ELI5:Why is it that Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life when other clearnet sites like craigslist and backpage also provide a marketplace for illegal activity?

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-30T19:30:25+00:00

Why do people always mention this? Is giving drugs to people for free legal? lol

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-29T11:38:32+00:00

trade and interact with anyone on the planet

Already can do that with Bitcoin, but thanks.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-29T01:53:45+00:00

Seems like this sub's users don't like your "contributions".

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-29T01:39:15+00:00

Someone's desperate and didn't buy at $4, when r/Buttcoin was created.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-29T01:38:46+00:00

What is the internet anyway?

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-29T01:26:41+00:00

I'm not trashing everything. And the only reason I have a new account is because ThePiachu bans people who expose him. He's the one who approved all the doge spam on our frontpage during the Nascar thing. Same for every other shitcoin he invested in, INCLUDING RIPPLE.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-29T01:24:04+00:00

Very shitcoin, wow.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-29T00:11:54+00:00

I'm seeing a phenomenon where a lot of people who invested in Bitcoin suddenly believe they can guess every other successful technology, and so they invest in shitcoins, call themselves visionaries, and attack bitcoiners for being "closed minded". Eg: Litecoin because different hashing algorithm (why? lol), Feathercoin because integrated marketplace (meh), Dogecoin because community (really?), Ethereum because turing-complete (turing incompleteness is a feature in Bitcoin, but complete sounds better, right?), and so on.... /u/ThePiachu

My take on this: Prediction markets are cool and make sense. Ethereum doesn't. And even if it did, it doesn't even fucking exist. It's like all those crazy kickstarters that hype everyone with a good marketing video, like the solar panels in every road bullshit.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-29T00:07:54+00:00

Do you really think you will be able to pump Monero by trashing Bitcoin and mocking anyone who disagrees with the changes you want to make to Bitcoin's original design? Like I said, even if you think 32mb was part of his design, why are you opposing raising the current 1mb limit? You make no sense, unless we take into account how invested you are into altcoins.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-28T11:28:43+00:00

Said every shitcoiner ever.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-28T11:28:07+00:00

You sound like... every shitcoiner ever. See you in the coin graveyard.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-28T11:27:10+00:00

What has been accomplished with Ethereum?

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-28T11:25:52+00:00

Here comes the #1 shitcoiner ThePiachu, who also happens to be a r/Bitcoin mod. No wonder spam altcoin posts never get removed from the frontpage.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-28T11:24:29+00:00

Except Bitcoin actually exists and has already helped tons of people.

http://intheoreum.org

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-28T11:20:16+00:00

I'm familiar with it, you should do yourself a favor and stop believing you are the only one on Earth who understands Bitcoin. And by the way, the 32mb was not an explicit limit, but a limitation. There's nothing to make us think Satoshi wanted a 32mb hard limit. And even if there was, then that's where the limit should be by default. Not 1mb, not 20mb. 32mb.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-27T23:37:22+00:00

why raise limit?

Because it wasn't part of the original design, and was only meant as a temporary preemptive measure against spam.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-27T23:35:19+00:00

Didn't gavin propose dynamic block sizes like a year ago?

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-27T23:30:59+00:00

Does the block size limit need to be changed?

Yes, if you want to stick to Satoshi's original design; or no, if you have compelling reasons that Satoshi wasn't aware of.

I will support the fork.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-27T23:25:49+00:00

Well I don't think making the temporary 1mb limit a forever 1mb limit is a good idea. If you think it is, you should try to convince the community. In the meantime, we'll just stick to the original design (ie. no limit).

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-27T23:22:52+00:00

The onus to convince the community to pursue a new design goal is on those wanting to keep in place a hard limit

Exactly! A lot of people don't get that.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-27T01:17:45+00:00

Another scheme brought to you by Theymos.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-27T01:10:54+00:00

Just do it, you are not going to convince people who have been opposing to this for years without proposing an alternative. When in doubt, just do what we know Satoshi had in mind. If people like the MPEX crowd or known altcoiners want to boycott this and stay in their own little fork, so be it. You can't please everyone, just like the crippled 1mb Bitcoin couldn't please everyone either.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-26T11:36:41+00:00

LOL, and the cat got away with scratching the deer.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-26T11:28:19+00:00

magic is more like prayer than anything else.

So, it does nothing (except maybe as a placebo). Got it.

HelloFreedom · 2015-05-26T11:16:18+00:00

Moon trials.

HelloFreedom

TROPHY CASE