[2016-05-07]Bitcoin Core Team Has No Intentions Of Bringing Gavin Andresen Back

[Blawpaw]

Bitcoin Core Team Has No Intentions Of Bringing Gavin Andresen Back

Now that the Craig Wright debacle has calmed down again, there is still the pressing matter of what will happen with Gavin Andresen. After the Bitcoin Core team revoked his commit access, there seems to be no indication of restoring the Bitcoin developer to his precious status...

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[richardsNY]

It's his own fault. It's a shame that a person from his level in the Bitcoin world somewhat backs an imposter claiming he is Satoshi. But him supporting an alternative fork is also part of this. Things add up.

[Quantus]

This makes me soooo happy!

[odolvlobo]

Bitcoin has turned into something out of Lord of the Flies.

[alani123]

Gavin hadn't contributed to Core for a long time, he's free to submit requests as everyone else though. I don't get this has been so overdramatized.

[TraderTimm]

He's a horrible security risk, and frankly after looking at his track record "trusting" people that turn out to be complete crooks or worse, I'd say he can't judge character or intent very well.

I'd rather not have someone who can be hoodwinked in a blink of an eye submitting code to a project as important as Bitcoin. Well, he can try, but right now his credibility is shot all to hell. He might want to get a job at Microsoft, I hear they need help forcing Windows 10 on the world. That seems right up his alley.

[odolvlobo]

He's a horrible security risk ...

Bitcoin is intended to be trustless. If we have to trust a developer, then Bitcoin has failed. Anyway, there is no security risk. If someone commits malicious code, their commit is there for everyone to see.

[alani123]

Even Gavin says it doesn't matter...

https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/728974522544750592

[TraderTimm]

He's a horrible security risk ...

Bitcoin is intended to be trustless. If we have to trust a developer, then Bitcoin has failed. Anyway, there is no security risk. If someone commits malicious code, their commit is there for everyone to see.

I'd expect a different opinion from someone who has witnessed the SSL library debacle. There is a big gap between "everyone can see it" versus actually auditing changes, as many open source teams have discovered much to their chagrin later on.

[yayayo]

This makes me soooo happy!

I feel relieved as well. The behavior of Gavin Andresen (and Mike "Ragequit" Hearn) lead to a truly toxic atmosphere in development and the community as a whole. Now the Core devs will hopefully be able to work with a little less distraction - well they did an amazing job in the last months work even under the toxic atmosphere!

The last year or so, Gavin almost exclusively excelled at pushing media campaigns to instill fear of a looming network collapse if his outright silly big-block scheme would not be approved at once. This was further attempt by him to seize power over Bitcoin development and to enact a privacy-hostile pro-government agenda (the first attempt was The Bitcoin Foundation). Luckily this plan failed, too.

Hopefully Gavin leaves Bitcoin entirely and never returns. Persons who meet with the CIA and are willing to sign NDAs are the exact opposite of what Bitcoin stands for.

ya.ya.yo!