Quote from: Possum577 on August 18, 2015, 03:14:56 AM

Quote from: gentlemand on August 17, 2015, 12:05:45 PM

There's a bomb implanted in Gavin's wife by evil big blockers. Unless a 1.1mb block appear in the middle of January then up she goes.

I cant believe you got paid for that...^^^

Quote from: meono on August 17, 2015, 03:54:50 PM

Quote from: JackH on August 17, 2015, 03:46:05 PM

meono why did you join this forum 14 days ago and have predominantly posted in XT related posts? It seems a bit weird that all you can do is to push the XT agenda. Where were you in the past 4 years? What makes you the expert? Do you have another account? Are you a dev?

Others have called my Gavin.

But none of what you ask matters if you want to counter my points.

So what are the questions that matter? If you want to influence us, educate us...

If you want to know why i registered 14 days ago, go PM admins or mods here.

Second, are you seriously asking what questions to ask me? LOL what a twisted logic you have there. My point is so darn simple, tell me how Mike will ......control bitcoin network.

Keep repeating it but then ignore MY QUESTION.

Also another point:

Quote from: meono on August 17, 2015, 03:43:09 PM

Quote from: RoadTrain on August 17, 2015, 03:39:35 PM

Quote from: desired_username on August 17, 2015, 01:11:27 PM

Even if people upgraded to XT, hearn wouldn't have more control than any other devs.

The code is opensource. Normally, Devs can only propose ways, and the community can decide what turn to take.

Currently most posts and comments that go against Blockstream/Core devs are being censored on forums owned by theymos.

I think the sole reason behind the creation of Blockstream was to control bitcoin development.

Wrong, he would. You have made contradictory statements.

As you are implying, currently core devs have clearly more control over Bitcoin code than Gavin and Mike. If the latter two succeed with their fork, then XT becomes the real Bitcoin. As many of core devs leave (they have stated they likely will), the Bitcoin code gets under control of Gavin and Mike.

Of course, if they start malicious activity in the open, someone will notice, and some action will likely be taken. But it's not the only way to undermine Bitcoin -- you can engineer trivially looking patches that introduce actual weaknesses which almost noone can notice until it's too late.

I'm not implying they will necessarily act maliciously, I'm pointing out the fact that if they do, it can go unnoticed. There are very few people with enough expertise...

Good point, you should start by looking at Lighting Network and Blockstream first.

You know the one thats already in the work instead of your hypothetical scenario.