Gavin Andresen AMA happening now.

[gentlemand]

For anyone interested Gavin Andresen is doing a AMA on one of those suspicious forums that aren't this one.

https://forum.bitcoin.com/ama-ask-me-anything-f69/i-m-gavin-andresen-bitcoin-geek-ask-me-anything-t1990.html

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[neurotypical]

Im honestly too lazy to register in another forum, but I would love if someone can ask him what does he pretend to do in the case of the blocksize being too big so that average people can't run a node? Why is he ok with centralizing Bitcoin nodes when mining is already centralized? I assume someone has already asked him 40 questions about the blocksize so im going to start reading the 7 pages to see what happened.

[gentlemand]

I'd say it was worth a registration. There'll be plenty more. It's not like Reddit where it's heaving with morons who've drifted in from elsewhere. Most people signed up on there will be pretty clued up and it seems like all of the questions are being addressed.

[Tstar]

Mon Nov 02, 2015 3:14 pm

Hi Gavin,

Favorite video game all time?

Favorite book all time?

Favorite movie all time?

Theres only so many Bitcoin questions to ask, I've seen/read so much about your views I feel I know what you might answer.

So I went a little "off topic"! (hope thats ok)

these are very important questions!
 

I discovered this only today thanks to you gentlemand

Yes, I really did give away 10,000 bitcoin through the Bitcoin Faucet. No, sorry, they're all gone, I don't have any more to give away.

[gentlemand]

I discovered this only today thanks to you gentlemand

Yes, I really did give away 10,000 bitcoin through the Bitcoin Faucet. No, sorry, they're all gone, I don't have any more to give away.

People seem to enjoy labeling him as an android piloted by three letter agencies but you'd be hard pressed to point out many others who've done more to advance the scene.   

[unamis76]

Is this really Gavin? Was it verified? I've never heard of this new Bitcoin forum...

[gentlemand]

 It's run by Roger Ver on Bitcoin.com so everyone is certainly who they claim to be.

[pereira4]

I discovered this only today thanks to you gentlemand

Yes, I really did give away 10,000 bitcoin through the Bitcoin Faucet. No, sorry, they're all gone, I don't have any more to give away.

People seem to enjoy labeling him as an android piloted by three letter agencies but you'd be hard pressed to point out many others who've done more to advance the scene.   

I think Gavin Andersen is generally a good guy and genuinely wants the best for Bitcoin, and when he says bigger blocks are a good idea he genuinely thinks that's the case. Mike Hearn on the other hand, for some reason makes me thing that he has an agenda. In any case I would expect such 2 intelligent individuals to understand how "specialization" in running full nodes is a big mistake.

[mixan]

Mon Nov 02, 2015 3:14 pm

Hi Gavin,

Favorite video game all time?

Favorite book all time?

Favorite movie all time?

Theres only so many Bitcoin questions to ask, I've seen/read so much about your views I feel I know what you might answer.

So I went a little "off topic"! (hope thats ok)

these are very important questions!
 

I discovered this only today thanks to you gentlemand

Yes, I really did give away 10,000 bitcoin through the Bitcoin Faucet. No, sorry, they're all gone, I don't have any more to give away.

Those questions look like something that would be asked to a boy band during an interview for sweet16 magazine or whatever the teenagers are reading now.  
Seriously, after this is done on the other forum (which I will not be registering on) will someone post the Q&A details here that are more relevant then the sarcastic ones listed. Just a jab at you. No harshness intended.

[Tstar]

Mixan I was utterly sarcastic up there. I just wanted to point out what you said. Maybe that was not clear.

That post discouraged me.

However, talking to gentlemand:
do you have anything to read regarding the android and the agencies? I would be interested in finding out more.

[LiteCoinGuy]

Mon Nov 02, 2015 3:14 pm

Hi Gavin,

Favorite video game all time?

Favorite book all time?

Favorite movie all time?

