I wouldn't use it, it's known buggy.
Older versions shouldn't work any better on Windows XP. I'm not aware of us removing anything needed to make XP work, XP is unsupported because it is buggy, insecure, and abandoned by microsoft. Bitcoin developers got tired of wasting their time on bug reports from XP users which were due to bugs in XP.
as XP is not supported
can dev's also now come to the conclusion that bitcoins conservatism should now move forward to hardware post 2006(post xp era) and not keep harping on that delays in scaling is due to wanting to be compatible with such old hardware and old internet speeds previous to 2006
infact as vista is not supported by microsoft, thus going by gmaxwells lenience to drop support for operating systems not supported by microsoft
can dev's also now come to the conclusion that bitcoins conservatism should now move forward to hardware post 2009(post vista era) and not keep harping on that delays in scaling is due to wanting to be compatible with such old hardware and old internet speeds previous to 2009
we really need to get moving passed the pre millenium mindset of
kodak: "digital media wont scale because floppy disks are 1.44mb"
and move passed the propaganda of 4mb base block = servers
because a 256gb storage media is the size of a thumbnail
and we need to move passed the propaganda of terrabytes of data by midnight.
a 4tb hard drive only costs a single person one weeks groceries
at 4mb block FULL UTILITY (when conservatism finally relinquishes and removes the witness scale factor to allow full legacy utility)
4mb blocks=UPTO 208gb a year = upto 20 years to fill a 4tb hard drive
as for internet speeds.
even things like facetime(both up/down load) want 1.2mbps so lets not be playing pre millenial games of dialup.
even africa, russia, and korea have good internet
we are in the fibre era not the dialup era
its time to put the conservative excuses aside when doesnt fit the narrative of 'blockchains cant scale and bank-esq factory vaults(co-signed non blockchain, non audited payments of non byzantine generals nodes) are told to be the future. especially when the network offering such niche service is not even a network dedicated only as a bitcoin sole only use feature. but designed as a neutral network for multiple coins meaning less people will want to use bitcoin if other networks offer something better.
if you care for the bitcoin network more than the commercial service offering that will become LN factories watchdogging users channels. then atleast start innovating bitcoins onchain scaling. beyond 7tx/s. and do it BEFORE introducing more bloating smart contract features.
in short atleast get rid of the witness scale factor so that the 4mb is fully utilisable by both segwit and legacy transactions.
after all how many pools and users are using older nodes these days. even this topic is proving that versions 0.11 are outdated and buggy
