XT was a huge success in helping a proper debate blossom. Whether it becomes widely used as a client doesn't really matter.
There has been a ongoing "proper debate" about scaling Bitcoin for the last five years.
...and in five years no scalability got accomplished.
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XT only succeeded in turning that debate into a civil war, at the cost of ~$1,000,000,000 of our market cap.
takes two sides to have a war. couldn't have been one unless a huge number of people felt there was merit to their position.
The market cap dropped like a rock the instant Gavin confirmed the coup had his full support.
In five years, Bitcoin has been scaled from nothing to 1MB. You silly hyper-entitled children have no idea how hard that was, and just demand more in an 'are we at the moon yet' refrain.
A civil war can be started by one belligerent party, whether or not the other is aggressive. (Yes, I know you Gavinistas redefined doing nothing as doing something.
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