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by shazow 3129 days ago
> Bitcoin... is for P2P payments. The literally only difference between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash is block size and segwit. Your descriptions are partisan and disingenuous.

... and different community, different ideals/goals, different features approaches, incompatible protocols (replay protection, difficulty adjustment).

Please be constructive in your comments, suggest how to improve things rather than disagree and hit submit.

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If you wanna go there, it's obvious Cash is basically a money grab for Ver — made apparent by the fact r/btc won't shut up about r/bitcoin while the latter cares about actually improving the network. Same tactic used by r/The_Donald against r/politics.

Oh yeah, and since you're so knowledgeable and pc I'm surprised you forgot Cash almost didn't have relay protection.

> Same tactic used by r/The_Donald against r/politics.

And yet the irony of it all is that the reason some r/bitcoin users migrated to r/btc was that any discussion even remotely critical of core's decision would get literally removed or downvoted into oblivion, creating a de facto echo chamber that you very conveniently decide to ignore. Just like how T_D readers were forced out of r/politics in the first place.

edit: and regarding your "Bitcoin is for P2P payment claim". yeah sure, as long as you don't mind paying an average of $10 per transaction to make it happen in a reasonable amount of time. the days of the changetip mania on r/bitcoin sure seem long gone.

That's some serious orwellian doublespeak.
Critizing someone who has issue with a 4 word description of something by saying "be more elaborate" is humorous.
Especially since it already has a more informative 2 word description: Wu-Ver coin.