The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @lopp ever

July 11th, 2017

muneeb Wall Street’s “Black Monday” (1987) had a drop of 22.61% and went down in history books. In crypto economy that’s called just a Monday.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:24 PM, Jul 11th, 2017 via Twitter Web Client)

lightcoin This looks like a nifty tool: “What is the effect of changing the bitcoin MAX_BLOCK_SIZE?” iancoleman.github.io/blocksize/#_ Props to Ian Coleman!

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 12:22 PM, Jul 11th, 2017 via Twitter Web Client)

When Bitcoin is ready for larger blocks, the network will accept them. Frustrated folks are suffering from premature emergent consensus.

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@richcollins @matthew_d_green Rule restrictions are backwards compatible (soft forks) while rule expansions are incompatible (hard forks.)

via Twitter for Android in reply to richcollins

@VessOnSecurity It /could/ be a non-event if BIP91 gains sufficient traction. Otherwise, we do it the hard way.

via Twitter for Android in reply to VessOnSecurity

@DavidShares @adam3us @jgarzik Poor choice of rhetoric - can’t have a coup unless there is an authority from which to wrest power.

via Twitter for Android in reply to DavidShares

@matthew_d_green A temporary split seems to be nearly guaranteed unless miners activate SegWit before the UASF flag… https://t.co/n8h272BN5w

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@matthew_d_green Major difference: chain split is not guaranteed to be permanent. UASF chain could wipe out the leg… https://t.co/u9NyZ6TLz9

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@AnonOnAMoose @matthew_d_green I’m comfortable making the broad claim that market value would be affected in SOME w… https://t.co/4ETfxbdzc6

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@matthew_d_green So yes it could cause a chain split, though ETH/ETC split was due to a rule expansion/hard fork as… https://t.co/Y22ECUkIOt

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@matthew_d_green It’s a group of entities who decide to restrict rules in a specific way & choose not to interact w… https://t.co/ysrAeEkLd8

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@matthew_d_green Still a single entity, but entity count has no impact upon their coordination. Though aggregate ec… https://t.co/VmUZGAmaJp

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@matthew_d_green Any entity who operates a fully validating node in order to receive transactions.

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