I think something along the lines of telling him he was off his fucking rocker with his re-writing of history.

It's going to be way more
The Bitcoin Purity guy(s) just stole the start with their fork, as far as I can see they changed the difficulty and mined a few blocks before stopping, if I read that difficulty right it's about 1/10000 of what it should be, around 1 block per hour, so that would mean roughly 10 PH/s
Anyhow, it stalled 23 hours ago, probably money ran out even at these rates.


https://x.com/Truthcoin/status/2090972504760226042
My head just hurts from trying to understand what this is about.

Why do we even care about these any more?  At this point I could come up with DickButt Bitcoin and take part in this too.  This is like 2010s all over when everyone was curious to try creating a Bitcoin replica, but what is different now is that everyone seems to have some kind of mental issue where they copy it and they really force them selves to believe it is the real thing!

They've announced their own forum to step away from bitcointalk a few months ago but it's relatively quiet there as well.
Ironically, the latest few posts are nothing but spam from off-topic ad bots.

But their Discord server is very active, if you can tolerate some of the members posts (or read them for the lols), you can consider joining to get the latest news.
I wont post a link though.

Did he copy chatbot output without even check the format? Anyway, any reader who's not familiar with this eCash fork should start by reading https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/ecash-fork/ instead. IMO the drivechain addition is interesting, but re-distribute half of eCash coin that assumed to be mined by Satoshi to other people is controversial choice.

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I won't ask for discord link, but how is it compared with discussion on GitHub (such as https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin)?

They're probably sock-puppets, no? It's easy to create an account, pay for a copper membership, then there's probably a merit-giving service somewhere, or a farm for hire for merits?

  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But on that subject, there are also the "smarter" Bitcoiners who are supposed to know how Bitcoin works like Hodlonaut, but supports FilterBoiCoin.

I haven't read all of the posts but their Devs are active in the development channels where it's much more active than the discussion in their GitHub's repo.

In terms of quantity, most of the channels are very active;
I'd say, about 100~300+ posts per day, but that's Discord so it's more of a chat room type of replies.
The technical discussions are mostly contained in one or two channels.

I think it's a bit too far claiming Luke Dashjr is even worse than Craig Wright. Luke Dashjr is a legit Bitcoin developer and has been contributing for years. I don't remember Craig Wright writing a single line of Bitcoin code. Im not even sure if he coded anything for BSV or just hired some third parties to do the work. Craig Wright also forged fake details in trying to pass as Satoshi. All that Luke Dashjr is doing is claiming that their fork is the real Bitcoin because of philosophical views. He may be a bit off the spectrum but he is way better than Craig Wright which is probably clinically insane with the amount of bs he has been delivering since day one that he appeared on the scene. Luke Dashjr was more or less respected (except by mostly those that think Segwit was a mistake) in the scene, when was Craig Wright ever respected? And like I said I don't see Luke Dashjr has been trying to do anything for his gain and he is doing things from an honest point of view. Of course thinking your fork is the real Bitcoin doesn't make it true but I don't think he is trying to abuse anything or mislead people, I think he 100% thinks that. People should do their due diligence when trusting others with their bitcoin.

I agree with most of your reply but here I personally believe you are wrong.  Luke tried to harm Bitcoin and failed miserably in doing that.  I did not see evil in most Bitcoin Cash supporters but I did see a lot of evil in all of the dickbutt jpeg fighters.  It was a 'we will make Bitcoin our way by force' rather than a proposal.

Hell.  The way they were talking about it, sexuality and all, it almost read like they were planning to gang rape Bitcoin.  And I know Luke is not his supporters but I did not see him try to call them out at all for what they were saying and trying.  Or to separate him self from that dubious part of their community.  And that says a lot.

It was evil.

Then, I wonder, why early BIP-110 blocks used 4 MB limit?

You expected a fair launch? Why should they do that? There is a lot of incentive to launch everything secretly, because then, early miners would have more BIP-110 coins to sell, and could have at least some chances, to cover their losses. They mined 8 blocks with BTC difficulty, and could earn 25 BTC, but got 25 BIP-110 coins instead. Also, it would really undermine their confidence, if they would have yet another halted chain, or something similar. Also, because the same algorithm is used by other altcoins, that risk is still there.

Which can be yet another reason, why their blocks are small. A similar thing happened, when Bitcoin Purity launched, and had much less transactions, than BIP-110 chain with SHA-256.

By default, all nodes can only hear the current traffic. When many users are not running their clients 24/7, and are not re-broadcasting their own transactions, we have, what we have. People turn on their clients, send their transactions, see them displayed in block explorers, and turn off their nodes, because they think, that "someone" will keep relaying it. And in practice, when nobody cares about broadcasting it to new peers, then they ignore these transactions by default, and only some older nodes can mine them, or share them later.