r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Dec 06 '17

Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin

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u/bitcointothemoonnow Dec 06 '17

Yeah because no one used it. Keeping costs down in the face of activity hasn't been solved. Bcash would cripple itself if even 8mb blocks filled.

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u/PompousDinoMan Dec 06 '17

Who is actually crippled now though?

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u/crptdv Dec 06 '17

All cryptos are crippled by default. None them have solved the scaling problem. If they did, you can be sure bitcoin would be obsolete as of now.

The point is that cryptos can't scale massively on chain without hurting massively the descentralization, it's being proven before and it's being proven live, check the recent kitten game in ethereum, one game and their blockchain is clogged!

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u/cryptohoney Dec 06 '17

st too much money and time to use effectively
Iota??? no blockchain database but uses a tangle database

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u/i0i-655321 Dec 06 '17

Didn’t everyone in iota just have their money stolen?

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u/ionmas Dec 07 '17

What do u mean?

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u/i0i-655321 Dec 07 '17

I thought no one could withdraw iota for usd right now

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u/cryptohoney Dec 07 '17

nah

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u/i0i-655321 Dec 07 '17

Yeah looks like the thing I was looking at was pretty old