"He also complained of denial-of-service attacks against Coinbase and others, while The New York Times reported that some developers had received death threats.

"He also complained of denial-of-service attacks against Coinbase and others, while The New York Times reported that some developers had received death threats. [...] But he raises a good point—denial-of-service attacks and death threats notwithstanding. [...] This is pretty much how things are supposed to work. Sure, [...] the election tactics got out of hand at times. But, well, this is the internet." This is a hell of a thing to yadda yadda. Calling DDOSes and death threats "election tactics" is ridiculous. If running X version of bitcoin is voting, then it's not a (free) election if you interrupt people on the way to the polls and intimidate them when they're not backing your candidate.