Important Read: AMA with Andreas Antonopoulos & Chinese Bitcoin Community

[AgentofCoin]

AMA Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BEqEhxJjN05HgAZ_OYvVUJ6kxDvEDxGebLvea7XqP-c/edit?ts=57958319&pref=2&pli=1

(My Document Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4vcxuu/ama_from_andreas_antonopoulos_in_the_chinese/)
(Original Announcement Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1564537.msg15700322#msg15700322)

Just finished reading this transcript from an "Ask Me Anything" with Andreas and Chinese Bitcoiners.
Andreas, who at times I have disagreed with on some issues, did a fantastic job answering/explaining these issues.

It seems by some of the questions, their community has been fed some incomplete or just false information.
Their major concerns center around 2MB HF and whether Blockstream and/or Core Devs are bad actors.
But Andreas, in a neutral way (as he always attempts to do) sets the record straight with reasoning.


What do you think?
What are your impressions?

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Thx!

Very good reading and always good to know what AA is thinking - crystal clear.

It is setting the light on the tradeoffs between scaling (fast) and security issues (slow) in complex systems.

There is just no single answer for that and allows always room for different solutions / communities -> splitting. 

I wish all would have his manner to talk about it that way and only allow emotions coming up once its getting down to bitcoin vs fiat.

[Kprawn]

I think many of the big block supporters have lost sight of the primary function of the Core developers and that is not to make critical changes that might compromise the security of the network. If they

make changes and Bitcoin becomes vulnerable to denial of service attacks and consensus attacks, everyone will suffer. So going slowly will be the best option for now, until we know that it is safe to

scale. Andreas answered most of these questions like a old pro. 

[Lauda]

It seems by some of the questions, their community has been fed some incomplete or just false information.

This should not be of any surprise to anyone. A lot of the forkers are deliberately spreading false information that helps their own views.

Their major concerns center around 2MB HF and whether Blockstream and/or Core Devs are bad actors.

The people supporting Classic are the more likely candidates for bad actors.

But Andreas, in a neutral way (as he always attempts to do) sets the record straight with reasoning.

Indeed. He has properly answered all of the questions.

I think many of the big block supporters have lost sight of the primary function of the Core developers and that is not to make critical changes that might compromise the security of the network.

Some of them are becoming delusional at this point. I've seen some claims that the situation with ETH is a "healthy sign".

[franky1]

yet when a core-dev releases 2mb code, where will lauda's rhetoric be..

will lauda do a REKT campaign to push luke JR out of the core-dev crew the same way his flock have done with hearn, gavin, garzic??

or will people like lauda give up on the pretense that blockstream should rule supreme and instead cower down to the real understanding that its the open community that matters(consensus) more then corporate dominance of one group