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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin XT - Officially #REKT (also goes for BIP101 fraud)
by
VeritasSapere
on 17/11/2015, 17:00:41 UTC
More then 75% of the mining power supports an increase in the blocksize today.
More than ~95% of the userbase support blocksize increases (when needed). Just not your favoured plan. The one that you keep trying to push on everyone, day after day, month after month.
Just to be clear BIP101 is not necessarily my favorite proposal, it is just the only proposal which has been implemented so far. I would support BIP100 or BIP103 as well when implemented, especially if that means we can reach a higher level of consensus. I know you like to depict me as being some sort of XT fanatic but that is simply just not true. I support an increase in the blocksize and I support having multiple implementations so that the community can decide for themselves what they think is the best solution, which would be better then just blindly accepting whatever Core hands down to us.
I depict you as an XT subversive, which is very different to "fanatic". Conveniently for my argument, you proved the subversive component when you used subversion to misrepresent my position. The irony.

Despite the fact that you claim support of other scaling solutions, why do you only ever talk about using the blocksize to achieve it, and despite all this, why do you so frequently end up using the expression "...and that's why I support XT"? It's like your catchphrase.
I do not consider the lighting network and side chains to be an alternative to increasing the blocksize. Since transacting on these type of third parties does not have the same advantages as transacting on the Bitcoin blockchain directly, we have already discussed this however so you should already know this about my position.

Furthermore to correct you I often state that I support BIP101, not XT. I do run XT nodes myself however though it is worth pointing out that supporting BIP101 is not the same as supporting XT, since it is possible to run Core with a BIP101 patch. Soon we will also have Bitcoin unlimited as well which will be supporting both BIP100 and BIP101 depending on how the miners vote approaching January.