Also, agreed with Armstrong 100%. Classic is the best implementation to support right now, but not necessarily long term. This is why we need multiple competing implementations of bitcoin for our collective health & future. Centralizing the power into Blockstream's hands so far seems to have been a very bad idea. Can't get over their shadiness. Adam Back claiming to have invented bitcoin, Austin Hill scammed 100k out of people when he was 16. Can't trust these people. Makes you wonder who was behind the DDoS of classic/XT nodes.
Looks like Austin Hill and Adam Back's relationship goes back to 1997:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Knowledge_SystemsZero-Knowledge Systems (also known as ZKS) was a Canadian privacy technology software and services company, best known for the Freedom Network, its privacy network. It was founded by brothers Austin Hill & Hamnett Hill and their father Hamnett Hill Sr. (aka Hammie Hill) in 1997. Its headquarters were in Montreal, Quebec. Early investors and board members were Mike Santer and Alex Hern co-founder Inktomi. The company still exists under the new name Radial Point though is no longer a developer of privacy-enhancing technologies.
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Several of the company's employees were from an academic privacy-enhanced technology background: Dr Stefan Brands (senior cryptographer) and cypherpunk background Dr Ian Goldberg (chief scientist) and Dr Adam Back (architect & cryptographer).
Hammie Hill owned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forzani_Group.
In 2011, Canadian Tire bought Forzani for $771 million, and has since embarked on a large scale brand restructuring.
Let's jump to Canadian Tire on Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_TireThe retailer is known for its Canadian Tire money, a loyalty program first introduced in 1958, where customers are provided with coupons resembling paper money worth 0.5% of their purchase that can be used in subsequent purchases as scrip at Canadian Tire stores and gas stations.
My bad! Nothing to see here.
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But hey, for shits and giggles search "Canadian Tire" (with quotes) on this forum, then come back here in an hour or so and report your findings.