In regards to Core attempting to censor Coinbase, you can follow the discussion here and decide for yourself what side you want to be on:
https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/1178I am happy that I am on the side of decentralization and freedom, which is what the original vision of Satoshi represented. Core is moving more towards the ideology of centralized control and authority, I do not think that Satoshi left just to allow some other group to exercise centralized authority and control over the protocol. Bitcoin is meant to be free, Cores opposition to the freedom of choice and their continued attempts at censorship only reveals the weakness of their own position.
Coinbase can go fuck itself. Look at the "freedom" they allow their customers. They're an example of the bullshit bitcoin was designed to get away from. This is best expressed in a quote from me:
Coinbase can go fuck itself.
The XT dead enders want to take away my freedom of choice to keep using Bitcoin by killing the real chain. Oh, but only if 75% of miners agree, I know. I've had enough of losing fucking elections. I signed up for bitcoin to get away from that shit.
Look: you have the freedom of choice to use XT or BU or whatever, but you can't demand to be listed on someone else's website. If you really want 101 to activate, you're even free to change the activation criteria by adding a checkpoint or switching to Scrypt. But the XT dead enders want more than that. They
insist on killing the real chain.
Well, spoiler alert: they won't. Even if they think they're about to, some of us will make sure they don't.
It's not a debate anymore. The debate is over.
1. I agree that coinbase is litteraly doing things without giving a real warning to the users (Like the XT change, i didn't got any kind of email about that and let's add even the fact that my btc address on coinbase is changing once a week or even twice so is a big problem for me and because of that i have to download the core wallet on my computer because clients trust isn't on their priority)
2. The main problem of XT and BIP101 is that they refuse to made the damm fork because otherwise they would be dead on arrival
3. Who can tell if the debate is really over or not? At the end the XT/BIP101 supporters will always find a way to continue this "debate" until the end of the world