Beware of altcoiners showing themselves as Bitcoin supporters with "concerns". Viacoin dev attacking Bitcoin devs, receives a great answer by /u/nullc (G Maxwell).

Urgh, I repeated myself several times already yet you say again and again I havent answered your questions. I keep saying my main question, and question it is, not a"attack" as you keep on trying to imply, is about the conflicting interests of a commercial company employing a lot of staff of an open source project to the point where is looks like the commercial company has control over the open source project to the point where is can get whatever changes it wants in and block whatever changes it had issue with. You haven't actually answered how this is not a problem other than to say you as the owner/founder of Blockstream have a contract that protects you if Blockstream does anything you disagree with, which I have difficulty comprehending because by your own words it is your company. Employees != owners.

I did acknowledge some of the information you gave in your reply as being encouraging. You however have gone full out to attack and disparage and it is quite unjustified. You seen awfully angry over not much in particular. I am pretty sure these questions will arise again from time to time just as they did over Gavin and the BCF that's the frustrating nature of forums. I even offered you a suggestion that you formally address this issue.

Clearly this conversation isn't going anywhere and all you can do is hurl abuse which only re-enforces my point about your elitist attitude. Open source is all about giving. It doesnt really matter what the motivation of contributors is or isnt, if it advances the project, fixes bugs and improves testing, it's a win. I am sure most people contributing to open source projects are trying to solve particular issues/add features dear to them. Some of those will be hobbyists, some will be commercial contributors like say Jeff. None of that is problematic so long as the open source project remains independent.

I dont know why you think you have the monopoly on deciding who can and cannot ask questions or be concerned about bitcoin governance. We all can be concerned. Whether we're listened to or have power to change things is quite a different matter.

Lastly you're twisting and reframing (as strawman) much of what I am saying. Just one example I love how you go on about how the jcmorgan patch has issues in it and why havent I fixed them, yet in the very ticket you reference, and in IRC conversations where I asked what the issues you thought were, you say you dont know, but you remember there were some. So far in testing the patch works well for me, for Counterparty and the others who use it without problems now for about 8 months. And yes, I also use it in my altcoin, why is this a problem? The code is as far as I am concerned working, available for Bitcoin 0.10 if you want it in Core, and until such a time is made available for those who want it (and there are many) in my own Bitcoin Core fork. FYI the code was adapted for 0.10 as the jcmorgan patch was for 0.9 codebase and needed some changes so it's not just some copy and paste as you try to make out. There's real work there time and testing went into getting it suitable for 0.10.

If you do happen to remember whatever the edge cases were for that particular patch, I would gladly fix it. It's not currently a PR in Bitcoin Core only because there has been very luke warm reception to "yet another index". Fair enough, not complaining, in fact, doing exactly what you said to do, and that is distribute a fork with the feature for those that want it, and there are many who do.

I really really don't see what I have said or done that is so objectionable. Is your anger towards me really justified? Really nullc, I am not out to upset anyone, lest not you, and even after your onslaught. If my questions have hurt you so much I can only suggest maybe deep down I hit a nerve or something or somehow I am not communicating well enough and making myself misunderstood.

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