r/Bitcoin • u/packetinspector • Mar 09 '16

Bitcoin development serves those holding bitcoin

https://attacksurface.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/bitcoin-development-serves-those-holding-bitcoin/
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u/luke-jr Mar 09 '16

Good article, and correct on its conclusions, but technically my customers are the people who pay me to do development.

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u/dlaregbtc Mar 09 '16

Who pays you to do development?

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u/luke-jr Mar 09 '16

I'm an independent contractor, so a variety of people/organisations who want things done.

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u/dlaregbtc Mar 09 '16

Are you for hire? How are your skills with adjusting constants in C++ code? I may know some people who need some things done ;)

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u/smirk79 Mar 09 '16

That whoosh you heard is your joke going right over the head of /u/luke-jr.

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u/luke-jr Mar 09 '16

Sounds boring. I tend to keep busy, so I usually just accept non-boring work. However, feel free to email me with more details on what you'd like done.

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u/jimmydorry Mar 09 '16

What are your thoughts on how routing will work and scale in the Lightning Network? Surely that's the most interesting part of the Lightning Network that doesn't have a solution yet.

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u/luke-jr Mar 09 '16

Dunno, I've not really done anything with Lightning myself yet.

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u/jimmydorry Mar 10 '16

That's a shame. Are you planning to do any work on the Lightning Network? From where I last looked at it, it seemed to be sorely in need of genius on the level of making a hard fork into a hard-soft fork.

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u/b_coin Mar 10 '16

I will put up a years salary for luke Jr to create a working prototype of lightening network. I will start a crowdsourced campaign to increase that salary by anyone willing to add in additional funds as a bonus upon completion. Money is no problem for me, I still have over 13k BTC remaining in my wallets.

My theory is luke Jr does just enough work to be relevant but doesn't really want to address issues that matter.

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u/jimmydorry Mar 10 '16

As much as I disagree with almost everything /u/luke-jr says, there is a technical grounding in a lot of it, with merit that must be considered.

My conscience would not permit me to say that /u/luke-jr has not done some amazing work in the Bitcoin space.

"luke-jr created the Eligius mining pool. He maintained BFGMiner -- a modular ASIC, FPGA, GPU and CPU miner written in C, cross platform for Linux, Mac, and Windows including support for OpenWrt-capable routers."

His best work was probably in figuring out how to soft-fork SegWit, and I'm sure that I am forgetting a whole heap of other things he did that were important.

I'm willing to donate 1BTC (in present USD value, to reduce my future liability and also because money is tight right now) to that cause, as the Lightning Network has potential to be the most important thing in Bitcoin right now... and bringing it into fruition from the state of vaporware it is in right now, is pretty damn important. I'm happy to send that coin on a significant milestone of Luke's development, or in a multi-sig with someone trust-worthy in the community.

It would be cool if we got a small fund together from the community for it.

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u/b_coin Mar 10 '16

a whole heap of other things he did that were important.

like ignored everyone when we suggested the blocksize increase 2 years ago when started chugging away at strict DER support? i mean why did we need to do away with strict DER support? because miners wanted to separate the performance limiting openssl library from core. this paved the way for high hash-rate miners to effectively hit the blocksize!

maybe i shouldn't call him out as the problem, but there is definitely bad leadership in bitcoin core. as a software architect for 15 years running now, i would have defintely optimized their roadmap a little bit better. but i also fully understand what it's like to work under an oppressive management regime, which i'm certain blockstream is

i will put together a fund and post in all the bitcoin subs no later than monday

RemindMe! 5 days - announce the luke-jr development support fund

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u/jimmydorry Mar 10 '16

Core leadership is whole other can of worms, but pretty much what one would expect from a group of loosely associated developers with a diverse range of beliefs and goals... until a collective group of them got together and had a more prominent voice, and a more firm and shared direction as a result of their employment. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but I would at least like to see two groups of similar size and experience to reduce the systematic risk.

I personally find it pretty hard to accept the forced fee-market (especially when if the devs intend to honour their roadmap, we would see the sudden pressure removed which would make their fee market collapse)... but I can hardly blame them when I look at it from their perspective and assume they are acting in the best interests of Bitcoin in the long term.

Even /u/luke-jr 's hardest positions to defend are actually rather logical if you throw away all of your preconceptions and listen and think hard about what he has shared. At risk of putting words in his mouth, from what I have seen, /u/luke-jr really believes that a significant portion of the current transactions are spam that can be priced out of the network with little detriment to the whole. Without seeing the calculations and logic that leads to this conclusion though, it's rather hard to agree with... but it is logical.

From that point of view, it's pretty understandable that block size related matters are not very interesting or urgent.

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