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Re:Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin de... by haakon on Monday January 22, 2018 @01:38PM (#16206712)
> The BTC chain's devs mostly work for Blockstream

This is not true, at all. Only one of the regular Bitcoin Core contributors, Pieter Wuille, works at Blockstream. Other companies, Chaincode in particular (http://chaincode.com/#team) have many more Bitcoin Core developers.

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Re:Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin de... by colordrops on Monday January 22, 2018 @02:14PM (#16207033)
If you are going to correct someone you shouldn't lie:

Current and former Blockstream employees that work on core or have worked on core:

* Dr. Pieter Wuille

* Greg Maxwell (CTO)

* Andrew Poelstra

* Mark Friedenbach (Founder)

* Luke Jr (Contractor for Blockstream)'

* Jorge Timón (Founder)

* Patrick Strateman (core tech engineer)

* ฿tcDrak (anonymous dev, but publicly support blockstream)

The list is more extensive than this, but I can't be bothered to waste my time. Your propaganda and lies are disgusting.

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Re:Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin de... by haakon on Monday January 22, 2018 @02:32PM (#16207169)
Wow, I was going by who currently works for Blockstream, and who contributes to Core. Your list is not that. Luke was never an employee at Blockstream, Poelstra doesn't contribute to Core, Maxwell has left, BtcDrak only "supports" Blockstream, in your opinion etc. Perhaps Timón is still there, and I'm very sorry if I forgot him. I assure you it was not on purpose, and I'm sorry to see that you assume bad faith. I didn't mean to be "disgusting".
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Re:Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin de... by colordrops on Monday January 22, 2018 @07:19PM (#16209571)
Luke works for Blockstream as a contractor. Does that not count? Still seems like a conflict of interest.

Maxwell JUST left a few days ago and spent plenty of time at both Blockstream and Bitcoin Core simultaneously.

Timon is still there.

You also left out Strateman.

In any case, your strong assertion that only one contributor works at Blockstream is flat out wrong and easily shown to be wrong by anyone with 2 minutes to google.

You seem to know all these people, which indicates intentional deception rather than ignorance.

I use the word "disgusting" because the choking off of BTC is an intentional play to further a greedy business model and not just an act of stupidity.

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