Will there be a freeze of the current protocol version?

Hello,

BitPay seems to support BIP 101:

https://medium.com/@spair/increasing-the-block-size-limit-85ff236fc516

We do not know where this is going. But I suspect that ultimately also the core client will increase the block size.

Bitcoin is also the subject of research. I think that research is much to slow (and uncertain) for many companies and users. This is the reason for XT. Nevertheless, I think further research on the base of the current protocol version is very important. Thus, I hope that the current block chain survives. Albeit at a lower level with fewer users. And expressly not to sabotage necessary changes in the main project.

Let's suppose XT prevails or core is changed within the terms of BIP 101:

Do you think that there are enough people to continue with the old protocol version? Would developers fork a Bitcoin client for supporting the old nodes with security updates? Or will there be a compatibility mode in XT, so that XT behave like an old Bitcoin node? What about smaller but important projects like picocoin?

- oliver

To answer your question, from my perspective, I am not opposed to block size increase.. I am hoping it would be in the context of something like BIP 100 as I've said before.

But I'm extremely opposed to XT.

Would I continue with bitcoin if things continue and "XT prevails" as you put it? That is addressed in part here in this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1157545.msg12196537

Basically, in short, I would fight it as long as possible. I won't use XT, and I suspect there are many like myself who will never use it as well.

On 08/20/2015 03:16 AM, Oliver Egginger via bitcoin-dev wrote:

> Hello,
>
> BitPay seems to support BIP 101:
>
> https://medium.com/@spair/increasing-the-block-size-limit-85ff236fc516
>
>  We do not know where this is going. But I suspect that ultimately
> also the core client will increase the block size.
>
> Bitcoin is also the subject of research. I think that research is
> much to slow (and uncertain) for many companies and users. This is
> the reason for XT. Nevertheless, I think further research on the
> base of the current protocol version is very important. Thus, I
> hope that the current block chain survives. Albeit at a lower level
> with fewer users. And expressly not to sabotage necessary changes
> in the main project.
>
> Let's suppose XT prevails or core is changed within the terms of
> BIP 101:
>
> Do you think that there are enough people to continue with the old
> protocol version? Would developers fork a Bitcoin client for
> supporting the old nodes with security updates? Or will there be a
> compatibility mode in XT, so that XT behave like an old Bitcoin
> node? What about smaller but important projects like picocoin?
>
> - oliver _______________________________________________
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