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Two developers, nullc and pieter are against increasing the blocksize at a reasonable rate. Gavin, Jeff Garzik and Mike Hearn wish to increase it by early next
by Andrew_Quentin 11y ago
Two developers, nullc and pieter are against increasing the blocksize at a reasonable rate. Gavin, Jeff Garzik and Mike Hearn wish to increase it by early next year. Following some three months of debate, an agreement could not be reached, so Gavin and Mike are forking Bitcoin to the new Bitcoin XT. The vast majority of users, businesses and miners support Gavin and his bigger blocks, but blockstream, a relativley new for profit company which employs nullc aka Gregory Maxwell and Pieter as well as some other bitcoin devs and is developind lightning and sidechains which they offer as an alternative to increasing the blocksize has managed to stall this process, thus leading to a fork.
- maaku 11y ago> Two developers, nullc and pieter are against increasing the blocksize at a reasonable rate. Careful, what is "reasonable" is what is at issue here. There are legitimate arguments being made on both sides.
- Andrew_Quentin 11y agoOne side - your side specifically maaku and that of your employer blockstream - loses complete legitimacy when they start censoring posts and spoofing Satoshi's email address.
- maaku 11y agoNeither Blockstream nor any of the core developers have affiliation with r/bitcoin, bitcointalk, or bitcoin.org. By design, mind you, for the purpose of ensuring decentralization. I may have the book badge on the subreddit, but I'm as helpless about censorship as you are.
- Andrew_Quentin 11y agoYet you and some of your other blockstream colleagues are cheering on the censorship in r/bitcoin.
- maaku 11y agoI am not and I don't know anyone at Blockstream who is. Care to back that up with a link?
- toomim 11y agoOh, please. The reddit moderators and satoshi asshat have nothing to do with Maaku or Blockstream. Andrew, your logic is slimy. You are trying to associate Maaku and Blockstream with something they are not. You didn't respond to Maaku's point at all. You're being such an asshole! This debate needs to chill out.
- Dylan16807 11y agoSure, s/reasonable/meaningful/. It's about whether to have a notable increase right now, with very-small or not-now increases going on the 'no' side.