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Blazr:
Quote from: kingcolex on August 16, 2015, 08:28:52 AM
This seems like a sort of propaganda there is no tricks happening from Gavin, we need to go ahead and fork to increase block size, this has been agreed by everyone. The only issue is how.
I think we should do it the same way we did it the last 2 times we had to change the blocksize. People seem to forget we changed this before and it wasn't nearly as controversial of a change.
LiteCoinGuy:
Bitcoin XT is a patch set on top of Bitcoin Core, with a focus on upgrades to the peer to peer protocol. By running it you can opt in to providing the Bitcoin network with additional services beyond what Bitcoin Core provides.
Currently it contains the following additional changes:
+Support for larger blocks. XT has support for BIP 101 by Gavin Andresen, which schedules an increase from the one megabyte limit Bitcoin is now hitting.
+Relaying of double spends. Bitcoin Core will simply drop unconfirmed transactions that double spend other unconfirmed transactions, forcing merchants who want to know about them to connect to thousands of nodes in the hope of spotting them. This is unreliable, wastes resources and isn't feasible on mobile devices. Bitcoin XT incorporates work by Tom Harding and Gavin Andresen that relays the first observed double spend of a transaction. Additionally, it will highlight it in red in the user interface. Other wallets also have the opportunity to use the new information to alert the user that there is a fraud attempt against them.
+Support for querying the UTXO set given an outpoint. This is useful for apps that use partial transactions, such as the Lighthouse crowdfunding app. The feature allows a client to check that a partial SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY transaction is correctly signed and by querying multiple nodes, build up some confidence that the output is not already spent.
+DNS seed changes: bitseed.xf2.org is removed as it no longer works, and seeds from Addy Yeow and Mike Hearn are (re)added to increase seed diversity and redundancy.
tl;dr it's just Bitcoin Core but with ability to have larger blocks, a bug fix, and two minor things that are useful for app developers.
Blazr:
Quote from: kingcolex on August 16, 2015, 08:37:45 AM
Quote from: Blazr on August 16, 2015, 08:32:45 AM
Quote from: kingcolex on August 16, 2015, 08:28:52 AM
This seems like a sort of propaganda there is no tricks happening from Gavin, we need to go ahead and fork to increase block size, this has been agreed by everyone. The only issue is how.
I think we should do it the same way we did it the last 2 times we had to change the blocksize. People seem to forget we changed this before and it wasn't nearly as controversial of a change.
Yeah because Bitcoin wasn't nearly as big or nearly as worth as much that and Satoshi was at the helm and everyone trusted him. Don't forget Satoshi trust Gavin enough to give him the emergency keys, even though everyone thinks he is an enemy.
The second time it was changed it was done under Gavin, Satoshi wasn't around. Gavin just picked 1MB blocks and nobody complained. Nobody really cared, I remember when it happened clearly.
Yes of course Satoshi didn't just give him the alert keys, Gavin was appointed lead developer of Bitcoin Core by Satoshi - he gave him commit access to the Bitcoin Core source code repository,
The good news is everyone knows drama is like rocket fuel for Bitcoin so hopefully we have enough fuel to hit the moon :D
LiteCoinGuy:
the 1 MB blocksize was a temporary fix and now 3 devs are holding bitcoin back :D
Should Bitcoin grow, even if the network changes its structure as a result?
The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server. The design supports letting users just be users.
— Satoshi Nakamoto, July 2010
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