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      22 years ago

      At least Bitcoin cash stayed true to the goal of Bitcoin. A peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

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        32 years ago

        That was also untrue. Electronic cash doesn’t imply no/low transaction fees. Basically everything they told you was a lie.

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          32 years ago

          Show me where in the whitepaper does it mentions storing value, please.

          No/low transaction fees and ease of transaction is the main point of cash vs barter, Bitcoin abandoned that, now you have to go through the trouble of using level 2 to have small fees and quick transactions, what’s the point of Bitcoin then?

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            22 years ago

            No. I’ve had this exact argument enough times that it was a relief to finally bet on it.

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              32 years ago

              Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model. Completely non-reversible transactions are not really possible, since financial institutions cannot avoid mediating disputes. **The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions**, and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for non- reversible services.

              Right in the introduction to the whitepaper.

              Maybe you should start with reading it so you would see where things went wrong.

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          32 years ago

          Oh sorry if I don’t keep up to date to the daily movement of Bitcoin… I mean, I wouldn’t have because it’s a store of value and the basic principle of a store of value is the ability to use it and be guaranteed to have what you put in or close to it…

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            42 years ago

            it’s a store of value

            Sigh, you’re wrong again, bitcoin has the potential to be a store of value, it’s not one yet as it keeps going up long term until the market will have found a fair value.

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              32 years ago

              Well, if it’s a bad peer-to-peer electronic cash system and it’s not a store of value, what’s the point then? 🙂

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          22 years ago

          So is saying that everyone who bought Bitcoin cash lost money considering today isn’t all time low.

          It’s not as if I was here to defend Bitcoin cash, I’m here to point out that Bitcoin and lighting network is flawed though.

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            22 years ago

            split date != ATH

            The rhetoric you’re repeating is straight out of that scam. And you linked to their subreddit.

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              22 years ago

              You’re the only one who talked about split date and if we go by that argument, whenever there’s a hard fork the people who were there before will never be losing because they suddenly own both without having purchased one of them.