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$55 mio pumped directly to some core devs. the very heart of bitcoin. is this good for the price of bitcoin?

I have been reading the article from coindesk about this $55 million investment, but I can't find anything about that the money is going to core devs....??

http://www.coindesk.com/blockstream-55-million-series-a/

The article says the money is going to Blockstream.

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Blockstream has raised $55m in Series A funding to continue its work expanding the bitcoin code base for commercial use.

Blockstream was co-founded by the Bitcoin core developer Gregory Maxwell and Dr Adam Back who invented hashcash, which is the the proof-of-work system used in bitcoin. They want to fork Bitcoin to support their sidechains technology.

i understood core were the "no-hard-fork" guys...

they propose an economic hard-fork (aka economic change event by jeff garzik: http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011973.html)

It seems to me like they are setting up an environment where other companies can get involved in the future.
The $55 million itself is good, but the potential for a LOT more is more importnant

People spend to much energy on the idea of forking or not forking. In the end it doesn't really matter.