So then I would pose the question if the extra "DDOS prevention/blacklist/mapping" functionality wasn't coded into XT, would people be against a larger blocksize? How does one expect to scale with 7 tx's/sec?? Lightning network... ok... it's still a whitepaper concept. I'm so tired of hearing the "purity" of bitcoin is getting tarnished with a potential block change when Satoshi himself said it was a temporary measure to prevent spam and allow the network to grow in its infancy. It wasn't mean to be permanent.
This all goes back to why I believe Dash is a better bitcoin:
-Faster confirms (2.5m vs 10m)
-Block reward's tied to difficulty to incentivize miners to mine when diff drops
-Every block diff retarget to prevent arbitrary periods of hash lost (hello 2 week recalc) and prolonged time between blocks
-Blockchain voting/funding to continue development and grow the project vs relying solely on donations
-InstantX (tested at 100 tx's/sec)
-Darksend (while still quirky, it's getting better and adds a level of obfuscation vs sending coins to tumblers)
-Incentived full nodes (because masternodes get paid, there is incentive to run a full node)
-Masternode income for proof of service
I'd personally love to see an n-block size limit implemented into Dash where the size limit is determined by the average size of each block n blocks ago (n to be determined). So if blocksize needs to grow, it will grow over time.