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[–]nullcGreg Maxwell - Bitcoin Expert 22ポイント23ポイント  (11子コメント)

Welcome to Reddit thrwawhy!

Yes, strongly appears to be the same Mike Hearn. You can also see the use of the qinetiq email address in his commits/posts to wine from 2002-2005. You can see Mike's work on wine mentioned on his current CVish info on his website.

Is he still under gov/defence employment?

It's more or less impossible to tell, it's not like a state operative is going to helpfully and honestly self-identify.

But if so, he'd be the least well hidden operative ever.

Is this why he always pushes for tracking?

Ultimately we must judge words and actions, contributions and their merits. In Mike's case, in my view, after these things are considered there is no reason left to worry about if he's still on Qinetiq/GCHQ's payroll or not.

There are more important things to worry about. As I've said before-- it wouldn't even matter if Bitcoin were originally created by some spooky intelligence org: We must always judge Bitcoin based on what it actually does, as even someone with the best intentions can make errors. So it certainly doesn't matter if Mike Hearn is serving some other interest. In systems defined by their rules we judge things on what they actually do-- not what they're intended to do, what someone /says/ they do, or on the merits of those who propose them.

Ultimately, we must be robust against that sort of thing-- even if you did manage to catch one poorly disguised operative you're not going to catch all that the worldwide intelligence community could throw as us if they wanted. And, of course, it would be trivial to fake evidence that any person had "connections".

I believe the Bitcoin Community is already structurally robust against that sort of stuff. We should continue on with the business of building more and more protocols and tools which are inherently resistant to subterfuge and leave the gossip for the tabloids.

Part of being robust is not feeding rumor or drama, giving into to personal or emotional attacks, taking attempts to discredit with a big grain of salt, etc.

[–]chrisguida 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Exactly. It's patently ridiculous to believe that an open protocol or its open source reference implementation could be advancing the agenda of some hidden, nefarious organization.

[–]jstolfi -5ポイント-4ポイント  (7子コメント)

giving into to personal or emotional attacks

Like, calling others "dictators" -- for not agreeing to the core devs plans to let bitcoin saturate, and for seeking the approval of the community before proposing some changes that would keep bitcoin usable for another few years?... 8-/

[–]adam3usAdam Back - Bitcoin Expert 9ポイント10ポイント  (6子コメント)

You know Gavin called himself dictator and said that Mike told him he should be more dictator like, and Mike gives him the thumbs up for saying it. It's more like a self-quote than anyone called Gavin a dictator.

(There's a you tube video online I think it's this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIafZXRDH7w )

[–]GibbsSamplePlatter 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Not an ideological fan of Hearn, but this kind of discussion doesn't help. Stick to the technical arguments. Listen to a variety of voices, and make your own assessments.

[–]benjamindees 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Interesting.

[–]BitsenBytes 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

well mister thrwawhy (throw away account), I wonder who you've been working for recently?

[–]kanzure 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

I wonder who you've been working for recently?

Doesn't matter. All ideas should be evaluated on the merits of the idea, even if the idea was submitted by the NSA or whoever.

[–]EdsterGB -2ポイント-1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Looks more likely to be this guy: https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/mike-hearn/2/211/894

[–]petertoddPeter Todd - Bitcoin Expert 11ポイント12ポイント  (1子コメント)

Nah, Hearn has QinetiQ listed on his Google Plus profile, which should say something about how he's not trying to hide it!

https://plus.google.com/+MikeHearn/about

[–]kanzure -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Don't forget CIA.vc :-) /sarc