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Disagreement over an important technical decision gets politicized and spirals out of control. An anonymous DDoS and death threats against developers fan the fl
by jimrandomh 11y ago
Disagreement over an important technical decision gets politicized and spirals out of control. An anonymous DDoS and death threats against developers fan the flames, and key figures bow out.
Who did that?
There is a significant contingent of people promoting Bitcoin as a force that will eventually undermine the power of governments. This can hardly have escaped their notice. Perhaps one of them saw a conflict brewing, and decided to opportunistically fan the flames?
- guelo 11y agoThere's really no need to add unfounded conspiracy theories like yours to the public discussion.
- jimrandomh 11y agoIt's a known fact of psychology that people fight less if they believe they have a shared enemy. In this case, there is what looks like enemy action (anonymous DDoSing and death threats) directed at both sides of the block-size conflict, appearing to come from across the aisle but definitely anonymous. Why not speculate on possible third parties that could be responsible? Maybe it'll make them notice they both just want Bitcoin to succeed.
- ceejayoz 11y agoIt's also a known fact that it doesn't take insidious government involvement to get a bunch of programmer-ideologues to get political and spiral out of control.
- doctorfoo 11y agoMost people in the Bitcoin community have a pretty shrewd idea who is responsible for the DDoSing. But no proof, of course. (Hint: Certain libertarian leaning early adopters who want Bitcoin to remain as a government-proof store of value, viewing any small reduction in decentralisation to be a terrible thing, and not caring about its use as an actual payment network)