[2015-09-09] Gavin on Block Size: “It’s Hard to Find a Signal above the Noise"

[LiteCoinGuy]

Gavin Andresen on the Block Size: “It’s Hard to Find a Signal above All the Noise”

Bitcoin XT Developer and Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen was interviewed on Epicenter Bitcoin earlier this week, with the conversation mainly revolving around concepts related to Bitcoin governance. Development of Bitcoin Core has somewhat slowed recently due to the lack of a clear process for reaching development decisions, which is at least part of the reason Andresen joined Mike Hearn’s Bitcoin XT project.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/21870/gavin-andresen-block-size-hard-find-signal-noise/

[Kprawn]

He forgot to mention the US government as one of the major role-players in these discussions. As one of the greatest Bitcoin developers out there and also the previous lead maintainer of Bitcoin development, I

would suggest that he remove himself from the technical advisory board of these exchanges and merchant processors. These people could cloud his judgement with their own agendas.

We have already seen some influence from VC companies backing some of these companies, in trying to create "fake" lists of companies supporting a specific fork. Creating a "smoke screen" for people to think that

it's all different companies. Our developers should all be totally biased, when it comes down to decisions being made towards Bitcoin development. If someone is paying your salary, they already have the

leverage or advantage to steer you in a specific direction. {Now I am not saying Gavin is being paid to do this... I am just making a example or giving a reason, why there should not be close links between

developers and these type of companies.}  

[TraderTimm]

He's just a human, and being a fallible bag of mostly salt-water, Gavin is only finding it difficult "to Find a Signal above the Noise" because he isn't listening to anyone outside his own skull. Except, of course, for lets-centralize-bitcoin-Hearn and whoever has his ear after Gavin's CIA visit. Don't think that is relevant? I sure do, especially after suggesting his fork - hell, not suggesting, after he stomped off with his ball and threw a tantrum to "save bitcoin" from something that hasn't even happened yet.

I get suspicious when people use FEAR to drive a decision, and Gavin has stepped over that line, along with the Hearn-iator. You can bet that any agenda rooted in fear is baseless bullshit, being propelled along by those that would rather not be in the spotlight.

Take your ball and go home Gavin, there are plenty of people who know the Bitcoin codebase and are more fluent in making the hard technical decisions than you are.