cool, are they going to give me some of that 24 mil$? I'm bankrupt, would
appreciate a couple of mil to vastly improve Bitcoin dev. Thx

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Amir Taaki <genjix@???> wrote:
>
>> mike hearn says the bitcoin dev model needs to change. backing up gavin
>> (chief scientist of bitcoin foundation who is actually more like a
>> figurehead to legitimise the foundation)... this is his way of pushing
>> out
>> elements by formalising the dev process to stop people to participate
>> and
>> take control.
>
> Do remember that Mike Hearn is not actually a developer for Bitcoin
> Core. He talks a lot, but all in all he has only about 10 commits.
>
> Not to say his contributions to bitcoin are not important, his project
> BitcoinJ plays a large part in making bitcoin accessible to large
> amounts of people. And his Lighthouse stuff may actually help
> crowdfund development.
>
> But lately he complains a lot about lack of progress in Bitcoin Core
> development. Even though if you follow the git repository you can see
> that there are lots of fixes and improvements every day. Then when you
> push him on it, he says he means that the things *he* cares about are
> not moving fast enough. Suffice to say, I'm not the only one slightly
> ticked off by this.
>
> Jeremy Allaire indeed seems to be parroting him.
>
>> if you want to dev bitcoin, there's nothing stopping you. go write
>> control
>> or participate. don't try to assert control.
>
> Exactly.
>
>> it's all related, bitcoin foundation being official with their claim to
>> legimitimacy but no merit to back that up.
>
> They're nothing more official than anyone. Other people could start a
> second bitcoin foundation tomorrow and it'd be exactly as official.
> Despite a lot of talk I still don't see it happening. No one else is
> proposing to fund Bitcoin Core development.
>
> Which doesn't mean that the Bitcoin Foundation owns Bitcoin Core
> development. There is no 'command structure' that steers the direction
> from above. The BF pays me a salary but has never told me to do
> anything except to be fulltime maintainer. In principle the project is
> led by what happens to be contributed (just like other open source
> projects).
>
> Contributions are not vetted by bitcoin foundation membership of the
> contributor but by technical merit.
>
> Also I'm just the maintainer, I write and review code, do lots of
> testing, and look at where the consensus of the contributors is going.
> I don't claim to 'assert control' at all, I can't make decisions if a
> large part of the other developers don't agree.
>
> Wladimir
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