Vitalik is both a genius and a class act. That’s why I sold a portion of my BTC for Ethereum in addition to lots of Bitcoin Cash.
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I also heard that ETH idea should have be done on top of Bitcoin. Some arrogant people drive him out. Is that true?
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The very earliest versions of ETH protocol were a counterparty-style metacoin on top of primecoin. Not Bitcoin because the OP_RETURN wars were happening at the time and...
...given what certain core devs were saying at the time, I was scared that protocol rules would change under me (eg. by banning certain ways to encode data in txs) to make it harder, and I did not want to build on a base protocol whose dev team would be at war with me.
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And OP_RETURN *did* end up getting censored down to 40 bytes. So I think it's fair to say that this willingness to compromise protocol immutability to achieve a desired outcome in a particular application (hmm, sound familiar?) made ETH on BTC even then a nonstarter.
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When we institute layer 2 on #bitcoincash I think we should just use ETH to handle the smart contracts - integrate api's or something K.I.S.S. why not use the alts on top of the layer 1 to boost the entire crypto community
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"...I did not want to build on a base protocol whose dev team would be at war..."
Full stop could also work... no?
Primecoin is such an amazing project. Too bad it lost all the attention once had.
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eBTC community purchased eBitcoin.com and the project has many surprises coming. Can't wait for everyone to find out
Vitalik you have one weak to make your smartcontracts pay me 7-% for my bitcards you stole from me or im taking ether mints out 4 good nxt..
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Vitalik is cool. core is evil. Come work with BCH team Vitalik!!