Blockstream does not benefit from segwit or lightning. This is an oft-repeated claim that is untrue; Blockstream's work is primarily focused on sidechains, not segwit or lightning. Additionally Segwit and lightning benefits nearly everyone who uses Bitcoin, not just one company.


The Core developers have no way to force everyone to use segwit or lightning. If they were able to, then segwit would have deployed months ago. Furthermore, the Core devs are not working on lightning, other people are doing that, and not under any sort of special instruction from the Core devs to do so.

Only ONE developer who has commit access to the Bitcoin Core repo works for Blockstream. And he is not in charge of Core nor is he a maintainer of the repo.

They did exactly that. In fact, they made 3 BIPs for segwit which were discussed for a long time on the mailing list, on IRC, and changed multiple times throughout segwit's development.

Lightning is different, it does not need a BIP because it does not change any of the Bitcoin protocols. Even so, the people working on lightning are writing up documentation specifying the whole thing, and that also constantly changes and is discussed among multiple developers in public forums (like mailing lists and IRC).

Wherever you are getting your information from is lying to you. They are spreading false information. I highly suggest that you get your information from a different source.