The 12 Best Answers from Gavin Andresen's Reddit AMA
Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andresen took to Reddit today to engage the community in an ask-me-anything (AMA) session that tackled a variety of topics both silly and serious. In his post kicking off the session, the 47-year-old chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation detailed his contributions to the bitcoin space so far. These included the nine Bitcoin Improvement Protocols (BIPS) he has written, including multi-signature transaction support and the Payment Protocol, plus the thousands of lines of code he has added to Bitcoin Core. The extended session, however, focused mostly on the....
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Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, hosted a Reddit AMA yesterday. AMA means "Ask Me Anything" - Reddit users can ask the host all sorts of questions about any topic. Reddit AMAs use the site's comment system for both questions and answers, and are similar to online text-only press conferences open to all Reddit users. Many celebrities have hosted Reddit AMAs to connect with a global online audience, including President Barack Obama in 2012, Julian Assange, Bill Gates, and Madonna. Andresen answered a lot of questions about technical, organizational, regulatory and....
Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, will hold a Reddit AMA later today at 11am Eastern Time (8am Pacific Time, 4pm UK, 5pm Continental Europe). It isn't clear whether the AMA will take place on r/bitcoin or r/IAmA, so keep watching both subreddits. AMA means "Ask Me Anything" - Reddit users can ask the host all sorts of questions about any topic. Reddit AMAs use the site's comment system for both questions and answers, and are similar to online text-only press conferences open to all Reddit users. Many celebrities have hosted Reddit AMAs to connect with a global....
Gavin Andresen had some harsh words for the Bitcoin cloud mining industry on Reddit. Gavin Andresen, perhaps the most respected and well-known Bitcoin developer today, made a rather interesting statement about Bitcoin cloud mining the other day, and the strange thing is that it went basically unnoticed by the community as a whole. Redditor /u/zapt0 asked the /r/Bitcoin community about mining contracts and whether or not they could be solid investments, and most of the responses were rather negative when discussion came to the long term prospects of earning money through one of these cloud....
AMA in progress: Link. It was just about a week ago when the Bitcoin Foundation announced a Reddit AMA series in the spirit of transparency (AMA stands for "ask me anything"). The idea, as you might have already guessed, is designed to give the bitcoin community easy access to asking questions to some of the well-known entities at the Foundation. Last week, the first to be asked questions by the community was Jim Harper, who serves as Global Policy Counsel at the Foundation. This week, someone else it up, and that someone is Gavin Andresen. Andresen serves as "Chief Scientist" at the....
In a recent e-mail to the Bitcoin core development mailing list, Gavin Andresen described the "worst of all possible worlds" for Bitcoin as being "no plan for how to scale up." Andresen appears to believe still that scaling is Bitcoin's only obstacle at the moment, regardless of how that must be achieved. If a fork to Bitcoin-XT is required, it seems that Andresen and others are willing to go along with that. Scaling seems to be on the minds of many core developers. Developers aside from Andresen, however, don't feel that the problem is as urgent as it's made to seem. Recently on Reddit,....