{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1m6p5kgcd428x6pxyfege98zjmlwrdhp0gyz6pdnsvrvalscddnxqurdjn5","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1m6p5kgcd428x6pxyfege98zjmlwrdhp0gyz6pdnsvrvalscddnxqurdjn5","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-02-10\n📝 Original message:On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:45:03AM -0800, Gregory Maxwell wrote:\n\u003e On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Troy Benjegerdes \u003chozer at hozed.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e \u003e Name me one single person with commit access to the bitcoin github repository\n\u003e \u003e who is *independent* of any venture capital or other 'investment' connections.\n\u003e \n\u003e I am, unless you count the fact that I own some Bitcoin and some\n\u003e mining hardware as \"'investment' connections\" (and that case your\n\u003e comments are worthless).\n\u003e \n\u003e (By not naming anyone else I don't mean to imply there are no others,\n\u003e but I don't want to speak for anyone else. Nor would I necessarily\n\u003e expect the other part(ies|y) to step forward, since this mostly\n\u003e appears to be an invitation to step up and be attacked.)\n\nThank you.\n\nI also appreciate your commentary[1], and willingness to list your investment\nposition. What I'm concerned about are people who have signed non-disclosure \nagreements or who's salary/equity/whatever depend on people who are experts\nat manipulating markets to take naive investors money.\n\nIndependent is also a state of mind as much as it is about financial connections.\n\nWhat pisses me off here is that a huge amount of wealth just changed hands based\non MtGox's press release, and it stinks of insider trading. I still maintain the\nbest outcome would be for MtGox to AGPLv3 release their code, and then those of \nus that understand it would be able to have a public technical discussion about\nhow to fix it, and MtGox would still maintain their intellectual property\nownership position.\n\nThis, however, cuts off a significant revenue stream for people who take money\nmaking market bets 5 minutes before the information goes public, so I expect\nthe likelyhood of such an outbreak of sanity is quite low.\n\n[1] http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/02/10/mt-gox-blames-bitcoin-core-developer-greg-maxwell-responds/\n\n\nDISCLAIMER: I have a significant emotional investment in copyleft/viral copyright\ndevelopment models, and I expect to take a lot of money charging people to write\ncode I give away for free. I also occasionally make money from cryptocurrency\nmining, but only when I can sell it in functional and transparent markets."}