Theres only so many Bitcoin questions to ask, I've seen/read so much about your views I feel I know what you might answer.

So I went a little "off topic"! (hope thats ok)

these are very important questions!
 

I discovered this only today thanks to you gentlemand

Yes, I really did give away 10,000 bitcoin through the Bitcoin Faucet. No, sorry, they're all gone, I don't have any more to give away.

fun and personal questions are of course not allowed.  


/s

do you know what AMA means?

[Velkro]

Too bad it isn't in reddit. Reddit is easier to read than this bitcoin.com forum :/

[acquafredda]

If he really is Gavin and apparently he is we could post the most interesting Q&A of this AMA in here.
It would be a good reference for us.

[MemoryDealers]

If you don't register on the other forum,  you are missing out on the greatest Bitcoin AMA ever!

Nov 2nd, Gavin Andresen, Core Developer, Bio, 9AM Eastern Standard Time
Nov 2nd, Jeremy Allaire CEO of Circle 11:30AM Eastern Standard Time
Nov 3rd, Wences Casares, CEO of XAPO 8AM Pacific Standard Time
Nov 3rd, Kristov Atlas, Open Bitcoin Privacy Project 10AM Eastern Standard Time
Nov 4th Juan Garavaglia, CEO of RootStock.io
Nov 4th, Patrick Byrne CEO of Overstock & tØ.com, 1:30 to 2:30pm MDT, continued by Judd Bagley, Director of Communications
Nov 5th, Ben Davenport, Co-founder of BitGo
Nov 5th, Bruce Fenton, Executive Director of The Bitcoin Foundation
Nov 6th, Jeff Garzik, Core Developer and CEO of DSS
Nov 6th, Marshall Long, CTO of Final Hash
Nov 7th, OgNasty, treasurer at bitcointalk.org
Nov 7th, Mike Hearn, Core Developer, Bio
Nov 8th, Valery Vavilov, CEO of BitFury
Nov 8th, David Johnston, Co-Founder of Decentralized Applications Fund
Nov 8th, Sam Lee, CEO of Bitcoin Group
Nov 9th, Asher Tan, CEO of CoinJar
Nov 10th, George Basiladze, CEO of Cryptopay 12:00 GMT
Nov 10th, Johann Gevers, CEO of Monetas
Nov 10th, Joe Lee, CIO of magnr.com
Nov 10th, Charlie Lee, Creator of Litecoin and Director of Engineering at Coinbase
Nov 11th, Gary Le, Co-founder of Moneta
Nov 12th, Justin Newton, CEO of Netki (date confirmed)
Nov 12th, Stephen Pair, CEO of Bitpay
Nov 13th, Jesse Powel CEO of Kraken
Nov 13th, Joshua and Philip Scigala, Founders of Valutoro, 3PM Central European Standard Time
Nov 14th, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Bio
