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Or should I say, a "conspiracy theory?". Hahaha. Tinfoil hats on. 
This topic should be fun to discuss, especially for some of us that came here to learn about Bitcoin during the small blocks, big blocks "scalability debate". I used to believe that Core should compromise, and hard fork to 2mb block sizes! What did I know, I was a newbie. Haha!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1091099725925888000.html
Did you know: Between 2010 and 2013 former Mike Hearn, then a tech lead at Googles offices in Zurich, Switzerland, designed a security system that was later tapped by the NSA and GCHQ. The Snowden leaks revealed the existence of the surveillance taps in late 2013.
Did you know: Craig S Wright a.k.a. Faketoshi works with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on tracking users etc?
Did you know: Gavin Andresen worked with the CIA, explaining details on bitcoin etc?
Now what was the one thing Mike Hearn, Craig Wright and Gavin Andresen were pushing in bitcoin ... and why?
Big Blocks .. because that undermines Bitcoin's P2P / decentralized nature, and forces Bitcoin back onto a central server that can be easily controlled and/or taken down (as indeed happened with some Bitcoin predecessors, and many altcoins like Ethereum/Infura, Ripple etc).
Opinions?
This topic should be fun to discuss, especially for some of us that came here to learn about Bitcoin during the small blocks, big blocks "scalability debate". I used to believe that Core should compromise, and hard fork to 2mb block sizes! What did I know, I was a newbie. Haha!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1091099725925888000.html
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Did you know: Between 2010 and 2013 former Mike Hearn, then a tech lead at Googles offices in Zurich, Switzerland, designed a security system that was later tapped by the NSA and GCHQ. The Snowden leaks revealed the existence of the surveillance taps in late 2013.
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Did you know: Craig S Wright a.k.a. Faketoshi works with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on tracking users etc?
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Did you know: Gavin Andresen worked with the CIA, explaining details on bitcoin etc?
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Now what was the one thing Mike Hearn, Craig Wright and Gavin Andresen were pushing in bitcoin ... and why?
Big Blocks .. because that undermines Bitcoin's P2P / decentralized nature, and forces Bitcoin back onto a central server that can be easily controlled and/or taken down (as indeed happened with some Bitcoin predecessors, and many altcoins like Ethereum/Infura, Ripple etc).
Opinions?