The "controversy" is fascinating to observe from a social/political standpoint -- watching human
beings work out their issues. From a technical/economic standpoint it's just a matter of waiting to
see how it turns out and adjusting accordingly. The business standpoint falls under
social/political, as there will be losers and winners, and all the business interests are jockeying
for their investments, and it seems some personalities are jockeying their ego interests.

As the developer of a paid messaging system that is denominated in Bitcoin, I don't have a horse in
this race because, thanks to the technical brilliance of the bitcoin system, it is a fairly trivial
matter to re-program my system for any crypto-currency (Bitcoin, BitcoinXT, Litecoin, Dogecoin,
whatever) that satisfies my technical/business needs, which includes widespread adoption and ready
exchange services with the fiat currencies.

Their are certainly "malevolent powers" engaged in the controversy, as they are engaged in
everything, and the malevolent powers will fork right along with the code.

Jim Bursch
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On 9/8/2015 3:47 PM, veleiro wrote:
> Ill go ahead and help him out here:
>
> "[Gavin] talks about Bitcoin as a payments-innovation, he developed the
> payments protocol, and now he’s pushing to increase the blocksize limit
> which would raise the maximum number of transactions on the network at
> the cost of even further centralization of mining. That is in effect in
> direct opposition to the idea of Bitcoin as a decentralized, private and
> uncensored system... But if we keep the blocksize limited people can
> always use Bitcoin for payments, they’d just have to pay a bigger fee.
> This doesn’t need to be a problem, in particular for the functionality
> of Bitcoin as an instrument to settle debts... The way banks work today
> is not that every transaction done between two parties is sent directly
> from one bank account to the other. Instead, they add up all
> transactions between the different banks, and settle the debts at the
> end of the day. "
> (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/17005/bitcoin-technology-worth-nothing-interview-dark-wallet-front-man-amir-taaki/)
>
> Bitcoin is already centralized enough. Just because more are transacting
> on the blockchain with their coffees doesnt mean the Bitcoin should bend
> to their lifestyle.
>
>
>
> Devon Read:
>> Not yet or not at all?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday Sep 8, 2015 at 13:33, Amir Taaki <genjix@???>, wrote:no
>>
>> sickpig@???:
>>> thanks for the frank reply.
>>>
>>> leaving aside the xt saga and maneuvering, do you think that some form of
>>> increase of the max block size is needed?
>>>
>>> On 8 Sep 2015 22:04, "Amir Taaki" <genjix@???> wrote:
>>>> Bitcoin XT is a conspiracy being pushed by malevolent powers.
>>>>
>>>> sickpig@???:
>>>>> Hi Amir, all
>>>>>
>>>>> sorry for being OT and hijacking the thread, but I would be interested
>>> in
>>>>> knowing what's your take on the max block size debate?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Amir Taaki <genjix@???> wrote:
>>>>>> cody,
>>>>>> http://shitco.in/2015/08/19/the-bitcoin-xt-trojan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cody R Wilson:
>>>>>>> Explain the politics to me here.
>>>>>>> On Sep 7, 2015 8:18 PM, "Amir Taaki" <genjix@???> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://twitter.com/btcfoundation/status/639856958317707264
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Today’s shoutout is to @Blockstream who has funded more core dev than
>>>>>>>> anyone, including us. Their knowledge & depth is extraordinary.
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