Quote from: Carlton Banks on August 24, 2015, 11:34:45 AM

No wonder you exhibit such self loathing then, you cheat and lie your way through nary every exchange you've conducted on this forum for several years. Several. Years. Will you eventually hit adulthood?

Quite a feat there since I only became aware of bitcoin around Nov/2013. That is 1 year and 10 months ago, barely. So who is lying? Grin

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Get your story straight Jorge, you were claiming that Blockstream was a centralising influence not long ago. When decentralisation is manifest, you attack that. When centralisation is the only valid solution, you attack that too.

I am pretty convinced that Blockstream tried, and is still trying, to centralize control of software development. It would be quite a bit of coincidence, don't you think, that they hired most of the Core developers: Adam Back (President), Greg Maxwell, Pieter Wuille, Matt Corallo, Mark Friedenbach, Rusty Russell, Patrick "Intersango" Strateman, Jorge Timón, and Glen Willen. There may be others. Luke "Tonal" Jr works for Blockstream as contractor. Do you think that they would be happy to see some other implementation become the reference one?

Sidechains were not intended to centralize development on Blockstream. Their stated goal was to allow experimentation with different protocols and service models without the need of changes to bitcoin itself. Their unstated goal was basically political, namey to protect bitcoin from the threat of being superseded by an altcoin. The hope was that promising altcoins would choose to be "backed by bitcoin" (even if that did not mean much actually) and therefore would want to cooperate with and support it, instead of compete with and disparage it.

The grand plan of Blockstream devs for scaling bitcoin has been, for some time already, pushing the normal traffic to off-chain solutions and having bitcoin be the "gold of the internet", a medium reserved for high-value settlements between those off-chain systems. At first, they fuzzily imagined that sidechains could be such off-chain systems, but perhaps they realized that they would not work (I can think of many reasons why). So, when the Lightning Network came up they embraced it. The existing sketch of the LN has many fatal problems too, which they know; but still they are happy to use it as an excuse for their plan of bitcoin into congestion.

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Yet according to you, you're constantly buying Bitcoin. Real consistent, Jorge.

As I said many times, I have been doubling my holdings of bitcoins every day since Nov/2013. Honest. I still don t have as much as Satoshi, though.