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Lightning Developer Discusses How BTC Will Take Over the World

Lightning developer discusses how btc will take over the world

Lightning Developer Discusses How BTC Will Take Over the World

Lightning developer discusses how btc will take over the world

After bitcoin was first brought in to the world through Satoshi Nakamoto, the world of finance changed. He/she/them aimed to remove the power and regulations that governments had over the public money and was instead to be brought back into the hands of the user.

Ever since the day Bitcoin was introduced, it seems to have taken on a life of its own and shows a lot more potential than Nakamoto could have ever realised. The leading cryptocurrency is disrupting the financial world, the technology and is predicted to reach a value of $100,000 up to millions. In addition to this is that it is being pitched to entrepreneurs as eventually becoming the norm on an international level.

One Lightning developer saw the cryptocurrencies potential on a global scale following a recent trip he took to China and is now sharing his experience with the world.

The developer for the Lightning Network-based wallet solution Zaps, Jack Mallers was recently in China in order to promote his services and while there, he discussed all things Bitcoin, Zap and Lightning, not to mention what the world could be like in the future.

Mallers highlighted that despite there is always going to be a cultural difference between the people of the world but when it comes to bitcoin, it is like a “global language”. The developer says that even though we all speak different languages, have different hobbies and unique views, bitcoin is something that has a universal language through its code.

As well as overcoming all language barriers, Bitcoin remains unaffected by “government restrictions, public shaming, social attacks, and corporate enemies.” It has been just simply banned in some countries and has had its name “dragged through the mud” by banking executives and politicians alike but even so, it still prevails.

Published at Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:09:58 +0000

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Andreas Antonopoulos has warned about bitcoin Unlimited’s system of consensus and the dangers of a hard fork.


BU ‘Sets The Rulers’ But ‘Doesn’t Change Rules’

In his latest Q&A session at the Singapore Management University bitcoin and Ethereum meetup, the veteran commentator highlighted how BU “doesn’t change the rules” but “sets the rulers, who will then get to change the rules.”

“…That is a very dangerous thing to do in bitcoin, especially if it’s done as a contentious hard fork,” he said.

While bitcoin’s best-known names have stated ever more explicitly on which side of the fence they fall, businesses – and especially exchanges – are already making contingency plans in the event a fork occurs.

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A group of major exchanges announced a week ago Friday that they would treat a BU fork as a “new asset” with a new ticker. Two exchanges – Bitfinex and yesterday HitBTC – are offering BTC/BTU trading pairs prior to any fork going ahead.

Antonopolous, who has previously stated his belief in Segregated Witness, said in no uncertain terms that each bitcoin user should exercise their free will in selecting which path to support.

“Form your own damn opinion,” he began. “I am no more an authority that you should listen to than anyone else; this is not a system of belief where I say ‘FC Barcelona’ and you say ‘yeah!’”

He went to on reiterate why he personally believes SegWit should be implemented over the alternatives, including bitcoin Classic and XT.

I think SegWit should be activated now because it solves a number of different problems; it’s the best-tested solution that exists… I used to think that big blocks would be better… and I ran Classic and XT to evaluate which worked better.

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On the subject of the former, Antonopoulos unusually signaled a display of support.

“If the choice were SegWit versus Classic, I might say, ‘A year from now, we could also do a bump through Classic,’” he added.

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The weight of the scaling issue has meanwhile kept bitcoin below the $1,000 mark for the first time in several months.

bitcoin Unlimited proponent Jihan Wu most recently gave a fatalistic appraisal of the tension between Core and BU, saying there was “no way to reconcile a societal divergence.”

“That’s if both sides of the divergence are unwilling to compromise and behave in a way that falls short of their agreements,” he said.

What do you think about Andreas Antonopoulos’ latest comments on scaling? Let us know in the comments below!


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