By the way, now that I remember why I subscribed to the libbitcoin list I want to share it with you. I met Amir Taaki in person in a spanish hackmeeting and had the chance to talk a lot with him, very interesting person whose input in this blocksize matter I would greatly appreciate. He explained some of his concerns with Bitcoin Core (Bitcoin-qt at the time) and he specifically named 2 persons: Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen. If I remember correctly, Hearn had recently proposed a blacklisting scheme for Bitcoin.
I remember I said something along the lines: "Mike Hearn has certainly proposed some nasty things but I don't think other devs will ever accept that kind of changes in Bitcoin-qt. Regarding Gavin, I believe he is someone that can be trusted even if he visited the CIA. If anything, I think he is overly conservative about some changes, but that's very understandable given how fragile Bitcoin is (specially at this early stage)". Looking back, I now realize that his concerns were not exaggerated at all and I was clearly wrong thinking Gavin was overly conservative. He was also worried about the payment protocol and we agreed to disagree there (maybe I should read all the payment protocol stuff more deeply). I don't want this to be taken as an argument of authority "Mike and Gavin cannot be trusted because Amir didn't trust them", just as a curious anecdote. Amir, I wouldn't like to put words in your mouth: that's why I cc'ed you so you can correct me in case my memory is failing. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
