THELOGICALINDIAN - On December 18 Bitcoinbchcom appear a video answer how accessible it is to bifold absorb BTC affairs in the agrarian Not continued afterwards the blur was appear the acquittal processor Travelbybit appear it would be removing both BTC and BCH payments for over 400 Australian merchants Unfortunately a few BTC proponents claimed BCH has the aforementioned issues admitting the actuality the Bitcoin Cash arrangement doesnt use the ReplacebyFee RBF protocol
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Double Spend Video Invokes Replace-by-Fee Debate
Just recently, Bitcoinbch.com CEO Hayden Otto appear a video that shows how accessible it is to double absorb BTC with a basal wallet that leverages RBF. The agreement alleged Replace-by-Fee (RBF) is a arguable accomplishing that allows a user to alter a transaction with addition transaction. RBF invoked a debate the day it was introduced, because bitcoin affairs are meant to be irreversible. For instance, the above Gyft CEO Vinny Lingham appear how abhorrent of a arrangement RBF was for his business in October 2018. “We candy over 100,000 affairs with amounts from $5-2000/transaction with no bifold spends,” Lingham explained on Twitter. “Over $25m in sales and the aboriginal time we got a bifold absorb advance was afterwards RBF was introduced.”
Following the video appear by Otto, BTC supporters approved to betoken that BCH has the aforementioned botheration and attempted to say this was a zero-confirmation issue. Some BTC supporters alike aggregate a website alleged doublespend.cash/stats and approved to say that the affairs of a acknowledged bifold absorb on the BCH arrangement in the accomplished seven canicule boilerplate out at 13.5%. But the architect of the statistical website disagreed and said: “That armpit he links to additionally shows that alone 1 out of 3992 (0.025%) attempts succeeded back the bifold absorb was not broadcasted simultaneously.” The developer added:
“That cheep suggests [he] either doesn’t apperceive how to apprehend stats or is carefully dishonest.”
Travelbybit CEO Plans to Remove BTC and BCH from Point of Sale System
The actuality of the amount is, the Replace-by-Fee agreement and Segregated Witness (Segwit) were carefully removed from the BCH codebase on August 1, 2017. No amount what the affirmation is in attention to zero-confirmation transactions, the Bitcoin Cash arrangement does not accept the RBF agreement broiled into the codebase. Still, afterwards the video went viral, Travelbybit CEO Caleb Yeoh told Micky.com that “[Travelbybit] will be bottomward both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash from the POS (Point of Sale).” “The accuracy is both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash and abounding added blockchains are not acceptable for retail point of auction affairs — There are trade-offs amid user acquaintance vs security,” Yeoh added.
Hayden Otto: BCH Being Prone to the Same Exploit Is Utter Nonsense
Speaking with news.Bitcoin.com afterwards the video published, Bitcoinbch.com CEO Hayden Otto had a few words to say about the critics. “Travelbybit (TBB) bottomward abutment for BCH is no loss, as they did not broadly abutment it to activate with,” Otto told our newsdesk. “BCH abandoned accounts for over 93% of Australia’s crypto retail amount and all this bread-and-butter action takes abode alfresco of the TBB arrangement — BCH acceptance in Australia is unaffected.” Otto added:
Otto went on to say that it was “reckless” of Yeoh to acclaim that the Lightning Network is a defended another for barter and merchants. “But it’s no surprise, as they additionally run their own ‘Lightning Bank’ careful casework through the Wallet of Satoshi — LN is alike added brainless than Bitcoin Core for the retailer,” Otto remarked. “You would charge to buy 1,180 coffees with LN afore you alike bout the acquittal ability of Bitcoin Cash affairs aloof a distinct coffee (not including LN acquisition fees). Further, you would additionally charge to lock $5,310 into the coffee approach for the effort.”
The Bitcoinbch.com CEO said that TBB has had “beef with BCH for a continued time” and that merchants had to appeal BCH abutment anon rather than BCH actuality enabled by default. “BCH did 93% of all cryptocurrency concrete retail sales in Australia,” Otto accent during the conversation. Otto additionally mentioned that TBB didn’t abuse to attenuate BSV which shares agnate acceptance times. “I don’t see abundant approaching for TBB accustomed the amount of BCH advance in Australia,” Otto added.
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