Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, knows a thing or two about how to successfully engineer a decentralised, peer to peer protocol. Bram wrote about the manufac

Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, knows a thing or two about how to successfully engineer a decentralised, peer to peer protocol. Bram wrote about the manufacturing of this ‘fake crisis’ back in June of last year [1]. He wrote a subsequent post after Mike Hearn's big ragequit in January [2]. And he's written another short post just today [3]. I'd suggest reading these if you want to get some balance to this highly one-sided and simplistic article by Cade Metz in Wired. [1] https://medium.com/@bramcohen/bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a85e39f#.hvgkb4vxz https://medium.com/@bramcohen/bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a... [2] https://medium.com/@bramcohen/whiny-ragequitting-cab164b1e88#.1pmjtdg6v https://medium.com/@bramcohen/whiny-ragequitting-cab164b1e88... [3] https://medium.com/@bramcohen/double-billing-is-not-healthy-competition-b698c345b11e#.hjwrfhn1g https://medium.com/@bramcohen/double-billing-is-not-healthy-...