Not really a stretch in this case

https://twitter.com/lukedashjr/status/1169615995742380035

https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_...

Dude seriously Thinks the pope isn’t catholic and the sun revolves around the earth

He's always stood out in crypto, even in the early days when it was all "colorful" figures.

OMG "vrml dropouts"! ;) That's olde skul.

[anon]>>>>> Does the bitcoin community realize how literally crazy this guy is?

[deleted]>>>> They look the other way. He is by most accounts a talented coder who understands bitcoin's protocol better than most. His eccentricities are alternatively ignored or tolerated, as they are largely (but not always) harmless as far as Bitcoin is concerned.

[deleted]>>>> This tradeoff seems common in fringe libertarian groups. There's always one guy in the group who wants to overthrow the government solely to be able to marry his cousins, and the larger group accepts it because they're not in a position to turn down his assistance.

theskepticalheretic>>> Yeah but that's one hell of a faustian bargain. It wouldn't be too difficult to get a new developer up to speed, or find an equally talented developer who isn't batshit crazy. His craziness drives people away from any project he works on.

Hodldown>> I think you are wrong, I think bitcoin has been looking for real programmers for years but this poor quality of losers, weirdos and vrml dropouts is the best that showed up. I think this is the highest quality a project like this gets.

theskepticalheretic> Well the confounding factor would probably be that experienced high quality programmers have some historical understanding of distributed systems. When they look at bitcoin they chuckle and think "Haha, it's that silly shit from the 90's we used to use to test who had the fastest PC."

Plenty of great programmers are nut jobs.

I personally know at least two sedevancatists who are amazing coders.

Well your code relies on some core tenants or it wont run, and some core ethics of catholicism in history have shifted that wouldnt be valid before, so its reasonable to see how theyd think logically on any topic.

Pre-Vatican II theology is much more rationalist.

Studying Aquinas is much better preparation for programming than studying Barth.

As long as the code he submits is correct, I don't see any issues.

His PGP key got stolen, so someone else could have been submitting code as him.

Hopefully he didn't also lose any SSH keys with push rights to the repo.

except if you check the bitcoin core repo, all the PRs have extensive code reviews done before they're merged. the chance of a supply chain attack (eg. node-ipc) is low.

Are we sure that the code review process hasn’t been compromised if one of the core developers’ key has been?

It seems reasonable that some due diligence in this area be done in light of this discovery.

he doesnt have those keys, and never had. His fellow devs dont trust him too much.

And we know this how?