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Hi everyone. I'm Nadav, the CEO of Bitrated and one of the Israeli bitcoin activists that participated in the protest. Happy to hear your thoughts and help expl
by nadaviv 9y ago
Hi everyone. I'm Nadav, the CEO of Bitrated and one of the Israeli bitcoin activists that participated in the protest. Happy to hear your thoughts and help explain our view of things.
I'd like to clarify that despite the article saying otherwise, none of the flyers had any words of threats. This is not our way. The bitcoin activists that participated in the protest are peaceful and would never take part in threats, violence or any other illegal activity. The local bitcoin community have experience with similar protests against Israeli banks and corrupted officials, and this has always been a red line that was never crossed.
The protest in question took place in the public areas of building that's freely accessible. We said hi to the guy on front and he showed us the way. None of the protesters entered any offices, Bitmain's private property, or any other restricted areas.
Additionally, the meeting that Gadi is referring to took place more than a year ago. The protest was organized by the local bitcoin community to criticize Bitmain's actions and policies, and had nothing to do with that meeting or with Gadi personally.
Finally, we did not protest Bitmain's decisions regarding the scaling debate. The protest was purely about Bitmain's threats to initiate a 51% DoS attack against the Bitcoin network [0][1] and the remote kill-switch backdoor they introduced into their products [2][3][4].
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If anyone is interested seeing what all the fuss was about, the flyers in a readable format are available here:
http://imgur.com/a/sFHnI http://imgur.com/a/sFHnI (scroll down for the flyers)
My response to the "vandalism" claims is available here:
https://medium.com/@shesek/as-for-the-vandalism-claims-a471504225ad https://medium.com/@shesek/as-for-the-vandalism-claims-a4715...
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[0] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-unlimited-miners-may-be-preparing-51-attack-bitcoin/ https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-unlimited-miner...
[1] relevant flyers: http://i.imgur.com/PAg4Hkw.png http://i.imgur.com/PAg4Hkw.png http://i.imgur.com/I7CXjSe.png http://i.imgur.com/I7CXjSe.png
[2] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitmain-can-remotely-shut-down-your-antminer-and-everyone-elses/ https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitmain-can-remotely-sh...
[3] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/antbleed-massive-bitcoin-backdoor-could-knock-out-least-half-global-hash-power-1618924 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/antbleed-massive-bitcoin-backdoor-c...
[4] relevant flyers: http://i.imgur.com/fZIHbXc.png http://i.imgur.com/fZIHbXc.png http://i.imgur.com/bOBp54g.png http://i.imgur.com/bOBp54g.png