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August 26, 2015, 06:35:27 PM

Here's what happened.

Gavin pulled numbers out of his ass based on faulty tests (remember 20MB first?) then when core devs made it clear they wouldn't agree with his proposal dude ran home crying to Mama Hearn and they both decided to bypass core decision making process on the pretence of urgency.

The consensus was that current limit should not be touched under more rigorous testing was done to understand better the implications and unintended consequences of such a decision. Gavin couldn't convince anyone since instead of supporting his proposal w/ more technical material Gavin and Mike went full retard political and steered the ignorant masses into the mess you are witnessing.

That's if you actually believe that Gavin & Mike are not government agents trying to break Bitcoin which a good case can be made for..
So you break Bitcoin by giving choice to the economy to use one code or another?

It's like saying the first altcoin was an attempt to break Bitcoin. If Bitcoin cannot survive these kind of things it doesn't deserve all the hope we put in it. Choice is good, something that has to be a Monopoly to survive is just not worth the attention.

They made it clear to the Blockstream's guys that they don't control the thing, I think that was needful since these guys had started to gain too much confidence.
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It was never about "the Blockstream" guys. That's just an invention trolls come up with when all other arguments fail. There's a gang of reputable, technical people opposing Gavin.

The XT coup was never about choice. It was political propaganda to try and create a schism fork by dividing consensus by way of steering the ignorant masses using fallacious arguments.