Quote from: Cøbra on September 23, 2018, 11:30:37 PM

You have attacked me with character attacks by viciously claiming on Reddit that I had sold my credentials,

This is the post that you're referring to:

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I get the impression that cobra sold his credentials last year: He put up some sketchy warnings about the binaries on bitcoin.org then went quiet for a long time.

When he came back he started posting some really over the top rbtc conspiracy theory nonsense on reddit. When people moved to take action about it he suddenly said "oh my account was hacked" and dropped it. But the account wasn't use for the kind of petty vandalism that you normally see when a hacked account can't otherwise be used... Since then he's been slowly cranking up the psycho behavior, and right now he seems not far from the sudden behavior of the 'hacked' account.

Given that I'm not surprised to see the BCH pumping, and of course ignoring that whatever "better for payments" argument you can currently make for BCH could better be applied to Litecoin (which also has a lower interblock interval, AND segwit) and yet litecoin has mostly gone nowhere.

FWIW, no one wants a POW change more than Bitmain. They crank out chips privately for even obscure POWs then dump them on the public once they've reached diminishing returns on their own production. With sha256d they're competing against a huge installed base. Moreover, Bitmain has gone around unethically and unlawfully claiming patents on basic mining techniques like series wiring the chips to reduce convert costs which were in use prior to Bitmain and where any competitive mining device for any POW would adopt the same techniques.

I apologize for insulting you, it was really not my goal. I'm not sure what else I was supposed to think when one day you're asking blockstream for money (and suggesting bitcoin.org/maybe you were broke) and then later [edit: I thought it was a few weeks, but it may just be that I only noticed the message then or there might have been more than one. I no longer have my blockstream account so I can't tell] started posting things like Merchant adoption will come naturally once people realize that the other coin is crippled by Blockstream and /u/nullc and that they can't transact without paying outrageous transaction fees. [...] Of course bitcoin.org should be changed to embrace Bitcoin Cash. Blockstream coin is not Bitcoin. [...] It's a form of censorship by Blockstream Core. [...] This is what AXA invested in them for, to cripple the network. . I'd never seen you say anything like that before. And even more recently you continue to say things that look a lot like it to me, also, also, also (especially weird since you yourself told us downloads on bitcoin.org were unsafe, you seemed to think alternative downloads were a good idea, and then a year later are angry about it), also, also. It's okay for you to go around suggesting "compromised by the NSA" without not a single shred of evidence, but you think it's toxic for me to say that I "get [an] impression" and point out an apparent radical change in your behaviour? Sad

Theymos says he thinks you've been consistent all along, I trust him to know, but it's not like my comments were coming out of nowhere. I had no reason to dislike you previously, in fact almost the sum total of my other interaction with you was stepping up to defend you when I thought people were unfairly attacking you after you said something easily misunderstood (like the 'revise the whitepaper' thing).

Why do you find it so insulting that I wondered if you sold your credentials -- with an explanation of my concerns-- after you start attacking someone whos done AFAIK nothing but support you previously but seem to think it's okay to spread worse claims about other people?

I'd say "what would you do in my shoes"-- but it seems like the answer is that you'd make accusations and not even provide evidence. Is that really your intent?

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but I remember you

Memory is a tricky thing. In fact, when writing the above I thought you multiple times also posted additional things that turned out to actually be people that responded to the things above agreeing with your attacks, but which weren't actually said by you-- sorry about that, but at least I haven't accused you of those things because I actually checked.

I am one of the only project contributors who actually takes the time to even try to communicate with people who seem to be significantly confused. 99.9% of the time other people will just ignore them completely. I don't think it helps improve the level of discourse if everyone puts themselves in a high castle and doesn't even hear out their opposition or respect them enough to even argue the case. But at least when I'm critical of your actions I'm willing to be precise enough that you can defend or contextualize them... or even admit a mistake. I've certainly made mistakes, but at least I've tried to do something good. I fee like your comments here-- with name calling like "incompetent"-- are saying that you'd prefer a world where no one does anything (except maybe insult and conspiracy theorize about others), because if the they do enough good things you'll ignore all that and attack them for the few things that could be improved. If that isn't what you're going for, I'd really like you to help me understand where you're coming from.

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But in Bitcoin Core, developers can work in their own branches with total freedom, and no red tape,

And no review, which was my point.

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IMO there's no harm in making this step slightly longer

Perhaps, but I don't see how slightly longer connects with your post. Already the major release cycle is six months long. This issue took two years to discover, making the cycle seven months long would not have made it get detected. But it might plausibly make people take review less seriously. I guess my point there is that we've already made it a lot more than slightly longer, and tapped out the benefit from doing so, further increases might tip us further into the realm of costs exceeding benefits and there are other things we can do that don't add delays but would do more to prevent serious problems.