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Gavin Andresen will do an AMA on 8btc, 19PM(GMT+8), 21st April

https://i.imgur.com/doZ2FVd.jpg


Please leave your questions in the following link. (English question will be translated into Chinese)
http://8btc.com/thread-31877-1-1.html

More about Gavin's story could be found on the documentary movie The rise and rise of bitcoin

Interesting, perhaps he can answer about the hype that is going on around bitcoin classic.

I heard there was some backdoor meeting between miners and classic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4erzud/ama_gavin_andresen_on_8btc_scaling_bitcoin_april/

He has most of the bigger Bitcoin merchants convinced that Classic will be the best solution for their problems for about 3 months, and now he is shifting his attention to the miners. If he can get their support, Classic will be the next hard fork.

This whole thing are playing out like a election campaign for a new president. I see some similarity between him and Trump at the moment. ^hmmmmm^

haha, it is so funny because i was just about to ask this question about why he is doing in on 8btc.com which is a Chinese platform and it doesn't even have an English version (at least i cannot find any switch to En on their first page). then i saw your reply and now i know 8)

who cares?

China have too many miners and speculators to be ignored.

after all gavin give to us,and then he trying to build his reputation back,its funny. and we are never forget about what he said about bitcoin death,and i think not many people about this.

He did a previous AMA here - https://forum.bitcoin.com/ama-ask-me-anything/i-m-gavin-andresen-bitcoin-geek-ask-me-anything-t1990.html

Will he reply in Chinese this time ?

That guy is a joke!!!!Attentention whore and big manipulator and schemer!!The way he speaks, behaves and laughs on stage is so fake!!
I'm waiting for his whiny rage quit to be honest!
That's all you need to know!

8BTC.com has been around for a VERY LONG time, with very serious Bitcoin supporters.


From this 2013 article:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-pirates-of-8btc-implement-the-idea-of-distributed-autonomous-corporations-1383165373

You are a joke; a late adopter nobody with an 'opinion'.

If he is, so is BTC. M.Andersen has been the public face of BTC for many years, and he's probably the most respected BTC developer, only behind the unknown Satoshi. Sometimes, I wish he would still be in charge, there would be less of the governance problems BTC's going through.

We have translators and volunteers to help with the translation.

Thanks for organising this. Will the question and answers in Chinese be translated back to English? Hoping to find out what are the current concerns that Chinese miners and bitcoiners have on Bitcoin Classic.

Yes, Qs and As will all be translated into bilingual form.

He"s an awesome guy,saw him on cnbc or cnn couple a months ago.

Something you need to know is Gavin. I doubt you have ever met him or have any inkling about coding. So how would you know?

+1, the guy got Bitcoin through it's toughest phase. I'm sure there will be a long list of key people to Bitcoin in the years to come and that list starts with Satoshi, then Gavin. Good bloke, hope the AMA goes well.

Will there be a copy of this stored somewhere to read in English?
Was going to ask for video but realized that would be a no go.

Interested in what comes out of this because I really have not used core yet but plan to when I use a new setup and the issues around it seem to be big.

Andresen's credibility was sacrificed long ago, let's not forget that the XT/Mike Hearn episode was actually begun by Andresen on his blog, and involved both Andresen and Hearn tag-teaming. And when 2MB/Hearn failed, Andresen played turncoat again by joining the next 2MB failure. Fail fail fail.


Who cares if he committed other peoples good quality code for a few years, it all comes across as a long term confidence trick to turn Bitcoin against itself ("Gavin tried so hard, but even 500 terabyte blocksizes couldn't solve Bitcoin's problems"). Murder, but all with the best of intentions, of course. ::)

frankly i'm getting tired of acting like we need to keep walking on eggshells around this. he should simply be ostracized.

gavin is fucking scum.

No! Say it isn't so!

Didn't you hear about the time he pretended to be Satoshi to collect some meaningless award? How could such a super-fun-guy dressed up in his lab coat and coke-bottle glasses possibly be against Bitcoin? Gavin Andresen is the most insidious force levelled against Bitcoin that exists today, he's just been playing a psychologically sophisticated "long game".

