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ThickAsThieves: "Separately, we’re also very pleased to share that
Gavin Andresen has joined Coinbase as an advisor. "
pigeons: zhoutong runs the exchange that
gavin uses and nefario got vc money to run a UK exchange
jurov: or some other problem, can remember exactly what
gavin cooked there
skinnkavaj: So tonight
Gavin Andresen made changes to Litecoin source code
ThickAsThieves: he said there's no situation where
gavin would just do what they vote for
ThickAsThieves: what if
Gavin is wrong one day? or makes a big mistake?
ThickAsThieves: he says
Gavin knows what's best and he trusts him, basically
Luke-Jr: it exists to get money from MtGox/etc to
Gavin, more or less
ThickAsThieves: Ben - No,
Gavin shouldnt be paid by FOundation either (conflict of interest)
ThickAsThieves: Luke - No, but give community a way to vote, Liz - No, but we all know
gavin works at the foundation
kleeck_: Interesting that
Gavin is the only one paid.
mircea_popescu: what with
gavin going on about introducing a server that can turn off transactions etc.
dub:
gavin is prime example, he tried to roll luke a number of times
mircea_popescu: there's some groundwork being laid out already what with
gavin's incredibly shitty move
Graet: dont see
gavin on the list - he'd be a pretty important btc person i think ;)
optimator: and
gavin + w/e tla agency is why litecoin still has a chance
ozbot: And
Gavin moves on to the dark side. The Bitcoin project is officially hijacked pe Trilema - Un blog
optimator: wut? someone turned
gavin? i thought he was married?
mircea_popescu: compare the gestapo's action in btc (the turning of
gavin) with the gestapo's exact same action in tor.
mircea_popescu: and with weak assholes like
gavin what tbtp want tptb get
mircea_popescu: Namworld okay, so you care about the protocol. the entire contention here is that this showsa to me who/what
gavin was.
Namworld: I'm fully aware it's a problem if people just blindly follow
Gavin, whatever he decides.
Namworld: Or they're smart enough to reject the new thing/fork and
Gavin is displaced.
Namworld: How would keeping an old client prevent other people from switching according to
Gavin's will? It doesn't.
mircea_popescu: it changes nothing objective. it just shows who
gavin was.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> because
Gavin had an idea << it wasn't his idea.
ozbot: And
Gavin moves on to the dark side. The Bitcoin project is officially hijacked pe Trilema - Un blog
benkay: because
Gavin had an idea
Namworld:
Gavin's proposal doesn't change anything, it just adds an interface for making it easier to have a 2 factor setup with a second part of a private key on your own external server. Isn't it what he's proposing?
ozbot: fellowtraveler comments on
Gavin suggests two-factor protection of wallet files
mircea_popescu: basically
gavin just came up with a way to take over control of people's wallets.
ozbot:
Gavin suggests two-factor protection of wallet files : Bitcoin
louong: rockxie can be the
Gavin while friedcat can be satoshi and stay behind the scenes as the shadowy mysterious figure
Bugpowder: Founded by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, and
Gavin McInnes, the magazine was launched in 1994 as the Voice of Montreal with government funding, and the intention of the founders was to provide work and a community service.[5
jcpham: i know
gavin gets paid
bitcoin935: its time for
gavin to pass the baton on to a more professional development crew
bitcoin935: once mtgox goes, peter vessennes and go and
gavin too
ThickAsThieves: (
Gavin Andresen) I don’t foresee us formally creating a spec within the next year … actually really at all. There are so many things to work on, I would rather spend time actually developing the code than creating a spec.
mjr_: and it was only my opinion as one guy who has observed, but yeah,
gavin probably gets one of the spots, mike hearn too
mircea_popescu: perhaps
gavin, but only on the condition that he keeps quiet a lot on most issues.
☟︎ dub:
gavin is ok imo, just needs to be stronger an dignore the other fuckwits
Luke-Jr: kakobrekla: they lost nothing from the split,
Gavin gave them what they would have mined
MJR_: fighting over a conch (is that the foundation,
gavin, luke jr etc?)
mircea_popescu: (and
gavin paid him iirc anyway - moar central planning nonsense()
mjr_: but at the end of the day, "the market decides" and it decides to follow
gavin i guess
Bowjob: misspelled
gavin's last name
midnightmagic: It was supposed to just be a reference implementation, never The Real one. Even
Gavin has made many and numerous noises about how much better off bitcoin would be with multiple implementations.
BingoBongo: Really they need to kill BDB with fire. There is no other way.
Gavin doesn't have a way to maintain BDB compatibility in LevelDB.
mircea_popescu: they aren't paid, except for
gavin, who is probably not paid anything much at all.
mircea_popescu: well... let's just hope
gavin sends him the correct lists then
mircea_popescu: smickles gotta give props to
gavin, he's one of the few that are actually contrite enough.
smickles: Namworld:
gavin said he would've caught it if he had tested a larger block on the testnet
smickles: something
gavin was testing, just not toroughly enough
smickles:
gavin had admitted to testing 500k blocks
vampireb: well guess what, that's why when I last time I met
gavin he was looking to hire QA
jcpham:
gavin emailed some pools
mircea_popescu: now, the only way to change something like that is the way
gavin proposed it
BingoBongo: I could see getting pissed about colored coins or the dude who put and MP3 on testnet trying that on the real blockchain, but miners filtering transactions?
Gavin reccommends conf settings for miners.
dub: its not like it would be unwelcome,
gavin has tried to get rid of luke before
Chaang-Noi:
gavin just seemed like grumbelinz, but you know he has coins.. he gots to be a rich guy by now
dub:
gavin gonna jump ship
Lyspooner: he's a much more flamboyant leader than, say,
gavin mircea_popescu: <jurov> fortunately
gavin has his wit together, but he seems alone << this.
jurov: fortunately
gavin has his wit together, but he seems alone
pigeons: i remember that, it may have been called that, but strongcoins.com is a web wallet. they used to employ
gavin, i don't know currently
pigeons: mircea_popescu: that was originally
gavin's company's whole business model, something like 1%-5% fees for strongcoin web wallet
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic you won't believe this (yes you will) but
gavin brought consensus to the maxblocksize issue.
Anduck: no way
gavin is giving up yet
smickles: so now, I must edit wikipedia, making
gavin a scientist
smickles: “It’s still a pretty raw technology,” says
Gavin Andresen, chief scientist at Bitcoin Foundation. “It’s pretty obvious that it’s been designed by geeks for geeks. It’s not easy to use yet, but it’s getting easier to use all the time.”
smickles: I swear, someone like businessweek call
gavin the chief scientist of the bitcoin project
smickles: ;;lucky "Chief Scientist
Gavin Anderson"
Ukto: "
Gavin Andresen, chief scientist at Bitcoin Foundation"
smickles: you should add
gavin's bitcoin faucet to the linode hack, it was a minicule amount, but it was a 'sentimental' theft
mircea_popescu: dude, somebody needs to explain to
gavin what side of the cock he's on.
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa well that's for sure, seeing how it ain't
gavin.