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As someone who hasn't been following bitcoin development very closely, can you please give me some examples or sources as to why they deserve to be unseated?

• smitherfield 11y ago
  It's been posted elsewhere in this thread, but: https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7 https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905118
• notlukejr 11y ago
  Do you trust these people? Austin Hill, CEO of Blockstream, admits to committing fraud to scam people: http://betakit.com/montreal-angel-austin-hill-failed-spectacularly-before-later-success/ http://betakit.com/montreal-angel-austin-hill-failed-spectac... Greg Maxwell, CTO of Blockstream, vandalizes pages on Wikipedia for fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=36639732#User:Gmaxwell https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Adminis... Patrick Strateman, co-founder of Blockstream, has been accused of fraud/theft: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159071.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159071.0 Luke-Jr, consultant to Blockstream claims the sun orbits the earth, slavery is okay, sodomy should be punished by death and that gay marriage is a logical impossibility. http://forums3.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?p=203850#p203850 http://forums3.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?p=203850#p2038... https://np.reddit.com/r/bitcoin_uncensored/comments/492ztl/lukejr_the_only_religion_people_have_a_right_to/ https://np.reddit.com/r/bitcoin_uncensored/comments/492ztl/l... https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/48avz0/informational_poll_tell_us_your_theology/d0noawh https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/48avz0/inform...
  • oska 11y ago
    Unfortunately this comment and this account (created only to criticise the bitcoin core team) is a good representation of the calibre of most of the criticism and attacks they have been copping over the last year or so.
    • petertodd 11y ago
      Let's be more clear: it's horribly misleading. E.g. the Austin Hill example is from when the man was 16, and comes from a talk he gave about how he learned an important moral lesson from that moral failure that changed the course of the rest of his life.
      • kmonsen 11y ago
        I don't really see anything horribly misleading here. The linked article mentions this as well. Luke-JR seems to have --- special --- views of the world. Not sure if I would trust him with anything at all.