You apologize, only to spit in my face with more vicious attacks. My Reddit account was compromised at that time, but I quickly regained access to it. I told this fact to a few people who contacted me in concern, and thought the issue was put to rest, but it turns out it's being intentionally resurfaced to discredit me.

And "asking Blockstream for money" because I was "broke"? Seriously? I contacted a whole bunch of businesses about sponsorships for bitcoin.org, something I've done for a while. I've pasted the email below. Your timeline of events is wrong, the compromised posts are from Sept 2017, but this email was sent in May 2016. So it wasn't "a few weeks later" that my Reddit account posted those things. You are being intentionally deceptive, vague and making up timelines to make me seem more erratic and malicious. I might be distrustful of Blockstream (I don't trust most American technology companies, and I didn't trust the Foundation too much either), but when you make up timelines, misconstrue things, and behave like an amateur NSA PSYOP agent, it doesn't help your case.

Back on topic, I think there's two sets of Core users: those who run their node and rarely update it, and the more enthusiastic ones who keep up with upgrades. It might make sense to have a LTS version with more thoroughly tested and vetted consensus critical code (that's proven itself), and a regular version. I think more choice and flexibility could be useful here.

Obviously it won't catch all bugs, there will always be bugs, but it might help minimize it. Though with all the eyes on the code now after the recent bug, especially around optimizations, maybe more people will be ready to point out critical flaws.


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