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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @sgrif

      You could. If BCC ends up at $300 then BTC may drop $300 that day. Not same as double spend. Your money is now just spread over 2 coins now

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    2. Sean Griffin‏ @sgrif 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @backus

      It's absolutely double spend. A transaction on the BCC chain doesn't affect the BTC one. Money in a wallet pre Aug 1 is on both.

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    3. John Backus‏ @backus 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @sgrif

      "double spend" = publishing 2 transactions to the network, duping someone into thinking they are paid even tho later tx will be invalidated.

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    4. Sean Griffin‏ @sgrif 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @backus

      I understand that it's not how the term is normally used. That doesn't make my question less valid.

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    5. John Backus‏ @backus 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @sgrif

      Sure just clarifying its not the kind of thing that would cripple the entire network like a double spend would.

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    6. Sean Griffin‏ @sgrif 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @backus

      Which seems equally concerning

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    7. John Backus‏ @backus 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @sgrif

      Yeah part of why people don't want forks unless it is critical. It is weird to have the value split and require everyone to arbitrage

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    8. Sean Griffin‏ @sgrif 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @backus

      Gotcha. Thank you, that answers my question. :)

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    9. John Backus‏ @backus 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @sgrif

      No problem :) Checkout ETH vs ETC for past example

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    10. Sean Griffin‏ @sgrif 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @backus

      Oh is that from the Ethereum fork when their... whatever the acronym was got hacked?

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      John Backus‏ @backus 30 Jul 2017
      Replying to @sgrif

      Yea the DAO. Now classic is $14 and ETH is $200. Market decides what it cares about. Kinda cool

      3:56 PM - 30 Jul 2017
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        2. Sean Griffin‏ @sgrif 30 Jul 2017
          Replying to @backus

          Unless you didn't care about the hack, in which case it arbitrarily devalued your currency (block size seems more relevant)

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        3. John Backus‏ @backus 30 Jul 2017
          Replying to @sgrif

          Yea it was certainly controversial. Another interesting link if you are curious. This one BTC vs BTUhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/60qv4k/bitcointalk_user_loaded_signs_a_message_from_an/ …

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