I was at the scaling btc conference last weekend. Gavin was visibly
socially shunned.

I believe steps of compromise are now taking place since he felt powerless
without his reddit army to shill for him. Sometimes it takes an "irl" wake
up call for a egotist to see his throne is made of glass.
On Sep 14, 2015 4:43 AM, "odinn" <odinn.cyberguerrilla@???> wrote:

> > Hello,
>
> I have been very anti-XT for reasons which are obvious if you look at
> the bitcoin-development list archive. No need to rehash it here.
>
> As for whether some form of increase of the max block size is needed,
>
> Well before June of 2015 I had been pretty vocal about this kind of
> thing, asking questions regularly about related matter. In June of
> 2015 I made a post about it on twitlonger -
> http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1smkanp - which got the attention of
> Adam Back:
>
> https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/608920099609817088
>
> In my twitlonger post, and in some of my posts on bitcoin-development,
> I encouraged people to take a closer look at and possibly support
> Cameron Garnham's idea of dynamic block size adjustment, which was
> designed completely as a soft-fork to be implemented without
> changing any client code. However, this ultimately didn't get much
> traction and technical issues were raised against it. I had suggested
> that BIP 100 would be a superior alternative to BIP 101, if people
> were going to be considering those two (though there are many to pick
> from - see: http://bipsxdevs.azurewebsites.net/
>
> Currently, when we look at the ideas which have early support in the
> preliminary votes being made, we see:
>
> https://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/block_size_votes/7d?c=block_size_vot
> es&r=hour&t=bar
>
> http://bitcoinstats.com/network/votes/
>
> You'll note that BIP 101 has literally almost zero support - just 1
> block from slush (despite letters and pleas from industry who would
> love for it to be supported by the broader community along with XT).
> Note also that BIP 100 dominates in the field of BIPS measured by the
> graph of things.
>
> Cheers,
>
> O
>
>
>
> Amir Taaki:
> > 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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