Nov 16th, Brett Russell, CEO of BIGbtc, Bitcoin Integration Group
Nov 16th, Sergej Kotliar, CEO of Bitrefill, 17:00 UTC
Nov 17th, Roger Ver, Bio
Nov 18th, Aaron Voisine, CEO of Breadwallet
Nov 19th, Jonathan Chester, President of BitWage
Nov 19th, Matthew Roszak, Founding Partner at Tally Capital
Nov 20th Henry Brade, CEO of Denarium & Bittiraha.fi
Nov 21st, Andrew Lee, CEO of Purse.io
Nov 22nd, Bobby Lee, CEO of BTCC
Nov 22nd, Danny Scott, Co-Founder of CoinCorner (Joined by Molly Spiers)
Nov 23rd, Eric Larchevêque, CEO of Ledger
Nov 23rd, Martin Fernandez. CEO of BTCTrip
Nov 24th, Alena Vranova, CEO of SatoshiLabs (Trezor)
Nov 24th, Meinhard Benn, CEO of SatoshiPay
Nov 25th, Ken Lo, CEO of ANX Intl
Nov 30th, Nejc Kodric, CEO of Bitstamp
Dec 1st, Fran Strajnar, CEO of Brave New Coin
Dec 3rd, Marek Palatinus (Slush) - founder of SlushPool
Dec 4th, Zane Tackett, Director of Community & Product Development for Bitfinex
Dec 3rd ,Takao Asayama, CEO of Zaif
Dec 4th, Kevin Aleman, CEO of LUXSTACK
Dec 5th, Anthony Di lorio, Co-founder Ethereum, CEO of Decentral & Kryptokit
Dec 6th, Jeremy Gardner, Co-Founder of Augur
Dec 7th, Yuzo Kano, CEO of bitFlyer
Dec 8th, Jered Kenna, CEO of 20 Mission
Dec 9th, Jeff Berwick, CEO of The Dollar Vigilante 12:00 EST
Dec 10th, Mark Lamb, CEO of Coinfloor
Dec 12th, Frank Schuil, CEO of Safello 1pm Central European Time,
Dec 12th, Dan Moorhead, CEO of Pantera Capital
Dec 13th, Michael Perklin, President of CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4)
Dec 14th, Brock Pierce, Co-Founder of Blockchain Capital
Dec 16th, Barry Silbert, CEO of the Digital Currency Group
Dec 16th, Paul Snow CEO of Factom
Dec 16th, Paul Sztorc, Creator of Bitcoin Hive Mind (formerly known as Truthcoin)
Dec 17th, Michael Terpin, Co-Founder of BitAngels
Dec 17th, Jeffery Tucker CEO of Liberty.me
Dec 18th, Erik Voorhees, CEO of shapeshift.io
Dec 18th, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn CEO of Zerocoin
Dec 19th, Nic Carey, Co-founder of Blockchain.info
Dec 19th Dmitry Murashchik (Rassah) Mycelium
Dec 20th, Alex Bragin, CEO of OrderBook
Dec 21st, Jihan Wu, CEO of Bitmain (AntMiner)
Dec 22nd, Chandler Guo, Chinese Bitcoin Angel Investor
Dec Matt Luongo, CEO of FoldApp
Dec Connie M. Gallippi, Founder of Bitgive
Dec Craig Sellars, Co-Founder and CTO of Tether
Dec To be continued.....

