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

November 23rd, 2016

You know you’ve reached a new level when you can no longer find any humor in Morris’ Three Golden Rules of Computer… https://t.co/sVrl9KcQYm

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@MAbtc @bitedgeco I think we agree on that point; I basically said as much with https://t.co/gcsD7M42YZ

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@MAbtc @bitedgeco Refer to my tweetstorm from earlier today for more of my thinking about transaction backlogs. https://t.co/PNDMiZGSdn

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@MAbtc @bitedgeco As I noted (I am “statoshi”) on that thread, such an increase can easily be due to organic growth. It’s not proof of spam.

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@fredzannarbor You mean in relation to the value sent by the transaction? Doesn’t make much sense either since that’s not how market works.

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@SDLerner True, true, though when discussing the fee market and comparing tx fees to their confirmation times, fee rates are a good standard

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@ErikVoorhees I have yet to figure out how to open a bank account in India.

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The only sane way to describe bitcoin transaction fees is in cost per byte of data. If you just state the total cost, it’s nonsensical.

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@paul_btc @JVWVU1 Some companies would prefer on-chain transactions because then the users can verify balances on their own.

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5) As such, I’d bet that some backlogs are not attacks, but rather people firing up new services & learning the hard way.

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4) I tell these companies to use on-chain transactions for entering and exiting their service; the rest should be internal DB updates.

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3) I’ve had to tell a number of companies over the years to re-architect or scrap their plans so that they don’t make too many transactions.

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2) Some companies getting into Bitcoin don’t comprehend the scarcity of block space and want the blockchain to do all their accounting.

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1) It would only take one moderately sized company to start regularly sending BTC to users in order to create a large transaction backlog.

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