Deryk Makgill Name and picture from twetch — not on-chain. The signature is; the profile is not.

'Please let's just try and use the tools Satoshi left us with rather than constantly trying to change them. I'm strongly against trying to "improve" parts of the protocol that we've barely even begun to understand yet.'

• Mike Hearn

Where is the after party, friends?

That said, a miner freeze order could in theory be possible, or an exchange blacklist. Mike Hearn was I think the first person to ever talk about this, back in 2011/12.

Miners didn't do it. Everyone is overplaying this. The guy was arrested. They did a court order 'freezing' his coins in the sense that he would be held liable if coins were spent. He agreed to turn them over.

It's not a 'miner freeze.'

Everyone gloating 'see! We told you that you could freeze Bitcoin! Welcome to law!' miss the point that nobody really contests that a court can make you turn over your wallet and keys and impose severe penalties if you don't.

I caught up with Greg Maxwell reddit posts today.

He's truly evil, isn't he?