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> Step 1: Buy off We founded the company. > all of the top developers A couple people out of a community of around 50-200 depending on the phase of the moon.

• wellthissukz 10y ago
  Again, these are lies from Gregory Maxwell (Blockstream CTO). Please provide details on funding. Specifically, how much AXA paid? "A couple people out of a community of around 50-200 depending on the phase of the moon." Again a lie. The top Core devs are Blockstream employees. Blockstream has created a toxic environment and a huge ivory tower. "Uh. You know that Bitcoin is a decenteralized system that no one controls; right? We do a lot of fixes, but we're not your personal code monkies. There is a LOT going on in Bitcoin, and it's working pretty darn well at the moment." Meanwhile 80%+ of the hasrate is concentrated in a single country and in the hands of a handful of entities. Ironically, Blockstream goes graet lengths to exploit this (HK roundtable farce). "Via our magical mind control rays, I suppose? Blockstream doesn't control or influence any forums." People associated with BlockstreamCore support censored and manipulated forums, interestingly owned by a single individual (theymos) Gregory, you are the most pathetic individual in the Bitcoin space.
  • akkad3a 10y ago
    Personal attacks and conspiracy theories really need to stop.
  • nullc 10y ago
    > Please provide details on funding. Specifically, how much AXA paid? Dunno, not enough to be broken out on the reports I have. They're not an investor that I've ever met with-- we have a lot of investors. Though it's a cute technique that y'all have been using where you try asking something that would be confidential, to try to inhibit a response on the long list of leading questions that follows. >> "A couple people out of a community of around 50-200 depending on the phase of the moon." > Again a lie. The top Core devs are Blockstream employees. I gave a breakout in another post; if you want to go by top you end up with three out of the top 10, all of whom were founders of the company. wooo. > Blockstream has created a toxic environment and a huge ivory tower. What does that even mean? or another way, how could someone falsify that claim? > Meanwhile 80%+ of the hasrate is concentrated in a single country and in the hands of a handful of entities Unfortunately, the block size limit was set too large and this created outsized returns for large consolidations. More recent improvements have caught things up a bit but it will take a while for the damage to equalize out. > People associated with BlockstreamCore support censored and manipulated forums, What the @#$@ are you talking about? Citations? Or are you just saying that anyone of the vast majority of people who are supportive of our work is "associated"?
    • miles_c 10y ago
      > Unfortunately, the block size limit was set too large and this created outsized returns for large consolidations. Can you expand on this? What did the limit have to do with returns? Wouldn't a smaller limit increase returns (fees)?
    • fraggle222 10y ago
      >Unfortunately, the block size limit was set too large and this created outsized returns for large consolidations. Can you clarify this statement?
• ptokb3 10y ago
  Thanks for answering Greg. This isn't a throw-away account. I've lurked for years without needing to become involved. The larger public needs to know that: > We founded the company. Obviously you're the CTO but not all of the other 'employees' paid by your company founded it with you. > You know that Bitcoin is a decentralized system that no one controls; right? Actually you've locked down the codebase. Any one developer can make a common sense change contentious and prevent it from being merged. That's kinda centralized don't you think? Getting a few people to disagree is a pretty low barrier if a government was bent on destroying Bitcoin. We need decentralized development to match Bitcoin's decentralized nature. > Bitcoin, and it's working pretty darn well at the moment. Does that include transactions that don't go through even with correct fees? What do you say to the new user that did nothing wrong and has to wait 3 days for his coins to reappear in his wallet because he tried to send a transaction during a high-volume time? Does that also include overly expensive fees approaching 50cents and could reach several dollars within the year? Limiting transaction velocity and making transactions artificially expensive is a bad idea at this point in Bitcoin's existence. You need to stop ignoring that network operations are failing. > Via our magical mind control rays, I suppose.. No, by calling alternate code bases altcoins - even though they operate on the same blockchain - you have setup an environment where they are not allowed to be honestly discussed at length on /r/bitcoin. Further, even though positive posts are banned, negative posts about other Bitcoin wallet/mining software are allowed. Any outside person can clearly see that is censorship. Moderators point to CoreDevelopers as the reason for that censorship. I also know you know Theymos so you can't say you're not buddies with him. I'm sure if you wanted you could ask for it and have posts removed/deleted.
  • nullc 10y ago
    > but not all of the other 'employees' paid by your company founded it with you The "top developers of Bitcoin" you were referring to did. > Actually you've locked down the codebase. So, there is a concrete claim of an action. But you're not specific. Locked down how? What are you referring to? Please provide hyperlinks for clarity. > We need decentralized development Every developer has their own codebase, the community tends to cooperate because its efficient and makes sense. But participating at all requires making your own fork, and anyone can at any time promote their fork for public use. Some have, but the ones created to rewrite Bitcoin's rules with a hardfork so far have not been supported by engineers and languish largely stillborn. > Does that include transactions that don't go through even with correct fees? I'm not aware of any issues like that, can you point me to a trouble ticket? > Limiting transaction velocity How have we done that? The design of Bitcoin and physical reality create limits and select trade-offs. > No, by calling alternate code bases altcoins We have? > even though they operate on the same blockchain The people who are calling things like the deceptively named Bitcoin "classic" altcoins do so specifically because when they activate they will not operate on the same blockchain. > you have setup an environment where they are not allowed to be honestly discussed at length on /r/bitcoin. [...] I'm sure if you wanted you could ask for it I, nor anyone at my company, have any control over /r/bitcoin's policies, and-- in fact-- I argued vigorously against them (before I saw what the unmoderated feed looked like-- a non-stop stream of brand new sockpuppet accounts promoting rule rewrites, often with dishonest claims, outnumbering all other posts 20:1)... > I also know you know Theymos What does that mean? I've had a few conversations with him, yes-- and in the ones where I tried to convince him to not use a fairly restrictive moderation policy in /r/bitcoin I failed.