Reddit r/bitcoin Suffering XT Malaise

Reddit r/bitcoin Suffering XT Malaise

The XT schism is causing negative mood all over the Bitcoin ecosystem. The announcement pushed the bitcoin price over the edge, the XT big block agenda has the public harassing the Core developers to also upsize (is one XT not enough?) and now that tranquil discussion forum, r/bitcoin, has toppled into division as Mike Hearn and XT pulls more communities into its vortex of dissatisfaction. r/bitcoin has become the scene of a popular uprising against dictatorship and censorship following a moderator's decree that XT-talk was off-topic in the sub-reddit. So Unfair. Every post, it seems is....


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