Quote from: BitProdigy on August 23, 2015, 03:22:07 AM

Andreas Antonopoulos :

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If you really believe that Mike Hearn and Gavin Andreson are wrong, then why are you worried? If they are wrong, then they are going to launch Bitcoin XT and no one is going to adopt it. And if you are worried that a lot of people are going to adopt it, then who the hell put you in charge to say no to all of these people? Maybe they should be adopting it.

You can be a small-blockest, or you can be a large-blockest, but what you can't do is go against consensus. That will punish you with a one hundred percent loss of income The whole point of consensus among the developers and consensus on a reference implementation is to lead to smoother hard forks and consensus in the network. But at the end of the day, none of it matters, the only thing that matters is consensus on the network, the runtime consensus of actuality over desire.

And so, if you say that you cannot do hard forks that change the network consensus, what you are saying is that you are giving the developers the ultimate control and monopoly control over the reference implementation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jqpKEHYGE0

I agree with Antonopoulous, the only thing that matters is consensus. The only threat to bitcoin is those that threaten to split the network by going against consensus. Those who think that 75% of the network can be fooled, are the fools themselves.

I didn't watch the video yet but the quote you referenced doesn't mention any fork. He is basically saying there's no threat at all to Bitcoin. You can only hurt yourself by stubbornly sticking with a fork that has no support.