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The only resentment I have with Bitcoin and any other crypto is that they try to be "decentralized", but the moment the developers of your main node/wallet app
by xinayder 3y ago
The only resentment I have with Bitcoin and any other crypto is that they try to be "decentralized", but the moment the developers of your main node/wallet app are under a payroll, funded by a business, crypto is no longer decentralized.
Bitcoin Core, long ago, was "purchased" by Blockstream and they started pushing their own agenda for the protocol, and Luke Jr is one of the devs on their payroll.
Yes, of course, you can create your own wallet or node but unless 51% of the network uses it, your protocol changes will never reach the whole network.
- throwayaw84329 3y agoIt's blatantly false that "Bitcoin Core was purchased by Blockstream". It's absolutely not the case. It's more like a conspiracy theory that keeps getting pushed into Bitcoin-related threads at Hacker news (maybe to tilt future analysis?) If we take a look at the past month of commits from https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse/monthly https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse/monthly, the top ten authors are: - MarcoFalke - fanquake - hebasto - ajtowns - glozow - ismaelsaadeq - TheCharlatan - instagibbs - brunoerg - mzumsande None of them works at Blockstream. When you say "long ago", it likely points to the "Bitcoin Cash" incident. Almost every person that knows of Bitcoin Cash thinks that Bitcoin is a scam; almost everyone else laughs at the idea of Bitcoin Cash working. Long ago, that was also the case: https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/61blfg/blockstream_vs_core_does_blockstream_really/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/61blfg/blockstream... (edited for format)
- RustyRussell 3y agoinstagibbs has worked for Blockstream in the past, but that's all I can see.
- RustyRussell 3y agoThis is blatantly false. And Luke never worked for us. (I am the longest serving engineer at Blockstream).