Quote from: tvbcof on October 24, 2014, 10:19:31 PM

Quote from: brg444 on October 24, 2014, 07:52:47 PM

They have banded together [nominally under the Bitstream banner] because they believe this proposal adds considerable value to Bitcoin's infrastructure. Nothing more.
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The makeup of this group makes them vastly more credible than Mikin 'red-list' Hearndresen and the Bitcoin Foundation circle-jerkers. I would absolutely consider their work on Bitcoin to be the mainline branch and TBF-associated 'enhancements' to be a side-branch if/when push came to shove. And very possibly a hostile side-branch. Hopefully the big miners are clued in and still independent enough to see things the same way.

If Peter Todd came up with a workable generic shared ledger, especially one which employed treechain methods, I'd consider it a (very interesting) alt-ish type thing.

Blockstream:
sipa
bluematt
gmaxwell

BitPay:
jgarzik

TBF:
gavinandresen

Viacoin:
Peter Todd

Independent:?
wumpus (current lead dev)

... plus large number of 'vested-interest' coders making commits, comments and ready to pounce on BS.

I don't see any issues at present.