Wow. Just wow. Over 400 subscriptions in just 24 hours. I expected this to be big but this is phenomenal. Thank you guys. This really supports the fact that there are a lot of us out there that want to make sure satoshi’s vision of bitcoin survives, and if takes a hardfork split to do this then this is what we will do.
I wanted to take this chance early to make some clarifications and give you some information about myself and this sub, since a lot of you have (rightly so) been asking questions.
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Who are you?
I suggest for anyone interested in who I am, should take a look through my comment and submission history. This will probably give a clearer picture of me (although it might make look a little angry over the past year due to all the stalling and coopting of bitcoin).
I got into bitcoin in 2011 just after the first bubble popped. Since then I have been a trader and small-scale miner of bitcoin. I am no big name in bitcoin but I am an avid supporter of it and feel I have a fairly good grasp of how bitcoin works on a technical, economic and social level (although I am always learning more).
For now I would like to stay pseudonymous. This may change in the future. Because this fork will be a contentious fork, the actions of certain people in the past suggest to me that there are going to a large number of attacks on people involved in this, not unlike what happened with Classic and XT. For this reason I feel people should take what steps they feel necessary to protect themselves.
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What is this subreddit for?
I have created this subreddit as a place to discuss how to move forward with a bitcoin hardfork split. To be specific, a split where afterwards there are two separate sets of coins. All owners of bitcoin at the time of the split will also hold the exact same amount of new bitcoin after the split. These coins will then be able to be traded freely at exchanges.
This subreddit is a place to discuss all aspects of the split, including the philosophical, technical, economic, security and any other relevant side of the fork.
I want to be clear, this is a place to discuss HOW the hardfork split can happen and a place to find news on it’s progress. This is not a place to discuss IF a hardfork split can happen. Both r/btc and r/bitcoin (although I do not recommend r/bitcoin) will be perfectly fine to have this kind of discussion. This will be a curated sub for the process of making a hardfork split happen.
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What are your moderation policies?
I am well aware that this is a very sensitive topic. I think this is in large part due to the fact that there has been such a harsh moderation/censorship policy on the main bitcoin communication channels r/bitcoin and bitcointalk. This is actually part of the reason why I have decided to make this a curated sub with a specific purpose. General bitcoin subs like r/bitcoin and r/btc should be places free from censorship and heavy curation because these are places that should not have a specific purpose other than to facilitate the free communication and information of individuals in the bitcoin community.
I have decided that this sub SHOULD be curated within the bounds of it’s purpose; facilitating the process of creating a successful bitcoin hardfork split. I understand that this will put certain people off using this sub and that there will likely be calls of “SAFE SPACE” and “CENSORSHIP”, but in IMO this is not the case.
To explain my thought process, I would liken the moderation policy to the atmosphere at a normal place of work. At a normal place of work, you would not expect to be harassed, shouted at, called “idiots”. You wouldn’t expect there to people in the corner of the room throwing shit around constantly disturbing the objective of the company. I have no problem with people having objections to the concept of a hardfork split in general. This is not the sub to discuss these objections though. This is how I intend to moderate this sub.
To give some specific examples:
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If you are against the hardfork split in general as a concept you will not be allowed to post in this sub.
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Known trolls will be banned from this sub with no exceptions.
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If you constantly attack other users aggressively you will receive warnings and an eventual ban if the behaviour continues.
Inside of these bounds I will try my best to make this sub as positive and productive as possible. I am open to suggestions on pretty much anything outside the basic rules.
I intend to give out gold, possibly weekly, for the best and most valuable thread. Maybe this is something everyone could vote on or we could find some automated way of doing it that is not easily gamed.
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Who is involved in the Hardfork Split?
Talks have started between various different devs including; some Classic devs, some Bitcoin Unlimited devs and u/ftrader (the guy who has made the most progress on a hardfork split client). I won’t name names as this is very early days but I am hoping that we can gather even more dev talent as we progress. If anyone out there has the talent and will to add to this project please get in touch. We’d love to have you. Hopefully we can even get some of the more fringe core devs involved.
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Questions about the hardfork split itself
I have got a lot of questions about the hardfork split itself. There are no clear answers for any of this yet as we have to see where the community consensus on this lies. I have seen tons of excellent ideas already, just today. I am confident we will come up a solid plan and roadmap overtime, that a large number of the community can get behind.
Something I want to be clear on. We ARE going to fork. This IS going to happen now matter what now. Miners and Core devs have had a year now to make some form of compromise and bring the community back together. They have refused to and there is no sign that anything is going to change in the near future. Bitcoin is being harmed right now. The user experience is on a slope down hill and the trajectory we are on indicates that it will only get worse. Bitcoin is supposed to be the future of money. That means it has to be better in almost every way than fiat money. If that means we need to take a step back before we can start taking steps forward, then this is what we need to do.
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I think this outpouring of support in such a short amount of time shows that we are really onto to something here. We need to keep up the momentum and take this chance to save bitcoin.
