kallewoof

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   by kallewoof 6y ago

   Or: Bitcoin has an incentive model based on transaction fees. This is currently being "boot-strapped" by a mechanism called subsidy, where miners get "extra" bitcoin aside from the transaction fees. That subsidy shrinks
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   by kallewoof 6y ago

   Nonsense. Liquid is directly dependent on Bitcoin's success. And as has been stated before, Blockstream employees got a chunk of their pay check in bitcoin. Do you really think they'd try to "throttle" their own liveliho
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   by kallewoof 6y ago

   The Blockstream hijack lie is getting really old. And it doesn't age well either. Both gmax and pieter are not even in it anymore. Blockstream's contributions (what you consider 'hijacking') to Bitcoin are pretty slim at