Why would anyone want to ask him questions without the possibility of other experts debunking his opinions inmediately. Sounds like it's just another platform for him to sell some Bitcoin Classic.

just ask if it's true.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=224

Gavin has nothing to do with Core, he's part of a rogue team that is pretending to "fix" Core..... oh no wait, now that particular coup attempt failed, he's promoting himself as a Core developer again. And endorsing all the technologies in the Core roadmap. Except when he's promoting 2 MegaBloat Classic to 8btc.com, that is ::) Must get confusing, pretending to be and think so many contradictory things, eh Gavin?

Not so confusing once you are accostumed to doublethink! BigBlocks are doubleplusgood!

2 hours away from the AMA. over 60 questions have been raised.

how can the rest of us who don't know Chinese can follow the AMA and maybe ask questions?

it is strange to me because i have always seen AMA on reddit and only in English, a language that most of the people in the world use whereas Chinese will restrict it to a small portion of people!

any link between Gavin and this?

https://petertodd.org/2016/mit-chainanchor-bribing-miners-to-regulate-bitcoin

Gavin is on the salary list of MIT, right?

uhm wait. he visited NSA in 2011 and immediately after this SN disappeared?

by the way. it seems Gavin is not unexperienced with backroom deals:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=224

We have seasoned translators attempting to bridge the east and the west.

Could you please post the question to the thread: http://8btc.com/thread-31877-1-1.html

where is the interface in English language?

link?

im not able to ask the following because of this interface in Chinese language only:




anyone able to assist?



EDIT: sorry I have to correct something.

Gavin visited the CIA not the NSA.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6652.0


there is also no prove that this event forced SN to disappear. maybe SN disappeared earlier. but it seems the last email from Gavin to SN was about the CIA visit. SN never responded ever again.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113609.0

Is there a video documentary for this? I'd like to check it out a bit.

C'mon! He's not Trump. And he's done more to help BTC than anyone apart from Satoshi.

he/they failed hardly!

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/supporters-of-mb-bitcoin-blocks-unable-to-convince-miners-to-hard-fork-in-beijing-meeting-1461004264

What hype? Classic is dying every day. Gavin Andresen tried to convince the chinese miners to raise the blocksize and he failed. Also there are rumors that Core related people were kicked out of the meeting or simple entrance was forbidden for them. Why this secrecy? Maybe they didn't want contrarians to their blocksize increase policy?

Gavin what country do you view as the most favourable to Bitcoin :)

thx for the long AMA, good stuff.

I've asked this myself as well.
And to be honest it wouldn't surprise me!
Imo Gavin is shady as hell! Everytime he does some presentation or giving a talk somewhere I have the feeling he is acting!
The way he speaks, his faked laughter and so on. It doesn't seem to be natural imo.

Gavin Andresen was Satoshi's biggest mistake.

He may have started as a "chief scientist" (whatever that means), but now he is the Chief Saboteur, a bankster and statist bootlicker.

Gavin tells Satoshi he'll be visiting the CIA, and Satoshi disappears... Nothing strange there.

Seemingly fake demeanor too. We can only speculate on motivations, but his actions speak for themselves (except to his unthinking followers who are looking for a "leader").

The guy got a taste of some power and influence and now he is on a power trip... He underestimated the support he had, when he teamed up with Mike Hearn. I guess there were more haters than

admirers for Mike Hearn and that caused XT to fail. He quickly jumped ship on XT and then created something more acceptable to the average Bitcoin user. {Classic} in the hope that he might gain

some favor and get back into the driving seat. The miners can possibly be his last chance to get back in the Bitcoin bus.  ::)

Questions and answers translated:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p3DWMfeGHBL6pk4Hu0efgQWGsUAdFNK6zLHubn5chJo/edit?pref=2&pli=1

Thanks to cnLedger
https://twitter.com/cnLedger/status/723156199777046529