Re: Bitcoin XT has code which downloads your IP address to facilitate blacklisting
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.
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.
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.
We already had "more than one version of consensus software that runs bitcoin" so please spare us the empty platitudes.
I already mentioned B100 doesn't have finalized code, and support for it can thus reasonably be interpreted as a giant FUCK YOU to B101.
XT's 15 minutes of fame are over. Nobody will ever jump on a Gavin/Heam bandwagon again after such a spectacular failure.
They destroyed $1 billion of our market cap. And you Gavinistas enabled them with your greedy, impatient, simpleminded 'zomg just change 1mb to 8mb and then moon' nonsense and ungrateful, toxic 'zomg szabo/back/thermos >> worse than hitler' social engineering.
Of course Bitcoin will continue, thanks to the Scaling workshops and Blockstream's amazing innovations.
On balance, I believe $1 billion is a small price to pay to (nearly) rid Bitcoin of those who fundamentally lack comprehension (or even dim awareness) of cypherpunk/extropian motivations/methods/goals.
