Monday, October 8, 2018

Reminder: Cobra-Bitcoin assisted and supported Theymos with agenda driven moderation that was designed to stop Bitcoin from functioning as a cash system.

Theymos implicitly said that Cobra was working with him to implement their agenda driven moderation campaign:

<theymos> You must be naive if you think it'll have no effect. I've moderated forums since long before Bitcoin (some quite large), and I know how moderation affects people. Long-term, banning XT from /r/Bitcoin will hurt XT's chances to hijack Bitcoin. There's still a chance, but it's smaller. (This is improved by the simultaneous action on bitcointalk.org, bitcoin.it, and bitcoin.org)

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Notes for those out of the loop:

  • Theymos & Cobra-Bitcoin are co-owners of the bitcoin.org domain name (source). As such Theymos and cobra-bitcoin are the ultimate deciders of what does and does not go on the bitcoin.org site.
  • bitcoin.org is and always was a popular bitcoin website. It's even mentioned in the white paper header. It was one of the 4 main sources of information on Bitcoin in the early days (the other 3 being r/bitcoin, bitcointalk.org & bitcoin.it).
  • "XT" refers to Bitcoin XT; a Bitcoin full node program. This was one of the first attempts to preserve Bitcoin's cash like functionality on the BTC chain by making a consensus change called BIP 101 that would automatically and predictably grow the block size over time. Bitcoin XT was the work of Gavin Andresen (the 2nd developer of Bitcoin after Satoshi and a long time Bitcoin Core maintainer) and Mike Hearn (a highly skilled ex-Google engineer who was an early Bitcoin developer and created key projects like bitcoinj).
  • The 1 MB block-size limit on the BTC chain was a temporary limit designed to stop poison block attacks. Satoshi made it clear that it should be hard forked out in the future. Anyone familiar with Satoshi's writings and how Bitcoin was built, designed and promoted would know that the plan was always for Bitcoin to serve as a cash system, in-part through on-chain scaling.
  • As explained by Jeff Garzik (another early Bitcoin developer), failure to bump the block size would predicatably lead to an economic change event and was, itself, a choice.

So: 16th June 2015 was when Bitcoin XT was upgraded to include the change that would increase the block size thus allowing Bitcoin to continue to function as a cash system in the future.

Here is a snapshot of the bitcoin.org wallet page on 16th July 2015. Notice the absence of Bitcoin XT (a popular, safe and compatible version of Bitcoin).

If you have any doubt that Cobra-Bitcoin supported Theymos and agreed with him please see Cobra's comments in this December 2015 pull request (archived backup) to learn about what Cobra thought about Bitcoin XT.

I made this post because Cobra-Bitcoin is making positive remarks about Bitcoin Cash from time to time. People need to understand that this snake cannot be trusted. I also wanted to share a little of Bitcoin's history with the new comers here.


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