I am torn whether we should simply ignore Mircea Popescu (and his supporters), or try to continue to teach them the error in their ways on this issue.
I think I read somewhere that he is still on one of the 0.4.x clients. He distrusts a lot of the new features introduced since then. He believes that Bitcoin core should not have a wallet built-in at all. (0.9.x does let you disable the wallet).
I don't think he trusts the Obelisk effort either. Without a detailed spec, forks are likely if alternate Bitcoin node software is not bug-for-bug compatible. This was recently illustrated with
recent versions of OpenSSL not being bug-for bug compatible (and causing a fork).
. That's where this "conversation" is taking place; not on some derpy forum.
He's not just running old versions; he's having them re-written. You can read all about it at the
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