Bitcoin XT Discussion: “Have Wallets Refuse To Send To Known-Non-Compliant Wallets”
Trouble is brewing in the world of Bitcoin and digital currencies now that wallet provider and exchange platform Coinbase started running the Bitcoin XT client as part of their production servers. As many of you are well aware, Bitcoin XT is considered a fork of Bitcoin Core and was launched to address the upcoming block size debate issue. Another discussion has spawned forth from this decision, even though it was announced weeks ago. Putting all egos aside for a minute – quite a monumental task in the Bitcoin world, mind you – Bitcoin XT is listed as a “hard fork” of Bitcoin. As a result,....
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