Quote from: brg444 on August 26, 2015, 09:30:27 PM

Quote from: DooMAD on August 26, 2015, 08:46:09 PM

Quote from: brg444 on August 26, 2015, 08:36:28 PM

Gavin has shown himself not trustworthy of this key. His influence over Bitcoin anyway has long started to fade anyway. What has he done for us lately?

"Gavin's influence is fading, but we have to stop him from having influence by taking away his key".

Way to contradict yourself yet again. I can see you're going to be a source of much entertainment.

It is primarily a matter of trust, not influence. These keys should not be in the hands of any random derp who has resorted to trolling fellow developers on Twitter

It is also a matter of influence. The ability to make almost everyone stop using Bitcoin until they take some action on a scary sounding emergency could be very useful if (not when) some new hostile takeover attempt is triggered.

Slamming the ecosystem into a 'benevolent dictator' mode of management is bad enough. When said 'benevolent dictator' has a long track record of wanting to centralize the solution to 4 or 6 copies of the blockchain worldwide and 'white/black/red-list' coins to 'help the community' overcome certain problems, it would almost certainly be curtains for the solution in Satoshi's original form. A well timed 'alert' could be the difference between success or failure of such an attempt.