You said: "If Bitcoin were to implement xthin (or an alternative proposal such as compact blocks) it would be much better to release outside of the block incre

You said: "If Bitcoin were to implement xthin (or an alternative proposal such as compact blocks) it would be much better to release outside of the block increase." Fact: Both xthin and compact blocks are different implementations of the same idea. Both have already been implemented and released and are in active production.