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Point #2 sounds a bit ominous. I'm left wondering where all this will end up lately but it does seem as if these guys care about keeping Bitcoin free of gov influence.
Doesn't anyone else see the irony in the proposed solution to "keeping Bitcoin free of gov influence" is to make sure its only usable by a small group of elite's headed up my MP
Frying pan / Fire.
When your proposed solution is, what, exactly? To transfer influence over the code to an even smaller group of devs, sans their big friend, banking shill Mike Hearn?
Bitcoin already has dozens of devs competing to get good code into the client, and Bitcoin takeover shills (like yourself) can't change that for "Bitcoin Classic" with conceited statements any more than you could for "Bitcoin XT"
No the idea is to decentralize development that way NO group of devs has much influence over the anything but their own implementation.