Worth reminding people: On August 15th, 2015, Mike Hearn announced Bitcoin XT, and his attempt to fork the blockchain: https://medium.com/faith-and-future/why-

Worth reminding people: On August 15th, 2015, Mike Hearn announced Bitcoin XT, and his attempt to fork the blockchain: https://medium.com/faith-and-future/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d647312d22c1#.cdoemw4gh https://medium.com/faith-and-future/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d... On January 14th, 2016, 5 months later, Mike has unilaterally declared Bitcoin to be a failed experiment. In the intervening period, support for XT was at best minimal, and that's being charitable. There is a phrase we use in my neck of the woods when developers behave like this, and "responsible grown up behavior" isn't it.