If you look at those people behind Bitcoin Unlimited you will see they are all self serving people only looking to benefit themselves and again most of them have moved into other coins or the other. They only realise that Bitcoin is the real deal and want to turn it into their baby. Bitcoin Core team have their own issues but you can still see genuineness in their intentions
Bitcoin Unlimited is a relatively easy concept. Anyone could code it.. so you don't really need a dedicated dev team. It's the idea that matters.
A BU node has 2 parameters that the miner can specify.
'max-build-size' and 'see-if-it-works-size'. 'see-if-it-works-size' is the bigger and it is meant to see if the rest of the network will accept a block before you do as well.
When they receive a block they check the size and..
1) If the size is less than or equal to the 'max-block-size' they have specified for themselves, they start building on it AND forward it to the network.
2) If the size is greater than their 'max-build size' but LESS than the 'see-if-it-works-size' they have specified for themselves, they ONLY forward it to the network (but don't build on it - until a majority of the network is working on it).
3) If it is more than both the 'max-build-size' and the 'see-if-it-works-size' they don't build AND don't forward it (ignore it completely).
That's it. (basically)
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Do I support it.. almost. I like the idea of a decentralised mechanism for determining the block size, but this way may cause issues.. can we be trusted to NOT fuck this up.. ?
(And you have to be pretty bad ass to tell #GMAX to stick it.)
