Quote from: Xian01 on November 06, 2015, 05:33:08 PM

Quote from: tarsua on November 05, 2015, 10:34:43 PM

I'll have no problem if he bans coinbase, i've always thought that coinbase was cancerous to bitcoin

I'm curious about why you feel this way; Coinbase has been my primary exchange for some time now.

Mine also. So what? They play ball with corp/gov and are thus able to provide relatively smooth service. That is one of the reasons I use them. The other main reason being that I could more practically leverage the U.S. judicial system to reconcile any issues that may crop up.

The fact that Coinbase is chummy with the mainstream financial sector does not in any way mean that they are protagonists for the causes of Bitcoin, or at least to the aspects of Bitcoin that appeal to me personally. In fact it is just the opposite. I fully expect that they will do their part to bring the solution under control of corp/gov power structures, and I expect that they will be handsomely rewarded for doing so.

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In a feeble attempt to bring this thing back on-topic, I will say that no matter what theymos's personal views, there are fairly strong rational reasons to consider XT to be an 'alt' (as well as a hostile takeover attempt.) His actions wrt Coinbase and their efforts to foster XT are far closer to 'consistent' than to 'insane'.