https://forum.bitcoin.com/announces/bitcoin-com-ama-event-full-schedule-t1665.html

[pawel7777]

If you don't register on the other forum,  you are missing out on the greatest Bitcoin AMA ever!

Nov 2nd, Gavin Andresen, Core Developer, Bio, 9AM Eastern Standard Time
Nov 2nd, Jeremy Allaire CEO of Circle 11:30AM Eastern Standard Time
Nov 3rd, Wences Casares, CEO of XAPO 8AM Pacific Standard Time
Nov 3rd, Kristov Atlas, Open Bitcoin Privacy Project 10AM Eastern Standard Time
Nov 4th Juan Garavaglia, CEO of RootStock.io
Nov 4th, Patrick Byrne CEO of Overstock & tØ.com, 1:30 to 2:30pm MDT, continued by Judd Bagley, Director of Communications
Nov 5th, Ben Davenport, Co-founder of BitGo
Nov 5th, Bruce Fenton, Executive Director of The Bitcoin Foundation
Nov 6th, Jeff Garzik, Core Developer and CEO of DSS
Nov 6th, Marshall Long, CTO of Final Hash
Nov 7th, OgNasty, treasurer at bitcointalk.org
Nov 7th, Mike Hearn, Core Developer, Bio
Nov 8th, Valery Vavilov, CEO of BitFury
Nov 8th, David Johnston, Co-Founder of Decentralized Applications Fund
Nov 8th, Sam Lee, CEO of Bitcoin Group
Nov 9th, Asher Tan, CEO of CoinJar
Nov 10th, George Basiladze, CEO of Cryptopay 12:00 GMT
Nov 10th, Johann Gevers, CEO of Monetas
Nov 10th, Joe Lee, CIO of magnr.com
Nov 10th, Charlie Lee, Creator of Litecoin and Director of Engineering at Coinbase
Nov 11th, Gary Le, Co-founder of Moneta
Nov 12th, Justin Newton, CEO of Netki (date confirmed)
Nov 12th, Stephen Pair, CEO of Bitpay
Nov 13th, Jesse Powel CEO of Kraken
Nov 13th, Joshua and Philip Scigala, Founders of Valutoro, 3PM Central European Standard Time
Nov 14th, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Bio
Nov 16th, Brett Russell, CEO of BIGbtc, Bitcoin Integration Group
Nov 16th, Sergej Kotliar, CEO of Bitrefill, 17:00 UTC
Nov 17th, Roger Ver, Bio
Nov 18th, Aaron Voisine, CEO of Breadwallet
Nov 19th, Jonathan Chester, President of BitWage
Nov 19th, Matthew Roszak, Founding Partner at Tally Capital
Nov 20th Henry Brade, CEO of Denarium & Bittiraha.fi
Nov 21st, Andrew Lee, CEO of Purse.io
Nov 22nd, Bobby Lee, CEO of BTCC
Nov 22nd, Danny Scott, Co-Founder of CoinCorner (Joined by Molly Spiers)
Nov 23rd, Eric Larchevêque, CEO of Ledger
Nov 23rd, Martin Fernandez. CEO of BTCTrip
Nov 24th, Alena Vranova, CEO of SatoshiLabs (Trezor)
Nov 24th, Meinhard Benn, CEO of SatoshiPay
Nov 25th, Ken Lo, CEO of ANX Intl
Nov 30th, Nejc Kodric, CEO of Bitstamp
Dec 1st, Fran Strajnar, CEO of Brave New Coin
Dec 3rd, Marek Palatinus (Slush) - founder of SlushPool
Dec 4th, Zane Tackett, Director of Community & Product Development for Bitfinex
Dec 3rd ,Takao Asayama, CEO of Zaif
Dec 4th, Kevin Aleman, CEO of LUXSTACK
Dec 5th, Anthony Di lorio, Co-founder Ethereum, CEO of Decentral & Kryptokit
Dec 6th, Jeremy Gardner, Co-Founder of Augur
Dec 7th, Yuzo Kano, CEO of bitFlyer
Dec 8th, Jered Kenna, CEO of 20 Mission
Dec 9th, Jeff Berwick, CEO of The Dollar Vigilante 12:00 EST
Dec 10th, Mark Lamb, CEO of Coinfloor
Dec 12th, Frank Schuil, CEO of Safello 1pm Central European Time,
Dec 12th, Dan Moorhead, CEO of Pantera Capital
Dec 13th, Michael Perklin, President of CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4)
Dec 14th, Brock Pierce, Co-Founder of Blockchain Capital
Dec 16th, Barry Silbert, CEO of the Digital Currency Group
Dec 16th, Paul Snow CEO of Factom
Dec 16th, Paul Sztorc, Creator of Bitcoin Hive Mind (formerly known as Truthcoin)
Dec 17th, Michael Terpin, Co-Founder of BitAngels
Dec 17th, Jeffery Tucker CEO of Liberty.me
Dec 18th, Erik Voorhees, CEO of shapeshift.io
Dec 18th, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn CEO of Zerocoin
Dec 19th, Nic Carey, Co-founder of Blockchain.info
Dec 19th Dmitry Murashchik (Rassah) Mycelium
Dec 20th, Alex Bragin, CEO of OrderBook
Dec 21st, Jihan Wu, CEO of Bitmain (AntMiner)
Dec 22nd, Chandler Guo, Chinese Bitcoin Angel Investor
Dec Matt Luongo, CEO of FoldApp
Dec Connie M. Gallippi, Founder of Bitgive
Dec Craig Sellars, Co-Founder and CTO of Tether
Dec To be continued.....

https://forum.bitcoin.com/announces/bitcoin-com-ama-event-full-schedule-t1665.html

Da!mn, that's a big ass list and only for the next 2 months.

