There is no small group blocking any increase at all (not at least amongst the core developers) and there is going to be another meetup next month to further discussions about increasing the block size.

The XT shills just keep ignoring reality and shouting "we need to change and put Mike Hearn in charge ASAP" because that is what they have been told (or paid) to say.

Well - sorry guys - but your rubbish "urgent action required now" mantra is simply not working and most Bitcoin professionals and enthusiasts really don't want Mike Hearn to become the CEO of Bitcoin.

How much would you like to bet?

(my guess is not much)

If you'd like to "put your BTC where your mouth is" then I'll take on a bet with you (say 1 BTC which would need to be sent to a trusted escrow).

this conference is about SCALING bitcoin.

please stop confusing blocksize as an efficient way to improve bitcoin's scalability.

LOL are you that stupid?

This is how stupid some of the antiXT idiots can be.


Here is the hint, 44,000 btc was auctioned recently. The number of registers are much lower than expect. Its more reasonable to say, the btc was auctioned at much lower price than the exchange rate.

I use Coinbase and i never heard of this. XT has very little support in term of hashrate, as such i don't really get what the point of the whole discussion is. I don't see what Coinbase actually has to do with this? Coinbase has no hashrate so whatever their political agenda would be, it is completely irrelevant.

In the first place, having bigger block means less tx fee, so i don't see how this benefit any companies or miners.

I don't think referring to me as stupid or using such poisonous language is productive.  

I have read XT people here complaining about ad hominems yet you just used ad hominems against me, but that does not matter.

What I find disgraceful is that:

 ... The first and most poisonous ad hominems were by the XT supporters against many of the core developers and supporters, who have contributed so much to Bitcoin (before it even existed!), privacy and decentralisation. They done this often for no or little financial reward.  They deserve some courtesy and respect, (as does Gavin).





Anyway I don't find what you say convincing at all for many reasons, I wont go into all of them. The auction occurred after crash. The auction was known before and should have been priced in. The price is not known. The price is itself a reflection of sentiment and value that would be impacted by XT fork possibility.

Pointing out a pattern of pro-XT news leading to price crashes is relevant. Sorry if you dont like hearing it, you dont have to call me stupid.

Do you normally quote people out of context to imply they said the exact opposite of what they actually said?

Typical of corporations...  Like in everything else, they will ruin something and strangle everything we love about it.

There is a reason why smileys were invented.