Can this anecdote and similar be removed from the mailing list. Possibly one of the reddits is a better place for this kind of thing.
On 20/8/15 7:56 am, "Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev" <[email protected]> wrote: >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 _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