I've just registered there and will be checking it out.

Theymos, you need to step your game up. Where's the promised new bitcointalk.org?

[gentlemand]

Too bad it isn't in reddit. Reddit is easier to read than this bitcoin.com forum :/

Really? I find it an appalling grind. If it's a lengthy AMA then I can't be bothered to try and find the poster's answers and go straight to their profile. Then you've no idea what they've been asked.

[pawel7777]

https://forum.bitcoin.com/post5166.html#p5166

Rooster Cockburn wrote:
Question: I see you've been inactive on bitcointalk.org, have you given up on them? If so, why? Is it because theymos' stance on XT?

I just found it wasn't worth my time to try to have a productive conversation there-- too many people who seemed to be actively trying to derail good discussion.

Looks like GA is officially done with bitcointalk.org

[SerenaL]

Who thinks that forum is suspicious? Is Mr. Ver trying to steal our passwords? 

[Amph]

why he is not posting here anymore, too much hating on him here?

i have not read all the questions, but they should ask about the issue of the block limit, when it will be done exactly...

i think i'm gonna do it myself....

[7788bitcoin]

With so many AMA happening, I am not sure if we will gain more knowledge. Perhaps these are just to advertise their own businesses...

[Mickeyb]

Who thinks that forum is suspicious? Is Mr. Ver trying to steal our passwords?  

I am pretty sure that the only thing Roger Ver is trying to steal are the users of this forum. I think this is why this long list of AMA has been organized at the first place by him. As a perfect promotion of his new forum!

[maokoto]

So Gavin has an account here and used to post?

Too bad being a newcomer. Would have loved to see it.

[RealBitcoin]

Im honestly too lazy to register in another forum, but I would love if someone can ask him what does he pretend to do in the case of the blocksize being too big so that average people can't run a node? Why is he ok with centralizing Bitcoin nodes when mining is already centralized? I assume someone has already asked him 40 questions about the blocksize so im going to start reading the 7 pages to see what happened.

Its not the blocksize centralization.

Bitcoin was already fucked when they added difficulty to mining.

There should not have been a rising difficulty in mining bitcoin. That was the first mistake.

[disclaimer201]

If we can accept that Bitcoin will not be primarily used as a currency by average people but mainly as a safe haven for assets or a retirement investment - while this will not stop Bitcoin's success story! - we won't ever need huge block sizes to allow everyone and their parents to send funds for free.

We will need gradually rising block sizes to allow a wider adoption, but 1) the majority of people won't use Bitcoin to buy everyday stuff knowing it will likely appreciate in price and fluctuate insanely and 2) they won't buy fractions of Bitcoins once they cost thousands of Dollars for psychological reasons (2019: Meanwhile in Kentucky. "Last weekend I bought 0.00245 Bitcoins for 75 Dollars to buy two pairs of jeans at Walmart. Ain't that great?") NOT GONNA HAPPEN. Why? If everyone and their mother's dream only come halfway true, BTC will easily be worth 4 digit prices.

Bitcoin will totally be fine for a long time if the block sizes are doubled. 2MB blocks have to be filled first while we haven't even seen many large blocks lately or hardly ever, except when BTC went into super bubble mode.

There will be another or many (soon maybe even national cryptos???) for everyday expenses. The European Court of Justice has made the first step to acknowledge Bitcoin as a currency, what's to stop governments or the FED/ ECB to start own digital tokens (decentralized or not) and declare them national currency? It would be absolutely in their interest, get rid of cash and even gain control over the money flow!

Even in this case Bitcoin will still be the real deal, safe and expensive, used by big players and a security for your retirement, but you won't go buy groceries with it. You won't see millions of transactions, neither now nor in the future. Yet, 1 Bitcoin will cost 3000 Dollars or more. It will be a huge success, just a bit different from you thought it would be.

