To be fair ... The reality distortion field was high within their community because outside trolls and agent provocateurs where actively supporting Bitcoin Classic to create division in our community and because adopting that implementation would lead to centralization and dis-empower all the "evil" crypt-anarchists and cipher-punks.

Take for example this well known troll/Buttcoiner actively supporting Classic-

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/44nc78/gavin_andresen_stubbornly_refuses_to_call_it/czrdrvy

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/446hth/americanbanker_blockchain_will_make_banks_more/czpcz7b

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/446hth/americanbanker_blockchain_will_make_banks_more/czo6kmf


We shouldn't hold any grudges against most Classic supporters and welcome them back in as our temporarily lost brothers in an act of solidarity.


I welcome other payment channel options and will happily run multiple versions of payment channels. The only cat fight should be in market competition with deploying more payment channel nodes instead of politics. Thankfully with Segwit, Circle/Bitpay/Coinbase can create their own payment channels as well instead of foolishly believing their mempool algo makes 0conf txs secure.