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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by jlrubin on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:35PM (#15032988)
> the current bitcoin developers

Rusty, I'd suggest to replace that with "a significant number of current bitcoin developers". There are Bitcoin Developers who may support the 2MB fork. "The current bitcoin developers" don't really make any centralized decisions on what to support or not.

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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by nullc on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:52AM (#15034338)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support

I'm also aware of no person with more than 5 years experience developing the Bitcoin protocol or it's implementations who have ever been in support of it.

Lots of people are supportive of various capacity increase things without being supported by the reckless last minute backdoor dealing. More comments can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6h612o/can_someone...

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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by toomim on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:02AM (#15034387)
You are not aware

Jeff Garzick is a developer?

This is a haiku.

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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by kobeya on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:26AM (#15035696)
Maybe emeritus, but he hasn't been doing bitcoin reference client development since 2012.
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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by toomim on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:29PM (#15038858)
He's currently the lead developer of the btc1 reference client: https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/tree/segwit2x

Here are his recent commits: https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/commits/segwit2x

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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by kobeya on Thursday August 17, 2017 @06:12PM (#15041519)
btc1 != bitcoin.
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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by toomim on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:00AM (#15078877)
It's a bitcoin wallet. Just like bitcoin core.

Bitcoin-core != Bitcoin.

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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by nadaviv on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:04PM (#15033485)
The sentiment in the global technical bitcoin community is definitely against segwit2x, very strongly so. There may be some very few outliers, but the big picture is quite clear.

See: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support#Developers

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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by wmf on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:43PM (#15033659)
Notably, that page doesn't list Jeff Garzik.
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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by kobeya on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:25AM (#15035690)
Who hasn't been contributing to the bitcoin reference client in years.
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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by toomim on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:30PM (#15038866)
He's the lead developer of the btc1 Bitcoin Reference client. Here are his recent commits: https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/tree/segwit2x
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