Quote from: BitUsher on December 31, 2015, 06:05:23 PM

Quote from: VeritasSapere on December 31, 2015, 05:56:39 PM

Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto

Just a friendly word of advice... It isn't a good idea to create a cult of personality and make persistent appeals to authority. Satoshi was/is a genius and it is easier to revere his opinion, but he also made multiple mistakes and from his programming history wasn't the most competent developer either so could easily ignore many technical nuances. Many of the current core developers are far more competent and proficient technical than Satoshi... and we shouldn't view them as infallible or use appeals to authority to them either.

I agree, and in that spirit, let me state clearly here, that just because Satoshi said these things it does not mean he was right, he could have been wrong as some of the Core developers are now saying. I might agree with the original vision of Satoshi but we do have to be critical and always question ourselfs. I like to believe that is what Satoshi would have wanted us to do. It is true that I often fall into the trap of viewing him as a mythological figure, which is fun but I do need to check myself on that sometimes. Grin