Re: XT, hard fork, ... for beginner !

This is my first post and I consider myself as a big beginner even if I read a ton of topics about Bitcoin and hold a few BTC, ETH.
What's the difference with BTC XT ?

Thank you,

There is only one diffirence that interesting you, block larger than 1 MB (up to 8MB) accepted since january 2016.
Thats all, if you will use bitcoin XT client it will be always compatibile with bitcoin core.
If you are using bitcoin core, there could be problem starting from january 2016

Thanks,

I still have a lot to learn. I never ask myself what client I was using. I just bought some BTC on an exchange and send them to my cold storage. I guess I can still hold my BTC, whatever happens in january 16 will not affect my holding, isn't it (despite the quotation obv) ?

Thank you for all the answers, I think it's important for advanced users to take time to explain this kind of things to beginner in order to grow the number of new users and so the popularity of BTC.

Just keep informing yourself and learning. Until 2016 there is a lot time and you will be able to learn many things. As one of the users has said, if you keep your private keys safe, you will be fine, whatever happens. All in all, all of our bitcoins will be safe, whatever is to happen.

Also you need to understand that this situation is confusing enough even for us, more experienced users. There is much FUD out there and even we are reading and learning daily so it's good to have patience with us as well.

Yes I almost forgot, welcome to Bitcoin!