Quote from: iCEBREAKER on August 22, 2015, 02:45:09 AM

Quote from: Peter R on August 19, 2015, 04:43:17 PM

With the recent locking of the "Gold Collapsing. Bitcoin UP" thread [my favourite thread to chat in], I've become unsure what the rules are for posting here at this forum. Cry

1. Are we allowed to talk about my butthurt?

2. Are we allowed to discuss my poutrage?

3. Are we allowed to criticize the socioeconomic majority?

4. Can I post silly cartoons to vent my poutrage and butthurt?

Altcoin Discussion is the proper place to discuss XT. Theymos is very generous to make such an allowance on his private server.

If I were him, XT and Gavinistas would be given the Bitcoin-scrypt treatment (IE disappeared like pinkos in Pinochet's Chile).

The logic is simple enough:

Quote from: theymos on August 10, 2015, 03:18:04 AM

Activating a hardfork based on what miners do is really bad. You could easily have a situation where 75% of miners support XT but none of the big Bitcoin exchanges or businesses do. Then miners would start mining coins that they couldn't spend anywhere useful, and SPV users would find that they can't transact with the businesses they want to deal with. The currency would be split, and in this case XT would be in a far weaker position than Bitcoin.

The possibility of this sort of network/currency split is what makes XT not a "legitimate hardfork", but rather the programmed creation of an altcoin. A consensus hardfork can only go forward once it has been determined that it's nearly impossible for the Bitcoin economy to split in any significant way. Not every Bitcoin user on Earth has to agree, but enough that there won't be a noticeable split.

No rules have been changed. Only on /r/ was a temporary 'time-out' for the XT brigade enforced, after a period when they were out of control.

All theymos did was clarify that the *EXISTING* rule against altcoin posts in Bitcon subs applies to XT, because it contains code that attempts, without consensus and despite contention, to create an alternative consensus. And that, by definition, is an altcoin.

Existing rules are enforced with a light hand. That is a feature not a bug. You don't get to complain in the same post about the rules not being enforced and being enforced. Roll Eyes

Your already unseemly self-pity is becoming nauseating. The sooner you Gavinistas are herded into /v/bitcoinxt to circlejerk yourselves the better.