Bitcoin-Core Team Asked To Denounce Censorship
There is a thread on the top of the subreddit /r/btc that is asking the Bitcoin-core group to denounce the censorship that the moderator Theymos has been accused of. In fact, a pull request on Github is also asking for these same measures. The discussion about the moderator has continuously heated up this year because it seems — Theymos still removes....
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Editor’s Note: This article has been modified to correct a misquote. This article originally quoted Brian Armstrong as saying that the Core team was a “Systematic” threat to Bitcoin, when he actually said Core was a “Systemic” threat. Coinbase CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong recently published a Medium blog post titled, “What Happened At The Satoshi Roundtable.” In this post, Armstrong calls for an immediate block size increase to 2 MB, the creation of a new Bitcoin development team, and called the Core team a “systemic threat” to Bitcoin.
The XT schism is causing negative mood all over the Bitcoin ecosystem. The announcement pushed the bitcoin price over the edge, the XT big block agenda has the public harassing the Core developers to also upsize (is one XT not enough?) and now that tranquil discussion forum, r/bitcoin, has toppled into division as Mike Hearn and XT pulls more communities into its vortex of dissatisfaction. r/bitcoin has become the scene of a popular uprising against dictatorship and censorship following a moderator's decree that XT-talk was off-topic in the sub-reddit. So Unfair. Every post, it seems is....
A few weeks ago Bitcoin Magazine published a report on the launch of AKASHA, a blockchain-based social network built on top of Ethereum and IPFS (the InterPlanetary File System). As a followup to the previous report, AKASHA CEO Mihai Alisie spoke to Bitcoin Magazine and said that the idea behind creating a blockchain-based social network came to him and his team as they were looking for ways to use existing technologies such as Ethereum and IPFS to solve bigger problems. The team eventually decided to select the issue of internet censorship as the problem to tackle, and the best way to....
Censorship in the Bitcoin community has been highly damaging towards efforts to bridge the gap between the various parties of Bitcoin’s block size debate. Roger Ver recently published a post asking users what they find more upsetting: the scalability roadblock or censorship on r/Bitcoin, after which he called for users to use other forums to express....