Quote from: Blue Bear on August 26, 2017, 06:57:16 AM

In slushpool the strongest support goes to Bitcoin with only 10% signaling for for the fork.

Slush Pool is merely one pool out of dozens, and represents only around 7% of Bitcoin's total hashrate. This makes for a significantly unrepresentative sample (and a very selective one, if I may say so) to base a statistical analysis of fork support on.

Quote from: Blue Bear on August 26, 2017, 06:57:16 AM

I don't know but the source you are showing as evidence may only be getting their information from like minded people and not from the community as a whole.

The source that jtoomim cited (Coin Dance) gets its information from the BIP9 version bits and the coinbase text of every mined block. Around 91% of the last 1000 mined blocks have the "NYA" flag set in the coinbase text, indicating the blocks' miners' intention to support SegWit2x. This information is from the mined blocks themselves. You will find that Blockchain's stats line up with Coin Dance's.

Please do your research before making such (inaccurate) claims.

Quote from: Blue Bear on August 26, 2017, 06:57:16 AM

I think is a good move on your part to support both sides until you know which way the coin will land. I believe you may have blinders on though.

I agree that it is a good move on jtoomim's part to have included support for both Bitcoin Core and btc1 (and soon, for Bitcoin Cash). I'm grateful that he has (so far) not imposed his own personal opinions regarding Bitcoin forks on jtoomimnet's users.

However, jtoomim does not "have blinders on." He knows what he's doing; his work on P2Pool, at the very least, speaks for him. It is his personal opinion that the SegWit2x chain would be the dominant one, in very much the same way that it is your personal opinion that the Bitcoin Core chain would be the dominant one. He based his personal opinion on current block statistics, and you based your personal opinion on your own reasons. Nothing wrong with either; they're just different opinions. You would therefore do well to acknowledge that inasmuch as you're entitled to your own opinions, jtoomim is entitled to his as well.

Quote from: Blue Bear on August 26, 2017, 11:14:21 PM

Well I am not having any issues with it Jtoomim ...
of course I am a hardware guy and am running around 24 gb of ram on the system with the node on it ...
I am not running skimpy systems and don't intend to ...
but that being said I have my reasons for running v17 and am happy with my decision to do so ...

Please stop trying to intimidate everyone to jumping onto your code.

Just because you currently do not have issues with mainnet's memory consumption doesn't mean that others don't or won't. Not everyone has the luxury of having 24 GB of RAM to play with.

Anyway, to use your logic and your preference for unrepresentative samples, I myself was not, and am not, intimidated into running jtoomim's code. Even though I disagree with jtoomim regarding SegWit2x (I believe that the Bitcoin Core chain will prevail, and I intend to continue using and mining the Bitcoin Core chain), I willingly chose to run jtoomimnet because it runs more efficiently, its design is fairer to smaller miners like myself, and it generates more revenue per block than mainnet.

Therefore, inasmuch as you have your reasons for running v17 and you're happy with your decision to do so, I have my reasons for running v33 and I'm happy with my decision to do so.