There's a lot of people that have deep hatred for theymos because he banned them, and they accuse him of being an evil actor in the community, yet, I haven't seen anyone getting banned for no logical reason. Most people that get banned is due spamming 100's of messages per hour, or spamming links etc. This forum is cool because is very permissive if you are posting in the right section.
The reddit is another story because I barely use it, but I haven't seen clear evidence of theymos being a tyrannical dictator. /r/bitcoin is about satoshi's client mostly, and satoshi didn't want other competing clients himself. Im ok with discussing the other clients but I remember an obvious shilling campaign for other clients while indiscriminately FUDding back in the XT days, and that had to be stopped.
from all the drama of the last 3 years theymos has been more famous about censoring any chatter thats CORE ngative or non-cor positive,
core was just a brand invented in 2013 from one of the forks that started in 2010 (july 2010 to be precise) its not the original 'satoshi client', even if it pretends to be
yep satoshis original was a sourceforge that continued right until winter 2010.
yet the github was gavins implementation of bitcoin which started summer 2010 meaning the github version was a second implementation. not the single brand of satoshi from (sourceforge).
satoshi continued to work on source forge version right upto december 2010..
where as others used git hub.. and forked their own. aswell (there have been 7993 variants of the github since 2010)
the one that was made by and managed by gavin in 2010 got a rebrand in 2013 and that was the birth of 'core'
the birth was to separate it from being confused with the network protocol.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3203This has been discussed a lot before, but the following is the proposal by @gavinandresen and I agree:
Bitcoin-Qt --> btcore (full name 'Bitcoin Core')
bitcoind --> btcored (full name 'Bitcoin Core Daemon')
bitcoin-cli --> btcore-cli (full name 'Bitcoin Core CLI Client')
Bitcoin-the-system has always been abbreviated as 'bc', not 'bt' - wouldn't 'bccore'* make more sense here?
I think it would be better to keep Bitcoin-Qt and bitcoind more distinct. After all, someone may develop another GUI client sharing the same codebase someday as well.
because the 'protocol' became much bigger than one brand/control point