Pretty much, yes. If not "more", then a huge chunk of the influence.
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So what would your proposal be (if we disregard the "alternative implementations"), remove commit access, ban them from working on the code due to Blockstream? How do you reduce this "influence" that you claim is present? There has to be a way of reverting it else you're the one who's being closed minded about this and not me, right?
As a side note, I heard that Greg recently gave up his commit access. If that
is true and he did it to reduce conflict of interest, I applaud that but I think
it doesn't reduce his influence much.
I think that he did; not sure right now (I'll verify it as I'm curious). It makes sense when the community (parts of it) is essentially backstabbing you because of a single disagreement.
GAVIN: MIT, COINBASE (Probably USG)
WLADIMIR: MIT (ibid.)
JEFF: BITPAY (I think)
PIETER: BLOCKSTREAM (Probably evil)
I think some live in a delusion where only people related to Blockstream could be evil and have an agenda (no, not talking about you). There is a possibility that every single one of them has a hidden agenda and whatnot (including everyone who works at Blockstream). We can't rule anyone out.