Author: uwecerron Date: To: System undo crew Subject: Re: [unSYSTEM] circle and others pushing for change to "governance
model of bitcoin"?
well, you have to promise them a return ;).
> On Jul 24, 2014, at 4:39 PM, "Amir Taaki" <genjix@???> wrote:
>
> 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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