Re: Bitcoin XT has code which downloads your IP address to facilitate blacklisting
As a troll I admire how, upon being proven completely wrong at present, you unhesitatingly and unflinchingly move the goalposts from ~now to Jan '16.
Given the utter failure of XT/101, do you still thing anyone will GAS about them 3 months from now?
I said I'd be a good loser if XT won. Are you going to likewise be a good sport now that XT/101 has been #R3KT and tossed into the rubbish tip of history?
I'm fine with whatever solution wins - whether it's 1MB 4evah, BIP100 or BIP101 or BIPxxx - I've said all along that I'll go with whatever the economic supermajority chooses. My only grudge that I don't see letting go anytime soon is Theymos' heavy handed approach to moderation, but I'll admit - I'm still here on bitcointalk, I still download software from bitcoin.org and I hit /r/bitcoin so that just shows that the network effect is not inconsiderable.
Knock it off with the FUD. ~9 exchanges/merchants signed on for BIP101 support and some miners who have been DDoSed supported BIP101 as well, namely Slush and P2P. You know very well that big blocks are far from being decided.
I think that the next interesting advancement is whether or not merchants want BIP101 vs BIP100 or if they just want consensus & big blocks and don't care how it happens.
I think that the next interesting advancement is whether or not merchants want BIP101 vs BIP100 or if they just want consensus & big blocks and don't care how it happens.
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So much for my hope you would not be a sore loser.
Nobody Cares® that Hearn's Gang of Nine made supportive noises about 101. It's not like they're going to accept XTcoins!
Fuck Circle, Goldman, and all the rest of those wannabe gatekeepers. They and the rest of you Gavinistas are going to have to deal with the fact the socioeconomic majority favors BIP100, which is functionally a vote for Don't-Do-Anything-Anytime-SoonTM.
Your sense of false urgency had a shelf life of Two Weeks. Too bad the Stress Tests backfired by conclusively demonstrating Bitcoin will function as it was designed to, that is with an ambient backlog due to cosmic background spam, regulated by fee markets.
So much for my hope you would not be a sore loser.
Nobody Cares® that Hearn's Gang of Nine made supportive noises about 101. It's not like they're going to accept XTcoins!
Fuck Circle, Goldman, and all the rest of those wannabe gatekeepers. They and the rest of you Gavinistas are going to have to deal with the fact the socioeconomic majority favors BIP100, which is functionally a vote for Don't-Do-Anything-Anytime-SoonTM.
Your sense of false urgency had a shelf life of Two Weeks. Too bad the Stress Tests backfired by conclusively demonstrating Bitcoin will function as it was designed to, that is with an ambient backlog due to cosmic background spam, regulated by fee markets.
I don't think this is over yet. BIP100 doesn't have consensus (or finalized code). BIP101 could be tweaked with more conservative numbers. We could still be arguing about bigger block BIPxxx a year or two for now. I also don't think XT is pointless. There will be more than one version of consensus software that runs bitcoin and that's a good thing.