Quote from: Dabs on February 18, 2020, 08:54:02 PM

I read it all @nullius.

The adage (not originally mine) is, If you read it, its for you.

Quote from: Dabs on February 18, 2020, 08:54:02 PM

Maybe we should say the same thing about Jeff Garzik? He, "abandoned" core and tried to set up his own "bitcoin unlimited" or something along those lines.

Indeed, jgarziks political game with BU didnt work out so wellso he became a NYA/2Xer. I just lolled at his current signature: Jeff Garzik, Bloq CEO, former bitcoin core dev team; opinions are my own. (Bold underscore mine.) In 2014 (cough), he was highly trusted and widely admired! Actually, till 2017...

Traitors always evoke an intense feeling of horror and personal violation in those who trusted them. Whenever I think of jgarzik, I think of dooglus comment which I memorialized in this screenshot when I was a Newbie, when I had been actively posting for less than five days: What have you done with the old jgarzik and how much will it cost us to buy him back? This was when 2X tried to subvert the Bitcoin P2P network; committer: jgarzik, whose code is not trustworthy. Read that 28ebbdb commit for details. Underhanded bastard.

Quote from: nullius on December 06, 2017, 05:31:07 AM

Reading in the recent release notes a list of Network fork safety enhancements, I can well imagine the internal monologue which must have gone through some devs head. I need to finally finish this patch for Segwit change address support (plus tests, tests, tests). No wait, first I need to find some ingenious hack to ban fork nodes who lie about their identities so that they can waste node resources and try to subvert the whole network. Network safety first. Sigh.

It requires prodigious engineering effort to produce mission-critical financial software which handles hundreds of billions of dollars worth of value, operates in a hostile network environment, and is never, ever allowed to make the sort of mistake which could drop huge amounts of money on the floor because somebody rushed the change address patch. Im so glad that Core gives this to you, me, and everybody else for free so we can run our businesses, whether or not we pitch in what we can for what is an open-source project.

Quote from: Casimir1904 on December 06, 2017, 02:15:42 AM

For sure i'm not going to invest money to create own work arounds or own patches to core code.

Another one of my Newbie posts, from when I had been actively posting for seventeen days:

Quote from: nullius on December 18, 2017, 11:44:37 PM

You fork, you die.

Genuine Bitcoin has crushed numerous forks and attempted forks: Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Unlimited, Bitcoin Classic, and the New York Agreement (misnamed Segwit2X; nothing to do with Segwit), to name but a few. These no longer exist. For the current outbreak of forks, if you wish to claim some fork coins, then dump them in exchange for real Bitcoin, and enjoy your free bitcoins. Otherwise, simply ignore. Anything from Bitcoin Cash to Bitcoin Super Diamond Plus2X Plutonium With Ponies is only a scam; and these scams will die sooner or later, just as did their antecedents.

There are many pretenders to the Bitcoin title. However:

There is only one Bitcoin.

(Note: Quote changed to refer to an imgur upload of the image that I originally obtained from http://segwit.party/nya/tombstone.jpg)

That tombstone could also read: Here lies Jeff Garziks reputation in Bitcoinland.

Whereas Gavin Andresen is worse, much worse.

JayJuanGee: ++occam

(Not that that negates the likelihood of a leash on the grand-scale scammer and identity thief who seems thus far curiously immune to consequences. I could never get away with what hes been doing for years. Cui bono?)