Still No Consensus Supporting Bitcoin Hardfork – Barry Silbert Pretends Otherwise To His Peril

Barry Silbert's (WOT:nonperson) "Digital Currency Group" announced in a medium post that yet another delusion of consensus arrived in the Bitcoin scaling debate with "A conference sponsored by the Ethereum,1 Dash,2 and Ripple3 scams produces an agreement on how to scale Bitcoin". The post outlined the reasons the conference attendees believe they get to make decisions in Bitcoin, with claims of support for the proposals by:

  • 56 "companies" located in 21 countries4
  • 83.28% of hashing power5
  • 5.1 billion US dollars of monthly on chain transaction volume6
  • 20.5 million Bitcoin wallets 7

A selection of scam artists doing business as "companies" while lacking the charm necessary to fleece the elderly allege they will "provide technical and engineering support to test and support the upgrade software, as well as to assist companies with preparing for the upgrades". Noted names incapable of providing meaningful testing or support such as: the MLM BitClub Network, Ryan X. Charles' paywalled spam reader, and Gavin Assassinsen were offered as options for the forkcurious to seek support from.


  1. Not Bitcoin.  

  2. Not Bitcoin.  

  3. Not Bitcoin.  

  4. For a very loose definition of company.  

  5. Unverified and unimportant  

  6. Volume denoted in wrong units 

  7. Entirely meaningless construction  

One thought on “Still No Consensus Supporting Bitcoin Hardfork – Barry Silbert Pretends Otherwise To His Peril

  1. The author (moi) forgot to include the attribution and archive link to the above quote:

    A conference sponsored by the Ethereum, Dash, and Ripple scams produces an agreement on how to scale Bitcoin

    Author: Saifedean Ammous (WOT:nonperson)

    (archived)

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