Re: blockstream - wants to tax you and become the new Bitcoin oligarchy
I think they should try to be as transparent as possible, but there may be indeed a conflict of interest. Time will tell.
The is a conflict of interest. What time will tell is the extent to which they were acting upon it.
There is nothing in general wrong with a conflict of interest, but it should be openly disclosed.
On a related note, I'd love to hear Jonald's and Carton's view of the ongoing censorship at /r/bitcoin and to a lesser extent at this forum. For example, Bitcoin[redacted] was defined as an alt-coin by the moderators at /r/bitcoin and all talk related to it has been deemed off-topic. Several people were banned for linking to sub-reddits that emerged as a result of the censorship.
Here at our own forum, Cypherdoc's "Gold Collapsing. Bitcoin UP" thread was locked by the Admin, despite it having over 1.4 million views and over 30,000 comments. The rational given by BadBear is that threads that are broad in scope ("mega-threads") are no longer permitted on this forum.
What are your views on these recent events?
More on this here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1157185.msg12198527#msg12198527
There is a ton of inconsistency on the moderators/admins parts on what you wrote above.
Clearly there is another agenda when consistency goes out the window while censorship is allowed into the window.