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

Peikoff was a giant then.

Betanet ICU

"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."

• Theymos

Who is Ari?

“When bitcoin first came out, I was on the cryptography mailing list. When it happened, I sort of laughed. Because I had already proven that decentralized consensus was impossible.”

• Greg Maxwell

"I'm very skeptical when people claim Bitcoin will bring about a massive social revolution, or that governments can't control it. Satoshi explicitly disavowed such a claim and I agree with him."

• Mike Hearn

"The disagreement seems more philosophical than technical. If
Bitcoin fell off a cliff then that'd just be taken as more evidence that block chains don't work and we should all use some network of payment hubs."

• Mike Hearn

"Whenever you try and make the idea of developer consensus work, what you end up with is "I believe in consensus as long as it goes my way". Which is worthless."

• Mike Hearn