Tom Harding
Jul 24, 2017 · 1 min read

My good man. You think miners were behind Bitcoin XT? Remember, in 2015 XT failed to get close to 75% hash power. Miners stopped switching after slush pool was subjected to heavy DDoS attack. They feared attacks and had not yet come to understand that Core was pursuing a direction that directly threatened their business and the incentive structure of bitcoin.

Today, Bitcoin XT benefits from miner support along with most of the alternate implementations. They don’t own it, or tell us what to do. However we believe their vision for bitcoin is better than that of Core backers such as Blockstream.

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