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The #1 story was removed by the moderators. It was an article by Mike Hearn about why he's moving forward with the Bitcoin XT hard fork. [1]

The justification for the removal is that Bitcoin XT is an altcoin, and altcoin discussion is not allowed. [2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h424p/why_is_bitc...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h424p/why_is_bitc...

It's like saying Congress is not allowed to discuss or propose amendments to the constitution.

Bitcoin is designed to be fought over and amended, it's built into it. Software is never complete and XT is not an altcoin.

and /r/bitcoin is designed to be completely stupid.

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