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Comment · 5 years ago
I guess President Vladimir and Chairman Xi would be delighted with the comparison.
Comment · 7 years ago
Buried at the bottom of their FAQ:
"This change won't affect a number of groups such as Pro Networks and Non-Profits."
Assuming this means that most of the small community-driven groups will be unaffected by the change.
Still, this is clearly a communication fail, as well as a cardinal sin for usability:
By charging users to RSVP yes, they are literally putting a tax directly on a key engagement activity for the whole site.
I also agree with the comment that Meetup has done a poor job of improving itself. The "design facelift" they did 2 years ago negatively affected the growth of our group, and they haven't added much value since then.
A better approach would be to take 15% of ticket sales done through the site in a way that could improve engagement and revenue.
Meetup may have a well-deserved PR hailstorm for this.
Comment · 8 years ago
MimbleWimble = very cool tech.
Comment · 9 years ago
Indeed I stepped right into the next "civil war" by using "BCash" instead of its symbol, BCH.
Chill out, please. I don't want to see it fail at all.
Read my original remark more closely. This is good for the whole industry. We are holding both.
Comment · 9 years ago
Agreed, I put "market cap" into quotes for just this reason.
And congratulations on the trading. Please buy more Bitcoin with the profit. It's all good for the industry. just wait and see.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm a board member and founder of https://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/
What happened on 1 August and with the prices immediately after suggests how the conflict over the blocksize has been widely misreported.
Bitcoin was not ripping itself into two in a civil war, but innovating new forms of governance and token distribution for new projects.
We now have a technically proven, and from the looks of it, established new method of token distribution that is arguably far superior to crowd sales and ICOs.
If you don't like the BCH or Bitcoin implementation, there are already hundreds of other cryptocurrytencies, but you can also fork your own from the biggest, original (and arguably most widely distributed).
BCH now has a "market cap" of about $3.7 billion dollars, probably a world record for a startup (open source project) that was literally released to the world a few days ago.
If you own bitcoins before the fork, you should now own equal amounts on both sides of the coin, and (hopefully) soon will be able to buy or sell either token, depending on your preference.
Bitcoin itself has a $52 billion dollar market cap right now post fork not only because it survived the challenge and may soon implement Segwit, but because it will be one of the best chains from which to fork new projects.
There is no need to take sides from this perspective. Just sell the token you don't like and use the gain to buy more that you do like. OTOH, it's perfectly fine to like and hold both just like it was once okay to use more than one web site.
[post edited: BCash to the more neutral BCH ]
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