I don't know.

"And I and many big blockers no longer care. We created our first spinoff in /r/btcfork and will be changing PoW to avoid attack from the Blockstream allied Chinese miners." - todu

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The miners have proven they cannot be trusted and were most probably somehow corrupted or manipulated by Core.

"We also get rid of all the current corruption with this move." - ShadowOfHarbringer

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Meh, we'd still have to eject the Core eventually, though the immediate impetus might be relieved.

"Bitcoin's supposed to be decentralized, right? So how about a little as far as development is concerned? And aside from that, all the shenanigans they continue to pull have just burned their trust with me." - chinawat