[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core versus XT observations

2015-08-19 Thread Ken Friece via bitcoin-dev
1.) Most people are running XT as a vote for bigger blocks and not because they specifically support BIP101. If Core supported bigger blocks, most XT users would switch back to Core and XT would die. 2.) In this high stakes game of poker, XT just went all in, but Core still has the far better hand

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT 0.11A

2015-08-15 Thread Ken Friece via bitcoin-dev
ake was that Mike is clearly >> misrepresenting the views of a great number of people who have deep, >> intimate knowledge of how things work and are almost certainly not >> primarily motivated by their own potential for profits. >> >> On Aug 15, 2015, at 4:04 PM, Ken

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT 0.11A

2015-08-15 Thread Ken Friece via bitcoin-dev
gt; " if you're so fond of micro payment channels, why aren't you working on > them?" And he was right! So we looked around and found the best proposal > and funded it. > On Aug 15, 2015 3:28 PM, "Ken Friece via bitcoin-dev" < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfound

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT 0.11A

2015-08-15 Thread Ken Friece via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Eric Lombrozo wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2015, at 3:01 PM, Ken Friece via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > What are you so afraid of, Eric? If Mike's fork is successful, consensus > is reached around larger b

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT 0.11A

2015-08-15 Thread Ken Friece via bitcoin-dev
What are you so afraid of, Eric? If Mike's fork is successful, consensus is reached around larger blocks. If it is rejected, the status quo will remain for now. Network consensus, NOT CORE DEVELOPER CONSENSUS, is the only thing that matters, and those that go against network consensus will be sever

[bitcoin-dev] Analysis paralysis and the blocksize debate

2015-08-06 Thread Ken Friece via bitcoin-dev
I am a long time Bitcoin user, miner, investor, full node operator, and distributed real-time system software engineer. Out of the all currently proposed blocksize increase solutions, I support BIP101 (or something like it) and find the current blocksize debate very frustrating, so I will try to s