btx is likely part of the strategy to capture bitcoin. Oldest playbook in history - divide and conquer. Rally all the sovereignty maximalists behind a genuinely good idea like bip-110. 'Prove' bitcoin is captured because when the miners, the most centralized entities in the network, refuse to run it there is nor reason for them not to run it. Ignore the fact that there is no economic incentive for the miners to filter fee paying transactions. Make it about morality - they should run it because it's the right thing to do. When it inevitably and predictably fails lean into their righteous indignation and tell them if you don't fork off you are morally bankrupt. This removes a massive swath of the few remaining altruistic bitcoiners who are the greatest resistance to state or corporate(no difference) capture. Give them their righteous cause that will inevitably fail and likely destroy their holdings of real bitcoin. Reinforce core funding and developer capture. Make a new coalition between corporations and developers with 'The Consortium'. (You are here) Push the truly devastating changes slowly enough that people won't really notice now that there is no real alternative node implementation. The few diehards that remain don't have enough support to mount a credible resistance because the establishment tricked them into forking off. Those that forked actively fight against those trying to fix the real bitcoin because they are bitter or truly believe that their shitfork is the real deal further thwarting the attempts of honest bitcoiners to promote self sovereign, pro pleb changes. Bitcoin dies by a thousand cuts. Mission accomplished. Others would explain it more eloquently than me but you have to be able to see this. Is Blue Ridge Appalachia? If so and you are American you know what our government is capable of. You must see how this only helps them and core. You have to be able to see what a shit show xbt has become. You guys didn't fix mining centralization, it immediately followed you and you are artificially supressing it by forking every few weeks by developer decree. This isn't about spam or decentralization anymore. It's about control or at best distraction. I even believe that most if not all in positions of leadership have good intentions but you can not seriously believe that the next bcash is helping remove money from the hands of the state. Did you not expect this? Do you not see how you all gave core exactly what they wanted and massively increased their credibility by forking off. The real win would have been admitting defeat and making a better proposal while maintaining and increasing knots adoption. There are already better proposals in the works but now our movement has been torn apart. We will have to start back at square one instead of being 30% of the network before the next proposal is even made. A single node or even 20% of the nodes was never enough to change the protocol. Study history. Segwit was nothing like that. In that case there was actual consensus building between miners, companies, exchanges, and node runners. The adoption of knots was the greatest threat to the establishment that has ever happened in bitcoin and we blew it just as coretards predicted. Bring the fight back to bitcoin where it belongs.