[Kprawn]

I must say, I liked the guy.... before he signed up with Mike Hearn. He changed a bit after that.... you now find some of the arrogance in some of his statements, where he

talks down to average Bitcoin users. We cannot ignore his contribution to Bitcoin and the fact that he carry some weight in the industry..  I just think it went to his head a bit,

and he needs to appreciate the fact that normal Bitcoin users are a major part of the Bitcoin eco system. I would think with all the tracking software being used on that forum,

most users from this forum would be blocked from joining. 

[pawel7777]

...what's to stop governments or the FED/ ECB to start own digital tokens (decentralized or not) and declare them national currency? It would be absolutely in their interest, get rid of cash and even gain control over the money flow!

They already have it, it's called fiat currency and mostly exist in digital form.

Even in this case Bitcoin will still be the real deal, safe and expensive, used by big players and a security for your retirement, but you won't go buy groceries with it. You won't see millions of transactions, neither now nor in the future. Yet, 1 Bitcoin will cost 3000 Dollars or more. It will be a huge success, just a bit different from you thought it would be.

Sure, Bitcoin is like gold, except gold was around for thousands of years to establish itself as something valuable and there's still no guarantee that people one day won't turn away from it. Theres also demand for gold (jewelery, electronic components) which adds to the value. With no merchant adoption and practical usage Bitcoin will likely fade away.

Having Bitcoin only good as an investment and other, emerging cryptocurrency which can be used for both investment and day-to-day transaction - which one will win in the long run?

I don't get where you guys are coming from. If you take away any practical usage, you essentially fully rely on unidentified 'big players' who will just keep throwing more money in Bitcoin for some reasons. But most of all you would make Bitcoin fully controlled by governments and banks, since it could only be used on (regulated) exchanges.

[justbitcoins]

If he really is Gavin and apparently he is we could post the most interesting Q&A of this AMA in here.
It would be a good reference for us.

After the ask me anything finishes in bitcoin.com, somebody will post the questions and answers here. Gavin Andresen contributed a lot to bitcoin cause in the early days.

[Tstar]

rogerver wrote:
Hi Gavin,
Do you find yourself inspired to be involved with Bitcoin for the same reasons today, as you did originally?
What were those primary motivating reasons then, as well as today?


GA

I like working on interesting new technologies that have the potential to have a positive impact on the world. That's what drew me to Bitcoin in the beginning, and that still inspires me today.

Eventually the technology behind Bitcoin will stop being interesting to me-- and that's when I'll wander off and try to find something else to keep me busy.

That might surprise some people-- after all, if I believe that Bitcoin will have a positive impact on the world, why not work on it forever?

I'll feel comfortable stepping away because Bitcoin gets the incentives right-- there are lots of people with strong incentives to see Bitcoin succeed, and any one person's ability to help make Bitcoin succeedbecomes smaller and smaller over time.

flix wrote:
How much time do we have before the Bitcoin protocol begins to ossify?

GA

What are the most necessary changes, additions that we need to include before it becomes almost impossible to modify it anymore?

The Bitcoin protocol began to ossify back at the first transaction between Satoshi and Hal. The bigger it gets, the more people impacted, and the more careful "we" have to be about changing things.

If there are reasonable processes for making changes (e.g. some IETF-like process) then I don't think it will ever be impossible to make changes. In fact, with a good process I think it would be easier to make changes that today.

seenitor wrote:
Do you see a chance Bitcoin Core will come to a "consensus" to raise the block size limit in some way after the Hong Kong conference? I seems Mike doesn't think so at all: "Core won’t raise the limit" https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-block-sizes-e047bc9f830#.dzgubhu3m

GA

Mike and I have been really frustrated by "the other side's" unwillingness to meaningfully engage.

I'm still trying, but (as I said in a private email this morning) it is impossible to collaborate if one side refuses to communicate.