Re: XTnodes.com added a new chart: The number of mined Bitcoin XT blocks
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Until the 'C' word is reached, there's no change.
I wonder if you call 75% of miners a consensus. Because it's not, it's ridiculous.You should be thankful we didn't need a hard fork to introduce the 1MB cap in the first place, otherwise there's a possibility it might still be 32MB (or was it 33.5MB?). I suppose you think Bitcoin would have broken and died by now if the 1MB cap hadn't happened?
There's a high probability it can possibly go wrong with this approach, I simply detest it.
You can detest it all you like, but if you use Bitcoin, this is what you're signing up for. Bitcoin can fork at any time for any reason if enough users want it to. If you can't handle that, there are plenty of closed-source projects that might suit you better. You have a vote if you choose to use it, but that's all. Either go with the flow or go somewhere else. It's up to you.
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Imagine if I came up with a new IP protocol (for argument's sake we'll call it IPvXT ) that added support for new features for the internet but only if the majority of the internet used it. Until then it remains fully compatible with the current IPv4 or IPv6 implementations and you argued that using it means you aren't using the internet anymore. You're using an altnet. It just sounds farcical.
The analogy is flawed, because internet is not a consensus-critical network. There can be any number of protocols in use, e.g. IPv4 and IPv6 currently. Internet is not defined by a single universal protocol, Bitcoin is.I never said it was a good analogy, it's not like there's anything else I can really compare Bitcoin to, is there? Still doesn't make it an altcoin, though.
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If XT deviates from Bitcoin's blockchain without consensus then I'll be right there with you dismissing it as an altcoin, but until then you either sound like you're calling it an altcoin out of ignorance or malice. I honestly can't decide which it is.
Oh ok, so I'm either ignorant or malicious. The possibility of yourself being wrong is not even considered, I guess.I'm not one of those people who are too stubborn to admit when they're wrong (as per my previous post). If you can convince me I'm wrong, I'll concede. It's not my fault you're doing a really bad job of convincing me.
Not. An. Altcoin.
Omg the last paragraph made me laugh ahaha!
Oh the free entertainment from the Bitcoin community.
Priceless!
