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Re: Bitcoin XT - Officially #REKT (also goes for BIP101 fraud)
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VeritasSapere
on 23/10/2015, 14:08:16 UTC
It seems like you are just appropriating the term in order to use it to construct this false narrative. Furthermore according to this "wiki" that you have linked the definition of an altcoin is that it is incompatible with the main Bitcoin blockchain. Therefore according to that "wikis" definition of an altcoin Bitcoin XT is not an altcoin. Therefore this wiki is wrong, it is even self evident based on their own enclosed reasoning.

If the definition of an altcoin is not that it is incompatible with the main Bitcoin blockchain, please enlighten us with your definition of an altcoin instead. Then we can apply that definition to Bitcoin XT and see if it is consistent.

There is no established definition of what an altcoin is.

Currently the discussion is dominated by:

- Core devs
- The wiki
- The dev mailing list
- Theymos' forums and reddit subs

They all basically agree.

vs

- Hearndresen and their loyalist skeleton crew

Your call. I made mine.
So you are refusing to define a word that you are using to smear Bitcoin XT. I suppose if you refuse to define the word that you are using it is impossible to prove you wrong. Keep in mind however that if you make an argument that can not be disproved that such an argument is most definitely not based on reason or any type of sound argumentation whatsoever.

As for the rest of your argument it actually just comes down to an appeal to authority and an appeal to the majority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum