The evidence is clear, seems the problem is how easy is to control Bitcoin development and whole future of 6 Billion market - just few coders with commit access. Pretty centralized and very weak spot in supposely decentralized project - watch out for more such attacks in future as well if nothing changes - power corrupts people and ultimate power corrupts most.



Gavin is very positively minded person, and his blogs are insightfull. The toxic and negative reactions dont come from him. I checked his 2 MB pull request and well done the work with fixing the possible problems with special over 1 MB transactions could have on exponentional CPU time to validate these. Nicely removing possible attack vector on the 2 MB blocks. The good thing is anybody can merge his work, even Bitcoin Core, we dont need to get stick with Bitcoin Classic if they start adding bad code, code is all what matters, no one is expected to stick with one Bitcoin implementation if you believe they misbehaved - thats the strong part of Bitcoin and many people have hard time changing their whole life experience with trusting/sticking away from one authority like Bitcoin Core in our example.