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There is an argument that block propagation and orphan rates acts as natural barrier to the blocksize.

With a very large blocksize limit, miners who produce blocks which are very big, run the risk of a smaller block from a competing miner winning the race, as it is faster to validate and propagate over the network.

This limiting factor should mean the blocksize converges to a size that the network can comfortably handle.

Bitcoin is not slow. It's fast, if you are prepared to pay for it.

This is where the disagreement lies. Should the price of on chain transactions be reduced and remain low.

Brilliant analogy.

Thank you. After reading their website, the GitHub page and all the comments down to this point, your comment is first thing which explains what Parse is/was.

Getting rid of the zookeeper requirement is a huge plus. Adds complication to the stack when trying to automate the deployment process. Maybe you could achieve a similar thing with the Scala version however.

For the Kafka deployment itself, you wouldn't need to install scala or java. Just download the go executable compiled for your architecture and away you go.

Yep, if you ever want a good nights sleep, go somewhere you haven't been before and spend a few hours walking around. Gets the mind working overtime, in a good subconscious way.

"- Realizing that anxiety isn't who you are, but more like a disturbance that will pass"

Absolutely. Roll with it, it will pass, there is no question of this. Keep going, if you can, and wait for it to lift.

Only because he was an early adopter of his own product. He released it to the world and kept on mining to keep the project going. He didn't pre-mine and then release it. There is a big difference there.

It just happened that it took time for people to catch on and join his mining efforts.

He could have cashed out a long time ago for a large profit but those early coins attributed to him have never moved.

Just use Electrum, bread wallet for iOS or one of the many other spv clients. No need to run a full node, haven't needed to for years.

Just use Electrum, bread wallet for iOS or one of the many other spv clients. No need to run a full node, haven't needed to for years.

Absolutely, there is a nice in built feedback loop as well.

Bitcoin increases in value which makes it more desirable, which drives miners to mine more, which increases the security of the network ( harder to attack ).

This drives the value of Bitcoin higher, repeat.

Anyone can have a blockchain, having a secure blockchain is not so easy. Miners secure the network and their reward is Bitcoin.

Yes the trade balance at the moment is negative, which is why we need the £ to fall in value, so we can export more and reduce the trade deficit.

Germany loves the Euro for the same reason, it artificially lowers its exchange rate helping it's exports. With the Deutschmark they would be at a significant disadvantage. Remember they were the "sick man of Europe" prior to joining the Euro.

This is at the expense of countries on the periphery of the EU, Greece, Italy etc. They cannot devalue and complete with Germany. Despite this look how Germany treated Greece when it needed help.