TL;DR: Bitcoin Core (BTC) maximalist Tone Vays is scheduled to debate CoinText co-founder Vin Armani and OpenBazaar developer Chris Pacia, 5pm, Friday, 21 June 2019 at PorcFest in New Hampshire. This will be Vays’ first relatively high profile panel since suffering admitted defeat in his recent tangle with Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Ver.

BTC Maxi to Debate Armani and Pacia at PorcFest



Billed as The Next Ten Years of Bitcoin, this year’s cryptocurrency panel at the annual gathering of political and philosophical libertarians promises to be a humdinger. Hosted by Naomi Brockwell, at least five enthusiasts, including Jeffrey Tucker and Yury Polozov, will give their thoughts about what might be ahead in the coming decade. “Libertarian events like @PorcFest,” BTC maximalist Tone Vays tweeted in response to his inclusion, “have been completely taken over by Shitcoiners (from #Dash to #BCash) probably cause guys like me have not been attending to educate the public on what sound money is. Guess it’s better late than ever ha.”

In late May, Vays did attend and attempt to educate the public for a third debate with Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Ver during a conference in Malta, as CoinSpice reported. A never-less-than fully confident Vays was in bloom, dismissing Ver’s main point about transaction fees and confirmation times being a real issue for BTC. So dismissive, in fact, Vays casually accepted a public challenge over if a $5 BTC transaction could even be economically feasible, much less confirmed by the end that day.

“So, here you go Tone,” Ver told Vays, “if that gets included in a block today, I’ll donate $10,000 to the charity of your choice. That’s how confident I am that a one satoshi per byte fee on the Bitcoin [Core] network … they no longer go through, and that’s why I’ve switched all of my time, effort, and resources to Bitcoin Cash.” Controversy later ensued, as Vays split hairs over what “included in block today” meant, whether that was 24 hours or by midnight. Vays later conceded losing the rhetorical debate to Ver, and defended against charges his $5 BTC transaction being inorganically pushed through to save public face.

Whatever the actual case, this time around Vays faces arguably even more knowledgeable foes in terms of cryptocurrency literacy. For example, not only is Vin Armani an entrepreneur (CoinText), he’s also a coder. Chris Pacia is an active Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developer, known to have no trouble mixing it up online and off when it comes to finer cryptocurrency points. Factoring-in fellow travelers such as Jeffrey Tucker of AIER, and this too might end in yet another defeat for the steak-eating technical analyst and BTC maximalist.

DISCLOSURE: The author holds cryptocurrency as part of his financial portfolio, including BCH.

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