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On the homepage,"I believe that If non-Core hard fork wins, major holders will sell BTC, driving price into the ground". That's the most small-block biased question I've ever seen.…

Thanks for clarifying. Perhaps the DCI could fund more developers. https://www.media.mit.edu/research/highlights/media-lab-digi... It's clearly part of MIT's infrastructure. What y…

It was my understanding that Gavin and Wladimir were part of the MIT Media Lab payroll. > you never even care to ask about that Honestly, I don't know where that would be public in…

Thanks again for the reply. By the expression "locked down" I mean that no reasonable change can happen if any one of the main core devs don't want it to. Some of the core devs thi…

Hey nullc, I'm a software consultant for my own developing firm. I don't have a conflict of interest. As I've said before, this is a new account and my only account here. I've read…

nullc, I'll take your word for it that Blockstream will never run a Lightning network hub. We understand how the Lightning network works and you also have to admit that it has the …

Thanks for answering Greg. This isn't a throw-away account. I've lurked for years without needing to become involved. The larger public needs to know that: > We founded the company…

I was pointing out the obvious logical flaw in what he said, that's all. I'm sure he is a nice guy and maybe he's even funny. Blockstream does need to recoup the 70 million in fund…

Well, they say that "anyone can use" a 2nd layer lightning network but realistically nobody is going to trust any basement-dweller to intermediate their off-chain transaction. This…

I think he means that blocks are full and even transactions with correct fees will fail to confirm during high-volume transaction times. It's a flaw because users did nothing wrong…

You are implementing Lightning, paid by Blockstream but Blockstream has nothing to do with it? Maybe you're just really funny and they are paying you for your incredible sense of h…

-Blockstream Playbook- Step 1: Buy off all of the top developers of open-source project. Check. Step 2: Refuse to support/fix basic network operations so that transactions stop con…