Discussion of Bitcoin-XT Banned from Bitcoin Subreddit
In a move which has so far received apparently almost universal denouncement, Bitcoin community kingpin Michael Marquardt, who exerts significant control over Bitcointalk and the Bitcoin subreddit, has taken initiative to ban all discussion of Bitcoin-XT or "contentious hard forks" of Bitcoin Core. Also read: BitcoinTalk Staff Quietly Bans People for Speaking Out Against Them. While Marquardt and others have repeatedly used ninjitsu logic to justify that Bitcoin-XT is in fact not Bitcoin, the truth of the matter is that the only fundamental difference between Mike Hearn's Bitcoin-XT is the....
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