january, where is the source of this, would you mind writing it ? because i thought it was around 1 march

It's disturbing how Gavin is not posting to the community at all, he's doing all this in silence.

XT must prevail or Bitcoin will die.  It is that simple.  

The Blockchain Technology Cat is out of the bag.  Blockchain technology is the financial industry darling.  Billions of Dollars are being invested.  They've seen the beauty of blockchain and it is here to stay.  They want the ledger control.  And they will get it.  It was written into the plan and the stars from the beginning and anyone who thinks differently is naive.  It was PLANNED all along.  "Satoshi" set it up.  Do you think it is an accident that the renegade badboy image of Bitcoin came about by accident?  No, it was introduced through the channels it was intentionally.  The techies ate it up, and the criminal element embraced it.  And through them the beauty of it found a showcase which others eventually noticed.   It was simply a way to get it accepted by the masses, and get the attention of the Fiat guys.

But these Fiat guys want the Ledger control, and they want to expand capabilities, and that will require bigger blocks.  They will NOT let go of what they have found.

NOW - the path of least resistance is to keep Bitcoin.  It already has acceptance.  It has a broad dispersion throughout the global public.   It has a decent infrastructure buildout.  The odds are that Bitcoin gets through the XT hurdle and becomes the standard - AND THE FIAT GOVERNORS WILL CONTROL THE LEDGERS.

OR.... XT will fail through bickering.  In which case the Fiat guys will pick a new "Fiat Bitcoin" to run their Blockhain Ledger, and bitcoin will slowly die as they use all their tools to force everyone into what they create and replace Bitcoin with - AND THE FIAT GOVERNORS WILL CONTROL THE LEDGERS.

Either way they will win.  One way they win bigger.  

Bitcoin will in the end prevail with an XT patch I believe.  And that will be in a way a win for the people.  But make no mistake - nothing will stop "THEM" from controlling the Ledger eventually.  And it was planned that way from the start.

Satoshi isn't who/what you think.

Peace, -d

its fake dude if satoshi is still alive and make a return he wouldn't do it this way.  Also he would be smart to know that nobody is going to believe him without a signed key. 

Not a smart move. With billions of dollars invested in bitcoin and many companies built on it, bitcoin isnt going away simply because of some block size discussion.

Now is actually a buying opportunity. After the dust settles the price is going up.

Or you can do what I'm doing and just hodling to see where the split takes us.

Can someone link me to thread which explains this "XT" Thing, I clearly dont understand what the situation is going in bitcoin technical world. What is bitcoin XT? Is it for faster or bigger transactions? I cant understand a bit can someone explain or link me to where get started about this situation?

Don't worry this debate is intra community. New people buying bitcoin don't even know about XT and block size.

Minimum benefits, lots of potential damages. XT only worsen the situation of bitcoin. Investors are panicking now because of the "split" which is just unnecessary. Idk why they are pushing bigger block size when in fact 1mb is just right in this current times. What's the most plausible explanation why they are pushing higher block size?

9% of XT nodes doesn't really matter. Did XT mine any blocks ?

Stress testing at least proved one thing: Even the blocks are all full, majority of users will not be affected. Blocksize should only be changed when there is a REAL problem, not by fear and imagination

Human are all adaptive, when banks closed during weekends, they don't change bank, but wait for it to open on Monday, and reduce their transaction frequency

False! Bigger blocks = more transactions = more fees!

That means on average, it also means that at some times during the day, blocks are constantly full and the queue gets long, exactly when people need it the most. If you want the blocks to be full, then you can lengthen the queue to weeks (just like regular banks). You don't want to build a highway that needs to be 100% filled with stationary cars before you decide to put more lanes in it.

False! Free transactions have a pre-allocated spot in each block. They will still be allowed under normal settings, even with high fees.

False! If the blocks are full, fees grow exponentially to obscene levels, such as "I just paid 1 BTC fee to send my other BTC to an exchange to dump this shit, because everyone else paid 1 BTC fee!".

Too many chefs, not enough cooks. They each think that their idea is the best and other ideas are shit. What if they never reach consensus? This shit is being discussed for over 2 years, the actual block usage increased steadily, and now needs to magically be capped at some random number, with no plan to plan for an increase (yes, there is no plan for a plan, they just push the decision for later).

It also amazes me that NOBODY is capable of understanding the social, economical, technological, networking and computational aspects of this change, as a whole and everyone conveniently ignores some aspects to push his propaganda, such as this example list of false reasons to not prepare for an increase in the block size.