Re: Bitcoin XT - Officially #REKT (also goes for BIP101 fraud)
and you know what? miners and nodes didn't support his fork. boo hoo. he proved just how decentralized bitcoin development is -- no one controls the code -- and even temporarily garnered some limited support for his fork. but it failed. and the idea that it could achieve 75% hashing power at this point is laughable. if nodes and miners do not support alternative versions, that is not evidence to say that "centralization of development" exists. it only says that unpopular versions are unpopular.
As to miners, the pool that I tried was DDoS'd and had to stop mining BIP101 blocks. As to nodes the XT node that I was running was DDoS'd. I am no longer running a full bitcoin node.
Do you believe that how bitcoin works should be controlled by terrorist attacks? Do you support "consensus" based on violence and fear?
99% of people sufficiently privileged to run a full node have never experienced a single moment of "violence and fear" much less a "terrorist attack."
Please stop painting yourself with the victimology brush. It's quite unseemly.
It is the pinnacle of hilarity that your stupid XT pool/node got hit with tungsten/platinum space rods dropped from orbit.
You expected what, a parade in your honor? Glory? Gratitude?
Humor is the difference between the expected and the actual. So when you Gavinistas' "brave" attempted defections achieved nothing but anguish, the lulzometer got pegged at max output.
You really thought BTC's existing multi-billion-dollar socioeconomic consensus would just let you attack their system without consequences?
ZOMG, you are such an idiot. You should sue your teachers and parents for raising a supremely clueless snowflake of unprecedented brittleness.
Of course the XT putsch got stomped into the ground. Bitcoin would have failed long ago if a couple of hosers from Sand Hill Road and Ft. Meade could hijack the project.
If XT can't survive a bit of UDP funs, it is not anti-fragile and thus unworthy to ascend to Bitcoin's golden throne.
