Sat Apr 30, 2016 2:38 pm

I noticed lots of other misconceptions or lies happening on the censored forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1454900.0 There are a few lies or misconceptions I would like to clear up.(off topic)I never vouched for MTgox's solvency.Watch the video again, and see for yourself.I simply said their fiat delays were caused by the traditional banking system.Even with everything we know today, everything I said in that video is still factually correct.(off topic)I'm not the "self proclaimed" "Bitcoin Jesus."I don't like the name, I didn't choose it for myself, and wish people didn't call me that.Other people started calling me that due to my efforts to inform people around the world about bitcoin.I'm an atheist, and I'm sick of religious nuts contacting me telling me I'm going to go to hell for the name.As someone who first started using Bitcoin earlier than the vast majority of people in the ecosystem, it saddens me how many new people don't realize how Bitcoin used to work. When there was essentially no block size limit, free transactions would still confirm quickly because there was plenty of extra room in the blocks for them. If we had even a 2MB maximum block size today, that would likely still be the case today.In my specific transaction above, I was using older wallet software that calculated the required fee as zero for a transaction that in the past would have easily been confirmed with zero fee. The change output from that transaction then became the input for my $23K transaction that the wallet selected a fee for. This cascaded into problems with about half a dozen of my transactions from yesterday. In the past, the zero fee input would have been confirmed quickly, along with all the others down the chain. The only reason this didn't happen today is because of the lack of available block space.This was in no way was a stunt. I'm trying to run a business, and I send numerous Bitcoin transactions every single day. I keep track of all of them in my accounting software down to the very last satoshi. This problem from yesterday is causing me to spend my Saturday morning tracking down all the unconfirmed transactions, some of which were now removed from the mempool, and trying to reconcile that with my accounting software.There are plenty of other things I would rather spend my Saturday morning on, and none of this would have been an issue if we had just allowed the block size to increase the way Satoshi envisioned and promised to early adopters like myself.In short, I'm very sad how few people realize that zero fee, non-dust, transactions would still confirm quickly on the network if we had bigger blocks.I'm happy to try to answer additional questions below.