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In Core, several committers and usually a few other people eyeball the changes; does XT have that attention yet? I don't know enough on the patched functionality to give a useful opinion, but I strongly believe people should look closely at what's getting in under the radar here.

    a bug fix

If "relay the first observed double spend" were generally accepted as a bug with a clean fix available, it'd be fixed in Core; superficial searching says it got reverted as problematic and contentious but I don't know the whole story, nor do I have an opinion on the change.

    two minor things

One is for Hearn's Lighthouse project, and also got merged, found buggy, and reverted. Without those eyeballs, would the lack of testing have been addressed and the bug in getutxos have been spotted before it was widely rolled out?

The other is adding back the bitnodes seed node that was removed for behaving in fishy ways, and adding a seed run by Mike that (unlike any others) gets to know the connecting node's IP address (which would never be accepted into Core).

Is XT basically going to be every patch Mike Hearn ever had refused by NACKs in Core? Where does that road take you as a user of XT?

Edit: Conspicuous by its absence from the README is that (AFAICT from the commit comment) incoming clearnet connections will kick a Tor peer off. /u/luke-jr pointed this out below. So don't just trust the description of diffs.

Bitcoin XTs Tor IP blacklist downloading system has significant privacy leaks. (http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/010379.html)

they hid a sophisticated program which logs your ip even if you're on proxy or tor, and they add IPs to a blacklist and whitelist. It's not all objective, they can add people at will too. This is much worse than I ever thought, they can control every bitcoin user if they got their fork. It would end bitcoin as we know it. It's a horrible and disgusting abuse of Bitcoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1156489.0

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByLnBVYGlyDsT25MNExSUDB2NTA/view?usp=sharing

Heaven help us, Mike Hearn is a "DICK-tator"

Thank goodness for altcoins.

Bitcoin XTs Tor IP blacklist downloading system has significant privacy leaks. (http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/010379.html)

they hid a sophisticated program which logs your ip even if you're on proxy or tor, and they add IPs to a blacklist and whitelist. It's not all objective, they can add people at will too. This is much worse than I ever thought, they can control every bitcoin user if they got their fork. It would end bitcoin as we know it. It's a horrible and disgusting abuse of Bitcoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1156489.0

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByLnBVYGlyDsT25MNExSUDB2NTA/view?usp=sharing

Bitcoin XT is an altcoin, sweetie.

No, it is one of several clients that are mining the bitcoin blockchain. First bitcoin block mined already.

Mike Hearn has this military tone and way of speaking, that undoubtly adds to any suspicion of him working for a three letter agency.

If either Gavin or Hearn cared about Bitcoin, they would not risk a hard fork in such a disruptive manner while manipulating the uneducated masses with rhetorics. Their alterior motives shine through every of their actions. Whoever they work for wants complete control over Bitcoin's code base, if you support XT then you will be part of Bitcoin's demise.

i support XT because i like free shit and Gavin's "somewhat reckless approach, which in the name of advancement shatters existing structures, fragments the community, and spins the ecosystem into chaos. (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h9cq4/its_time_for_a_break_about_the_recent_mess/cu6udfe)"

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