Clear evidence of Blockstream controlling the Core code base to prevent block size increase can be seen here, someone offered to help increasing the blocksize, but the issue was closed immediately by sipa (Pieter Wuille, Blockstream co-founder):
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/10028You can see Pieter Wuille closed the issue immediately but then try to justify it with the usual corporate double speak by claiming the issue is up to the community and out of his hand.
This is what we call 'lying'.
Many of us have been trying to point out the truth for some time with frustrating results.
It is like pointing out that the emperor has no clothes and then being laughed at like you're crazy.
But eventually, reality catches up and it seems the tide is turning.
the thing is they know the emperor is naked. but they think.. if they kiss his naked ass they may get part of the emperors $70m.
the issue is for years they will play games arguing that he is clothed just to avoid talking about his nakedness because they want to distract and abstract the conversation of the nakedness subject
but yea eventually they will realise that the $70m is not a pot of gold for future employment chances. but debt that the emperor needs to repay. and all the suck ups realise they have be loyal to DEBT while trying to destroy real ASSETS