Quote from: RustyNomad on August 21, 2015, 10:53:48 PM

I'm also not to sure whether any actual company have thus far come out to support a specific 'software' implementation. I know many are supporting larger blocks but so do most of us.

With that said, I like this idea. We are past the point where bitcoin was just a project to be 'played' and 'toyed' with. There is serious money invested in bitcoin and the developers of core, xt or whatever implementation needs to understand that their actions could have serious consequences.

I'm not saying that the 'developers' are not taking this seriously but it's maybe time that all are given a wakeup call as to how serious this matter truly is.

This is exactly what I have in mind. If they want to play and toy with my retirement nest-egg they should not get away that easy.

The goal is not to punish developers or business interest but to use them as a vehicle to show later generations that actions have consequences.

As for the lot at hand, they can now file for chapter 11. If they go through with any fork they incur serious liabilities, if they don't the business model they aspired isn't going to work.

They told their investors that they are going to be the next Visa. The only chance they have to do that on the back of Bitcoin is to push for
a) Compliance architecture, KYC, FATCA etc. that will be phased in with the XT fork (Hearn: "Peer Priorities")
b) Much, much, much higher volumes that will be phased in starting with 8MB blocks

If they had ask me earlier I would have told them that I will never pay for the infrastructure to allow every minor transaction that does not require the protection of the Blockchain onto the Blockchain. This is why there is a limit. They are expecting me to host all this dust and finance their business model.

Now they will have a hard time explaining the VC how to pivot out of that situation. The good part is that they probably run out of cash if XT isn't taking off.

In the end, the world will see that Bitcoin has a healthy auto immune system.