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>What's odd is that this article is so well written that it really clicks with bitter developers who are just confused in the vast sea of alternative technologi
by DINKDINK 9y ago
>What's odd is that this article is so well written that it really clicks with bitter developers who are just confused in the vast sea of alternative technologies
Hearn has a penchant for penning very well written articles but complaining about systemic issues rather than directly solving them.
He was the kernel of the block size split that occurred in bitcoin starting in 2015 whose vitriolic fruit still bears today. Rather than face up to the fact that his fix proposals were either technically and or politically dead on arrival, he claimed a vast conspiracy.
There are some valid claims in this post but again it’s too heavy on complaining and light on the solutions.
- mike_hearn 9y agoI think that's a bit unfair. Firstly, I did try and solve the block size problem. Myself and Gavin did Bitcoin XT. It resulted in large DDoS attacks that took out entire regional areas because they contained a single XT node, any mention of XT being banned from the Bitcoin forums, large companies like Coinbase being banned too for simply experimenting with it, and so on. Miners also refused to run it because they were told that this would be democracy, and democracy was dangerous (they were almost all in China, so no surprises there). There was a large, organised and extremely hostile effort to ensure that the solutions we proposed could not be adopted even by those who wanted to. I did a lot more than just write articles. As for this article, it says there's a second part coming where I propose concrete solutions.
- hutzlibu 9y ago"As for this article, it says there's a second part coming where I propose concrete solutions" looking forward for it ...