Quite astonishing. Especially, that gmaxwell is a super intelligent individual. When I talk to people about Bitcoin here in the UK I often point out that the best software developers of our industry work on BTC and one of the bests is gmaxwell. I am not sure why he navigates himself into this situation.
Oh come now. TPTB made a totally offtopic post-- had nothing to do with Bitcoin at all, and only anything to do with the thread in question is that the rust language was mentioned in the thread and TPTB made a one sentence comment that he previously had complaints about rust but didn't remember them-- and it got moved to another subforum; where.. in fact, I wrote a polite reply to his commentary on audio codecs.
TPTB's response was to go on a campaign of insults and allegations; spreading conspiracy theories and such; instead of just looking in his post history to see that the post was still there. His immediate recourse to attacks creates a hostile environment. Most thoughtful people have better things to do than to deal with that, myself included. If you'd like to continue to share a forum with "the best software developers of our industry"-- then you should step up and ask people like TPTB to relax on the attacks, not shake your head with him in agreement when someone else doesn't completely lie down and take a pile of abuse.
Gregory now you are lying (or lacking reading comprehension or refusing to read/ignoring information again). See the red text:
Note this copy is being copied all over the place so it can't be deleted.
Your post wasn't deleted. It was entirely off-topic (going on about an audio format, in a thread about a cryptographic protocol.. had nothing to do with Bitcoin) and ended up getting moved to the off-topic subforum: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ogg-opus-1378533 . I even responded to it.
I failed to see how (even if my comment about using Rust is considered off-topic, which also seems to be arguably relevant to jl777 asking if the source code is in C and your reply that it is in Rust and C++), that the following comment is off-topic and why it deserved to be removed from the thread within 60 seconds of my posting:
Btw, I applaud the effort to develop zk-snarks for smart contracts. I believe it is absolutely necessary per the revelation in the "cut & choose" thread which if you think about actually has implications for any scripting on a block chain.
I am glad to see the post ended up some where. Unfortunately you were very slow to provide any indication of where the post had been moved to, orders-of-magnitude slower than your frantic < 60 second effort to remove my post from your thread. Hiding something? Don't want your reputation to be in doubt?
And Gregory isn't as
Once he digests that, he will realize Bitcoin's scripting is flawed!
For the dumbass trolls in this forum who think Gregory is absolutely smarter than me in every facet, I have a surprise coming for you...
As for the polite reply Gregory refers to, I want to draw attention to his deletion of Come-from-Beyond's post (within seconds/minutes of it being posted, but I just happened to be reading the thread) and Gregory closing the entire thread after that post from Come-from-Beyond made it more clear that Gregory had been both technically incorrect and had railroaded another PhD. He did the same to my post and didn't even message me nor leave any link in the former thread, so I had no way to know where the post had been moved to and thus I rightfully assumed it had just been deleted. The point is that since he did not provide readers any indication that he had deleted and moved a post, we all have no way to verify if he actually did respond politely at the time, or whether he went into damage control mode later and later reposted my post to Off Topic and tried to be polite after the fact. Normally I would take a person at his word, but Gregory's past behavior causes me to suspect him to be a snake (some contagion of overly zealous control freak, superiority complex, earned destiny bcz for example Adam Back invented Hashcash, combined with vested interest of thinking he and his cohorts own Bitcoin or something like that... I haven't exactly figured out their thinking/disease yet).
Note I have already acknowledged Gregory's apparently very exceptional work on the Ogg Opus sound codec. My (only high-level, superficial) understanding it this was a fabulous improvement in sound codecs and it is a shame it isn't more widely used:
Perhaps one of the reasons (other than the politics around patents and Apple's refusal to adopt it), is they apparently fucked up the Ogg container format (but note discussion between Gregory and myself is ongoing on that point so the final conclusion is not yet decided in my mind). I have also acknowledged Gregory's reasonably expert cryptography work (but I would still rate Berstein as much more prolific if not also more accurate, yet Gregory has also made some astute points about for example the type of ECDSA that Bitcoin uses). Gregory's background in number theory math and encodings is far superior to mine. But this is ostensibly a pigeon-holed background that apparently doesn't reach well into economics and the many other aspects of software design (or perhaps it is just personality trait of Gregory and/or a prioritization methodology he has chosen). Whereas, I have produced commercial software for millions of users more than once. I normally would have great respect and admiration for a person of Gregory's abilities, but his Hitler-like activities have turned me into his nemesis. When he comes down off his high horse and treats all people with mutual respect (except for trolls), then I can begin to admire him as my fellow cohort human being.
As for the claim that I am hurling insults, thus far I have seen no clarification/retort from Gregory about the information I dug up about Segregated Witness which seems to indicate that Blockstream is attempting to plant a Trojan Horse in Bitcoin. If he has posted a rebuttal some where else in the forum, I eagerly await a link to it.
Am I hurling insults or truths? Was Gregory hurling insulting lies or truths? I expect the truth will lie some where in between, and the source of the misunderstandings is Gregory's overzealous conviction that he is rarely incorrect. I understand very smart people develop a natural insulation from trolls and tend to think everyone is an idiot until they can prove otherwise. I try to listen to everyone. It is painful and causes me a lot of lost time due to so much noise that I have to wade through, but it also affords me insights that others pompously miss. Also it seems Gregory never learned the value of Mea Culpa.
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