Chatter Report: Voorhees Questions ‘Smart Money’, Sechet Explains 'Miners Don’t Vote’ Declaration
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Chatter Report: Voorhees Questions ‘Smart Money’, Sechet Explains 'Miners Don’t Vote’ Declaration

THELOGICALINDIAN - In todays Chatter Report Erik Voorhees criticizes cryptocurrencyfocused adventure basic firms for reneging on their active appellation area deals Also Steve Patterson calls out Amaury Sechet over Chris Pacias animadversion that miners dont vote Lastly imaginaryusername contemplates on the altered roles of miners and users in Bitcoin

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Crypto Venture Capital Firms Renege on Term Sheets

Founder of Digital Currency Group Barry Silbert appear on Twitter afresh that Venture Capital firms that advance in cryptocurrency-related startups accept been reneging on their active appellation area deals.

Silbert after acicular out in the comments that most ample deals were unaffected by this phenomenon. However, it’s the abate deals like the seed, alternation A and alternation B circuit that are actuality reneged.

Bad Call?

The accommodation of VC firms to cull out of their advance deals drew aciculate criticism from the CEO of Shapeshift, Erik Voorhees. Voorhees was quick to point out that the VCs seemed to be the antipode of “smart money”.

Voorhees did not authority aback on criticism and alike compared the advance decisions of the VCs to an boilerplate Joe who FOMOed into affairs a Tron appropriate afore the amount dumped.

Whitepaper Sacrilege?

Bitcoin auger Steve Patterson alleged out the BCH association over Openbazaar developer Chris Pacia’s account that miners don’t vote. Patterson saw this as a huge aberration abroad from Satoshi Nakamoto’s account in the whitepaper that “[Miners] vote with their CPU power“.

Lead developer of Bitcoin ABC Amaury Sechet accursed back, arguing that miners “enforce rules” and gave the alternation that miners vote as abundant as Walmart votes on the articles on its shelves.

Existential Thoughts on Roles in Bitcoin

The chat again took a slight detour as crypto Twitter began advertent the role of miners and users in the Bitcoin ecosystem. BCH auger imaginary_username jumped into the altercation to adduce Pirate Party Founder Rick Falkvinge and explained “everyone is chargeless to do anything, and you may not acquaint others what to do” in Bitcoin.

Imaginary_username again abundant on the abstraction of all parties actuality chargeless and explained that exchanges, businesses, barter and investors all do as they please. This is because miners are clumsy to beset users with accoutrements and threats of abandon the way politicians accomplish rules adjoin their own citizens in a democracy.

What do you anticipate of adventure basic firms reneging on their active appellation area deals? What about the roles of miners and users in Bitcoin? Let us apperceive in the comments below.

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