Quote from: thecrazy1 on March 09, 2017, 03:39:35 PM

Also the statement "Additionally Segwit and lightning benefits nearly everyone who uses Bitcoin, not just one company." should not be made, it is your opinion and again you assume it is correct, when we are trying to judge its correctness. If it was as good as you say it is, then you think that a lot of other people are stupid that they cannot see what you see.

I do think that a lot of people are stupid for ignoring the statements made by other people and other companies. Multiple people not affiliated with Blockstream have said that they think that segwit and lightning will benefit everyone. Multiple companies not affiliated with Blockstream have said that segwit and lightning will benefit their business and products.

Quote from: thecrazy1 on March 09, 2017, 03:39:35 PM

So you are saying there is no overlap between Core developers and https://blockstream.com/team/

No, I never said that. Why do you think I said that or implied that? Do not misconstrue my words for something else.

What I said was that only one Blockstream employee has commit access to Bitcoin Core, and he is not a maintainer. No Blockstream employee controls Bitcoin Core as is oft-repeated by the anti-core group.

Quote from: thecrazy1 on March 09, 2017, 03:39:35 PM

It is related more to having the power to directly influence those who will ultimately make the decision. If they are not part of blockstream then they have equal right as all other developers but when you are to judge on a product your company is working on, you should not have the power of making/influencing the decision.

So you're saying that everyone who works for a company that does stuff related to an open source project should have no say and cannot contribute to the project? Do you realize how absurd that idea is?