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So you think Bitcoin is the first distributed database? No. There is no reason for a private blockchain to exist; it's a nonsensical idea.

Ever heard of astroturfing/cyber shills/paid trolls? On top of that, you have people who suffer of cognitive dissonance every time they hear about Bitcoin and what it fixes. They are too mentally and economically invested in the status quo. To make things worse, most people don't even know what cryptography is. Explaining Bitcoin is hard.

the TOR network

You mean the Tor network.

I doubt you can fix today's devs' code, unless it's a very very junior dev. It's like saying a doctor should be able to fix a chemist's work.

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What do chargebacks have to do with a currency? Chargebacks is something offered by services built on top of the currency, not the currency itself. Else tell me how to chargeback USD bills.

If you think chargebacks are the most important thing mentioning when attacking Bitcoin, then it seems like it does have a bright future.

Think of the children!

I find it hilarious how Bitcoin haters (like the ones we have here on HN) say it's never going to work, but then they spend hours every day trying to talk people out of using it.

Now excuse me I have to go buy a Lenovo from Best Buy...

What am I missing?

How is that law morally wrong? Couldn't they forcing you to breathe smoke be seen as an aggression? The same way they blasting you with very loud noise would be an aggression. Just because it's invisible or not solid it doesn't mean it's not violence. Let alone the danger of literally playing with fire in a closed space.

Why do they have any value?

Because people want them. And why do people want them? Because they find them useful for transferring wealth (see the remittances market: people no longer have to pay 10% or more to Western Union and banks), and as a store of value. It doesn't matter that you don't find them useful, or that you write angry comments. If you don't like Bitcoin don't use it, just like you don't use many other things. Unlike fiat currencies, Bitcoin is 100% voluntary, there's no violence involved.

Ah, the good old "if no one uses it as a currency it will die, so you have to spend it!" argument. The answer is that we are using it: as a store of value. But every time we explain this, detractors will invariably reply either that it's not a good store of value because it went down in <insert cherry-picked timeframe>, or that saving is bad for the economy because central bankers say so.

For these sort of questions, simply compare it to gold: Is it dying because "no one is using it" to buy groceries? Does it sometimes go down, and yet a lot of entities, including central banks, consider it a great store of value?

Why would they want that? You know they aren't working ad honorem, right?

I chose Git over Mercurial because Linus made it, not because of some hosting startup that can be pwned by random guy with no previous experience in hacking.

How is a simple configurable limite a "magic button"? What extreme technical difficulties do you see in implementing it, that warranted you calling it "magic"?

Easy to say that when you can post things like "This is how I hacked Github".

"Error establishing a database connection"

Correct me if I'm wrong bu blackholes are compressed matter. They are typically formed by a star that collapses on itself, so they are always very small in comparison. That's why I couldn't believe it when I found out there were some so large. Unless... they become so large by eating worlds over time? Where are all the HN physicists when you need them?

What if I told you there are blackholes larger than our entire solar system?

"The diameter of the black hole's immense event horizon is on the order of 110 billion kilometres, 18 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto, and has the mass equivalent to that of two dwarf galaxies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Cluster

http://youtu.be/QgNDao7m41M?t=2m40s

Ethereum is a scam. Its author received millions of USD in funding, and after a year the only things he has delivered are blog posts that are mostly just PoS propaganda. PoS is a flawed concept, but its proponents dismiss all criticism by saying "we added all these patches and unnecessary complexity and fixed it! Look, no one has hacked it yet!".

I'm all for the decentralization things like Bitcoin can bring, but Ethereum is a scam (like so many others that are using the word "blockchain" to attract fools' money). That might be one of the reasons you are being downvoted.

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there must be some difference between the CI server and our ecosystem

Well that's why I suggested using Docker: To ensure both environments are exactly the same.

You say they are virtual machines, but how do you provision them? I assume you are using puppet/chef/salt/ansible and creating them from scratch, as opposed to uploading whatever image you used in dev, like you would with Docker.

Glad to hear that. Some additional info then: Counterparty published an Ethereum version built on top of Counterparty. Ethereum responded by building Counterparty on top of Ethereum. The obvious difference is that Counterparty uses Bitcoin's blockchain and security, while Ethereum has nothing. To makes things worse they use PoS which we know can't be made both secure and decentralized at the same time. That's why all PoS coins are centralized through checkpoints or whack-a-mole style security patching.

Do you guys realize Bitcoin transactions are not reversible? Why not update your "security protocol" and take advantage of this new technology? Btw Ethereum is a scam. Why would you support that instead of say sidechains or Counterparty, and take advantage of the already existing code, infrastructure, adoption, and network effect in general?

Also on a sidenote, who's downvoting all the comments and the thread itself? This seems like a really cool project and it doesn't look like anyone's posted anything completely irrelevant here.

Who else? Bitcoin haters and deniers like patio11. Such kinds of irrational and emotional people are everywhere, including HN. Keep in mind they can be good and logical at other things, but get emotional on one particular subject. Bitcoin shakes some of the foundations everyone on Earth has or has had at some point (like the concept of money, the justifications for inflation, etc.), and a lot of people don't like change.

Their cryptocurrency engineer /u/ryancarnated said it won't be an altcoin, but coloured coins or sidechains [1].

What's not clear is why they don't use the word "Bitcoin", if they have already decided they will be building on top of its blockchain.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pt4kl/reddit_anno...

While the tests pass on my local machine just fine, many of them fail for no good reason on the CI server.

Offtopic: Time for start using Docker? :p

The term is "address". There are no accounts in the Bitcoin network.

tptaceck, someone's talking about you.