Quote from: knight22 on August 18, 2015, 03:30:06 AM

There is an unnecessary ongoing war and fear mongering over the community about bitcoinXT. What people need to realize is that the only thing that will lead to a majority of honest node switching to bitcoinXT is a bloat in the blockchain itself where businesses won't be able to process the transactions they need due to a fail of bitcoin core to deliver proper scaling on time. BitcoinXT is just a fall back plan in case of a bitcoin core failure and will happen naturally if there is a need in the market. If bitcoin core delivers then nothing will happen. I don't see the point of so much fear mongering over hard forking. THERE IS AN ECONOMIC INCENTIVE TO REACH CONSENSUS NO MATTER THE OUTCOME. Releasing the code in the wild might not be pleasing some but it relieved the stress of many people about their concerns over a bitcoin core failure. If that concern reaches consensus then be it!

BitcoinXT might be a fall back plan but those in charge look like they want it to succeed as the 'main' bitcoin.

Quote from: meono on August 18, 2015, 03:36:59 AM

Let me quote one of the "good guys", so the sheeps can digest

Quote from: Peter Todd on January 23, 2014, 08:59:06 PM

Bitcoin is a decentralized system.

If you don't like the work Mike does, don't use it! If you don't like the direction he's going with that work, write some code yourself that goes in a different direction. If you don't like where "core" Bitcoin client development is "going", go to http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin and hit the "Fork" button and convince other people to join your development effort.

You people seriously misunderstand how Bitcoin works...

I think its very relevant to the topic here. Notice the date of that quote,

I think it's a bit different if I write some code compared to the devs or people who have influence in the bitcoin community and I think most of the problem is from the confusing about what is actually happening.

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