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OK, as a non-expert, all of this controversy re the future of Bitcoin comes perilously close to discouraging use of BTC...
"Confidence makes a currency."
All of this talk of forks, selling BTC by well-known names, etc. is likely to lead to loss of confidence in Bitcoin. Maybe those intimately involved with BTC development might not see this, but a loss of confidence among the general public (better said: casual users of BTC) will be a serious blow to confidence.
Loss of confidence would cause me (and many others I would guess) to SELL my Bitcoin.
Gavin A and G Maxwells are proposing solutions to a problem, what are you doing? besides saying you don't know what this is about and threatening with selling your BTC? Decentralization implies lack of consensus and different opinions. If you want to support Core run Core nodes, if you want to support XT run XT nodes, simple as that, the people decide.