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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone who believed this was true lost a lot of money betting on Bitcoin Cash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh and show me people who bought Bitcoin in early 2021 that haven't lost cash please.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cherry picking, look at a log chart

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

split date != ATH

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol I think you upset a bunch of BTC fans just now 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm used to it 😁