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Lukedashjr has also done some highly questionable things over his stay in the ecosystem. Blockstream seemed to have hired him on a contract basis to perform a task in which he had domain experience. I can tolerate that better. On balance the team is still amazing though.
what type of domain experience?
Some mining code iirc. I didn't pay a lot of attention to it but the contract as tangentially described, seemed to make sense.
I only really remember my basic take-away from thinking about who was involved in Blockstream. I try to put at least a little bit of thought into this aspect of a business. I did the same about Coinbase who I actually did use. I concluded that they are not to my liking philosophically, but that they were unlikely to rip me off and I needed services in their segment. So far this has been true.