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https://mobile.twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/871682135278661633

Gavin Andresen, the guy that has been trying to push trojan horses into bitcoin ever since satoshi disappeared and he visited the CIA for a picnic.

One of the greatest hits by Gavin Andresen:

https://coinjournal.net/gavin-andresen-mike-hearn-will-be-the-benevolent-dictator-of-bitcoinxt/

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-xt-fork-can-blacklist-tor-exits-may-reveal-users-ip-addresses

http://shitco.in/2015/08/19/the-bitcoin-xt-trojan/

http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/05/19/according-gavin-andresen-running-full-bitcoin-node-waste-resources/


This guy has been a joke and an obvious gov shill for ages. Of course he will say Greg was a huge mistake, since he was contributed to avoid Bitcoin turning into disasters like the XT or BUg ones.

Nice try buddy... Gavin's done nothing but good. 

Greg and his blockstream buddies are the once who refused to increase the blocks and instead created SegShit, an obvious distraction (with 95% consensus that wont happen) in order to stall for years, because they are deathly afraid of simple, effective on chain scaling that would remove their reason for having a company and getting millions in venture capital from companies like AXA who is quite happy to slow down Bitcoin.

Did you even take the time to read those links? They wanted to turn bitcoin into a shithole with a "benevolent dictator". He also wants to take away the power of full validating nodes out from people so only datacenters can run full nodes so governments can switch off the network or mold it into whatever they want bitcoin to be (since users have 0 say anymore).

Anyone defending that mess is a terrorist against bitcoin .

Read all those a while ago.

"Dictator of BitcoinXT" is not the same as "Dictator of Bitcoin".  You can write your client "billybob wallet" and you'll be the dictator of it.

Most users should be running SPV wallets , not full nodes.

https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/why-every-bitcoin-user-should-understand-spv-security-520d1d45e0b9

Stop lying about governments and datacenters.  To shut down Bitcoin, you have to shut down MINERS.  Listening nodes won't matter that much. 

Mr Andresen is now senile. Bless his previous acts. And this thread will be the same people saying the same things in perpetuity. Have fun, kiddies. And do something more constructive?

and you say this because ____?

The non-existent "power of validating nodes" is one of the two weak excuses that pushers for off-chain transactions have propagated in order to push people off the chain ; the other one is that "only soft forks are allowed".  These two excuses serve to cripple bitcoin's chain with the blunder Satoshi committed with his 1 MB block limit ; blunder Satoshi thought was easy to adapt if the need was there, but which has been the opportunity to asphyxiate the on-chain transactions to push them to off-chain (or alt-coin) transactions.

Yes, of course, if it is absolutely necessary to have Joe run his node on his old PC with a 320 GB disk in his basement on his 56K modem, then bitcoin is crippled out of the box, true.  It wasn't even necessary to make a genesis block in that case, it was sure to fail.  Luckily, Satoshi crippled bitcoin, thinking one would be able to remove the limit if needed, not realizing that someone - that is to say, his heir -  would see an advantage in crippling bitcoin and keeping this limit, to push his own pet project.

The third weak excuse is that there won't be any subsidies in 120 years so we need a fee market today.