Oct 19, 2016
Bits and Pieces
SEGWIT Drama
Part 1) ViaBTC Standoff
This mining pool has taken a political stance against scaling bitcoin, and is blocking any attempt at a soft fork to SegWit. They had 168 Phs and about 10% of blocks. And being that Segwit needs 95% of blocks, they can currently block activation.
‘We don’t negotiate with terrorists.’ The political aims of these hard forks are crazy obvious. They cried about scaling, scaling, scaling. Then they get their scaling and malleability fix to enable more scaling, and they block it. The position has changed from scaling to hard fork now now now.
The finer points they just gloss over, saying stuff like they have a different fix for malleability etc. but we see what happens when you let a small untested group of developers try to program for a project like this, you get ethereum.
Anyway, this is an on-going story, and may take a couple of months to work itself out.
Part 2) June was a big month
Anonymous investor of ViaBTC in June. Reports are that it’s Bitmain, but we don’t know for sure. Ver proposes the bitcoin.com pool. And MGT Capital announces addition of Ver and Voorhees, and starting a mining project.
Part 3) SegWit Released
Mailing List
Japan to stop sales tax on bitcoin purchases.
This article states that Japan is the only G7 nation that has a
sales tax on bitcoin. This could be due to pressure they feel as
tokens gain popularity, because they use the words virtual
currency.
Very soon, the race for bitcoin will be on. Japan is facing
declining population, increased debt, impotent monetary policy, a
stagnant economy, and more. They are in a position to want a reset
or to make a move with huge potential upside.
Nikkei.com Article
SEC Comments on the Winklevoss ETF
The SEC extended the deadline for a decision on the bitcoin ETF,
requesting more public comments on 12 Oct. I included a few links
in the show notes to some interesting comments they received during
this initial period. Does the SEC even have jurisdiction? I think
the understanding of juristidiction has changed from a dependence
on the what it’s regulating, to who they are regulating.
SEC Kicks The Can
Some out of touch public comments
Tweet Source from @MAbtc
Brave browser KYC/AML’ing you to get your bitcoin
CEO and I tweet
Scaling Bitcoin
Day 1 Morning
The entire conference is available on their YouTube.
Scaling Bitcoin website
Matt Corallo’s (Core dev) blog about his reaction to the conference.
Altcoinville
TheICO.info is hilarious.
Tuur Demeester has been making his rounds on podcasts and stuff recently, after his blog post. He was on Sovryn Tech a good podcast that I listen to, and Epicenter Bitcoin.
I give Tuur huge props. He stepped into hostile territory, with
his rational bitcoin positions, and killed it.
Epicenter Blockchain Clip
Tuur’s Medium post
Ethereum Hard Fork
Check out twitter #ethereum or the r/ethereum subreddit.
Featured Article
What the internet was supposed to be. Talking wikileaks, the
internet and bitcoin, the coming Dot Bit bubble.
Wikileaks Podesta post
R3’s issues continue
R3 Trouble in Paradise
Flash Point
ECB warns people about the horrible threat of bitcoin to their
unpopular regulations. Is the ECB retarded?
Reuters
The dollar will not strengthen as many expect.
Zerohedge article