Quote from: anunymint on June 25, 2018, 09:37:22 AM

Quote from: Last of the V8s on June 25, 2018, 08:33:21 AM

Quote from: Wind_FURY on June 25, 2018, 07:56:10 AM

This is off topic but how do the Bitcoin Core developers react to Mircea Popescu's statements? Do they take him seriously? Are there old topics or logs on them?

Plus what kind of node does he run if his belief is that the Bitcoin Core software today is "not Bitcoin"?

Carefully and rarely. Yes. Yes.

http://thebitcoin.foundation/ http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=trb

Wind_FURY, I read that you have a high degree of confidence in Core. Did you see where I explained that Gregory Maxwell was incorrect about the Ogg sound protocol he was supposed to be an expert in since he was a core developer on one of the popular codecs?

Yes I do. They have been maintaining a decentralized multibillion network and protocol, and I believe they have been doing fine in their decisions so far, apart from the critics saying that "they might break the network" in theory.

Plus you said you make mistakes. Gmaxwell also did, if he did. I would not know.

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Core has some guys with reasonably high IQs. Maybe up in the 145 range or so. But I would roughly guess that Mircea Popescu is in the 160 - 180 IQ range. There was some brief attempt by Gregory Maxwell to grandstand in a discussion thread and Mircea Popescu wiped him with the floor. It wasnt even close. Gregory then proceeded to STFU. He had actually banned M.P. from some discussion or something (back when M.P. was still willing to communicate outside his own IRC freenode), I forgot the details. I dont have time to go searching for that specific discussion. The difference is akin to the digitization of flowers example I showed you (see quote below). We can presume that Mircea Popescu has surrounded himself with other such geniuses and it is unlikely they are mistaken. Note rpietila has an IQ of 167, and I have no idea what happened to my friend. Ive been too overloaded to apply the effort into researching whether he is faking losing all his wealth or if he has mental stability problems. So by that I mean genius IQ is not the sole factor. Another issue is the socialization of the Core developers who have ostensibly adopted progressive, social justice philosophy (i.e. irrational belief in democracy and other psychosis) which thus blinds them to new objectivity of John Nashs Ideal Money.

With your high IQs, do you believe that you, Mircea and rpietila would make a good replacement for the Core developers?

Are you confident that you can "make Bitcoin great again"?