Topic: Gregory Maxwell threatens to sell his bitcoins and find other things to work on - page 2. (Read 7968 times)

In my opinion, reddit has never been the center of highly critical thinking. Lately r/bitcoin seems to be a game of "follow the leader" - much like you mentioned it appears they only wish to reprogram folks to get their way. I also agree that insane and annoying sales pitches do more harm than good.

Egads, what a boggling thread. (I will not be sending a christmas card to the mean person that sent me this link! ).

Go read the context.  Someone was asking me why I'm not doing the some PR blitz to influence people's thinking.  My response was that I don't care to win people over, that if Bitcoin's survival depends on constantly making rescuing it with a political sales pitch and a mass market PR campaign then I think that would mean that its already a failure.  I don't actually believe it is a failure but I'm not frightened of it becoming one, though I'd think it would be a bit sad to have wasted many years chasing a windmill and for the world to lose this opportunity;  but that said, I can just leave if it goes the highly centralized route, and go work on something that still has a prospect of success-- there are just too many important things that need to be done.  I don't think there is anything "threatening" or anything about that.

I care a lot about defending, protecting, and nurturing the system, but not so much that I feel compelled to go around trying to reprogram people to get my way.  To even admit that doing so would be possible is an admission that the system cannot work.   So I'm happy to continue to just communicate frankly in the forums and means that I normally communicate in and see how the experiment pans out.

So basically this thread is full of "idea guys" who can't and never have written a line of code in their lives insulting one of the foremost technical developers/experts of Bitcoin. Oh yeah, and also wishing for his departure. Sorry boys, but ideas only get you so far. People with technical skill who know what they are talking about and can program are actually needed. This is a massive problem that has been persistent in the Bitcoin community for years now ("Someone else will build or implement it!" "Oh, he implemented it for us, but we disagree with his viewpoints, fuck him and everything he's ever done for us!" "Someone else will build it again!" On and on it goes...)

Hasn't he threatened this before? Or was this someone else? Whoever it was they said they had about 150 coins so it's not going to destroy life as we know it.

He probably had a bad day. He's working a lot on BTC and he just announced all those cool blockstream features. Coding wizards are human too.
If he ends up selling he'll regret doing so so he knows better.

well he has vision and some words may be wrong understood but on this point he said he could sell his bitcoins already without no one knows it yes that is why bitcoin is bitcoin you cant know who is the btc you getting  lol

Agree.  It's not even grey so what's the point?  Being clean-shaven also might make cypherdoc like him.

one does not simply get rid of the beard. Now you have gone too far.

when any of u programmers prove u have any legimate skills to me besides Maxwell of course

well we doesnt need developers that say to community i could sell all my btc bla bla well do it let who believe and really support bitcoin get them,and all days bitcoins changes hands soo we dont know how many bitcoins a single user has ..we see some wallets around 50000 bitcoins others have more others less well all waiting a raise to sell .

He should get rid of his beard too.

We need him. However, Gregory Maxwell can quit if he wants. There are a lot of competent developers out there. His lack of hand-on experience in capacity planning for scalable systems makes me sick. We need more competent developers, not just him.

way to fallacy, one day youll have a real argument... it doesnt seem like that is today though.

says the guy pumping an altcoin.

finally, someone is picking up what I was putting down. haha.

Wow, look at his github contributions before saying insults like that. Without him Bitcoin would be nowhere technically. I agree with Mr Maxwell, increasing the blocksize limit does nothing to fix the actual problem, it just prolongs it, as 20mb still can't scale to anywhere near VISA levels, and eventually that limit would have to be increased again and again(Which would be much harder and dangerous assuming that Bitcoin grows exponentially in the future, hardforking it would be a huge deal).

i agree with you!

Awesome we have different definitions of a project.

Everybody is selling their coins these days.

Fuck him! Let him sell them all. We'll be better without him.