Before cypherdoc locked his thread and tried to blame the mods, I asked justusranvier when they anticipated switching the reference implementation of XT over to being from the 'btcd' codebase (written in 'go' rather than based on Satoshi's initial 'c' language.)  He didnt' respond.

Since Mike couldn't help himself and jumped the gun on inserting the basis for blacklisting into his non-fork of Satoshi/Core codebase and someone busted him, it looks like their populist propaganda campaign is going to fail and XT probably won't get even a plurality let alone a consensus.  They may as well switch to 'btcd' now and try.  I guess Gavin recognizes that.

I'd say that Mike's best strategy now would be to do a clean implementation off 'btcd' then use a combination of corporate backing and government mandates to try to steer people into his web of monitoring and control.