Archived Can someone please give me a rundown on this whole XT thing? (bitcoin)
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Archived Can someone please give me a rundown on this whole XT thing? (bitcoin)
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[–] BitsenBytes 3 points 12 points 15 points (+15|-3) ago (edited ago)
XT is basically a forked version of Bitcoin that supports larger block sizes. It uses the same blockchain as Bitcoin Core so at the time being it's basically like any other wallet. The only significant difference is that when the 75% of the miners support and only after Jan 11, 2016, then there will be a fork in the chain and larger blocks can then be mined by the miners and forwarded by the nodes. Those that don't support it are working very hard to censor any information getting out on r/Bitcoin and other forums with the exception of this one and also r/bitcoinxt.
Running an XT node is a vote for bigger blocks and shows the miners that the people are interested in having bigger blocks. If you don't want bigger blocks then you can run Bitcoin Core and show your support there.
If you want up do date info on the adoption of XT or want to download the software you can get it here
http://www.xtnodes.com/