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Quote from: spooderman on February 15, 2016, 08:20:03 PM

where's trolfi these days?

he's hanging out on reddit surprisingly he's defending our beloved Bitcoin to the bitter end.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/45rqb3/heres_adam_back_stalling_master_hei_gavin_lets/czzykx4?context=3

No he's insulting Bitcoin and advocating GavinCoin

GavinCoin WTF is that, Gavin is the longest standing developer he's taking heat for personal attacks, the only questionable thing hes done is visit the CIA and the CFR, and that was to tell them how bitcoin worked.

You just need to look at what he's produced to know he's pro bitcoin.

GavinCoin means squat, try looking for facts!

Personally, in earlier days (even just a few months ago) when I had heard Gavin speak, I had frequently thought that he came off as genuine, a neutral presenter and truly interested in the success of bitcoin.

Mostly, he still comes off as being fairly smart; however, it appears that his steadfast quest for a blocksize increase, has detracted from some of his credibility concerning whether he really is interested in the success of bitcoin or whether he is allowing some hidden agenda matters fog his presentation, especially that he's no longer seeming to present information in a neutral way, but instead spinning in order to attempt to get his way (that it's imperative that block size needs to be increased and bitcoin's governance be tweaked)

https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-282-bitcoin-classic-with-gavin-andresen

The above link to a recent interview (this week). Sure Gavin agrees that seg wit is good invention, but he also suggests that seg wit is less important and useful than an outright blocksize increase (which is fairly obvious partisanship on his behalf because he is talking conclusory rather than really engaging with the various benefits that seg wit seems posed to bring to the bitcoin space).

By not discussing the differences between soft fork and hard fork, he also seems to be suggesting that a hardfork is necessary (almost acting as if it inevitable) and framing his presentations in such a way in which all outcomes assume some kind of hardfork is going to take place (seems a fairly big assumption).. The reality of the matter is that a hard fork is not necessary under a number of scenarios, and he seems to be ignoring the possible non hardfork scenarios. For example, if the same can be achieved by softfork, then that would likely be the better route to take, especially if you value allowing for productive continued development of the bitcoin space and for supporting of a consensus seeking precedent in bitcoin.

Maybe Gavin is feeling a bit burned in his recent attempts at being a "benevolent dictator" (his words, not mine) and even Gavin having had asserted that a benevolent dictator would be a good thing for bitcoin in the short term. In September 2015, he was going around asserting that Mike Hearn would be the benevolent dictator of XT (assuming XT would be hardforked into becoming the "new" bitcoin). I mean, jesus fucking christ, a guy has to lose some credibility in the community by the subsequent rage quit of someone who just a few months earlier would have had the potential of becoming the "benevolent dictator" of the "new" bitcoin.

Anyhow, Gavin comes off as a bit bitter about bitcoin consensus and bitcoin governance and seems to strongly suggest that bitcoin's governance has to be fixed, but then is a bit dodgy about that being the problem and continuing to insist that a technical fix is an emergency, while at the same time taking digs at the "broken" nature of bitcoin's governance .

In any event, his various assumptions and presentations of issues are losing their coherence and interferes with his objectivity and credibility as a trustworthy speaker.

Bitcoin governance does not have to "be fixed" in any way.
It is working perfectly and any attempt at highjacking it will miserably fail.