That's if you actually believe that Gavin & Mike are not government agents trying to break Bitcoin which a good case can be made for..
It seems more likely the government agents are on the other side if anything
http://pastebin.com/4BcycXUu"> Just so you know this stuff about Tor has me worried... Please don't make this
> public, but my day job involves intelligence, and I'm in a relatively high
> position. You know, I went into the job years ago with very different thoughts
> about it than I do now. The last, well, decade really has changed a lot of
> minds in this field, in totally different ways. Myself I am on the side of
> Snowden and Assange, but... lets just say when you have a family your
> willingness to be a martyr diminishes."
Holy shit. CRIPPLECOINERS ARE INFILTRATED BY GOV'T INTELLIGENCEThat explains why they are opposed to ANY method that can practically scale the network. Not just XT. Not just block size. anything. I've been a die hard supporter of bitcoin since 2011, but I'm not going to dump another penny into supporting this project if these assholes get their way.