I never personally liked Gavin. He's loving being the prom queen too much. And I think he's being way overpaid. I think he'll stretch out development as long as possible to maximize stuffing his own pockets. If I had to analyze Gavin's true motives, he only cares about the attention and the money. He doesn't care if he was working on Bitcoin or some massive secret government project, as long as they pay him and put a camera in his face, he'll be flaunting that tiara hard.
Gripes about Gavin aside, what about the other Bitcoin core devs? You don't think they deserve to be paid either?
What about Wladimir van der Laan and Cory Fields? Do they continue writing code pro bono?
Some posters have to read the articles and the whole story before posting....
The core devs should be paid if they're doing it full-time and not volunteering. In the beginning, it was not paid. It was just to see if the whole thing would work. Once you start getting paid, then the person paying you can drive the narrative. Which is what we see now. Doesn't matter if the core devs "moved" from The Bitcoin Foundation, now the MIT Lab will have their own agenda. And the beat goes on...
I agree with you, Eastfist. To me, Gavin seems to be very conformist and sometimes even narcissistically ignorant when following his own agenda. It seems to me that he likes to grab power. Other devs have made contributions of equal importance without that attitude.
We should not forget, that it was Gavin's idea to establish The Bitcoin Foundation. Now he leaves his project in a state of ruin and heads over to the next organization willing to pay for him. He should at least officially admit that founding TBF was a mistake.
I was hoping for a whole lot more decentralization of the core development on a global front, not centralization in a single country. The salaries could have been crowd funded and the development could have been done in a geographical decentralized manner. There are too many countries holding back on Bitcoin, based on their concerns with the USA being in control of the core development. ^very sad^
Exactly. We don't need organizations to fund Bitcoin. Depending on organizations that work in US jurisdictions is even more problematic indeed. In fact, Bitcoin makes crowdfunding development easier than ever before. So why not use Bitcoin to fund Bitcoin?
ya.ya.yo!