#GMAX rocks.. Simple as that.
Anyone who has issue with a crypto maths genius contributing to bitcoin as heavily as he does, is clearly insane..
If someone wants to step up, no one's stopping you.
Topic: Greg Maxwell is now the owner of Bitcoin. That's all. - page 6. (Read 5080 times)
bitcoin is open source there is no one controlling it,
It's just fun to say that, but everyone knows that even if 95% wanted some change, if Greg and Core and Blockstream were in that 5%, they could manage to 'convince' dumb Chinese miners that a hard fork would result and they should stick with Core.And then the 95% could hard fork and leave Greg and Core and Blockstream and the "dumb Chinese miners" holding worthless "oldcoins" while the rest of the world moves on with the new Bitcoin.
That's how the decentralized consensus sytem works. The miners and the small minority can't keep the vast majority of users and merchants from doing something that they all want.
It isn't really Open Source.
Of course it is. I can read every line of the source. None of it is hidden. I can copy it and change it however I like. If I can get a significant majority of the users to use my software, then I will be in control (until someone else gets a significant majority of users to use their software).
A tiny minority can prevent a very popular change due to the difficulty reaching 'concensus'.
Nope. It requires a rather large minority to prevent a popular change. A tiny minority can't prevent anything.
Threat of possible hard fork scares Chinese.
They are welcome to be as scared as they like. In the end, they will have to either do what the vast majority wants, or they will be left holding worthless blocks.
r/btc quote = instant death spiral of credibility no matter what the subject matter, but super especially this one.
I don't know anything about him myself. I don't massively care. If Bitcoin does look like it's permanently crippled then it deserves to go down in flames.
I'll pick up the ideas again with a descendant that does follow the original principles.
I don't know anything about him myself. I don't massively care. If Bitcoin does look like it's permanently crippled then it deserves to go down in flames.
I'll pick up the ideas again with a descendant that does follow the original principles.
Greg maxwellhas thegift of coding but that does not mean he is controlling bitcoin.yes he has effected many open source peojects just how many open source projects can be compared with bitcoin.
bitcoin is open source there is no one controlling it,
It's just fun to say that, but everyone knows that even if 95% wanted some change, if Greg and Core and Blockstream were in that 5%, they could manage to 'convince' dumb Chinese miners that a hard fork would result and they should stick with Core. It isn't really Open Source. A tiny minority can prevent a very popular change due to the difficulty reaching 'concensus'. Threat of possible hard fork scares Chinese.
so in a nutshell why he is the owner? i think he had good contribution right? what he exactly did in the wrong way to take all those shit against him? and bitcoin is open source there is no one controlling it, who can join and is talented can do so
Is there a link about this, I've been out of it for a while?
Here's a bit of back story
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4klqtg/people_are_starting_to_realize_how_toxic_gregory/
Is there a link about this, I've been out of it for a while?
I don’t think we should reach to any kind of conclusion at this moment, things might be confusing at the moment but it would be too much hurry to jump to any conclusion. One should express your opinion but should not try to impose it on others because it might create the negative impact on others and especially newbies.
Additionally, it would be great if you quote links and add detailed view about it because the title and one word in the post are not enough to have a clear picture.
Additionally, it would be great if you quote links and add detailed view about it because the title and one word in the post are not enough to have a clear picture.
Shit.
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