Blockstream, the company says provide scalable solutions for Bitcoin, is in an exceptional situation unlike any other company in this space, Blockstream does not seek to compete for the favor of the user need not even ask someone their services- because he believes have found a way to mold Bitcoin according to their interests . Their strategy has been very simple, and reveals how far we have neglected bitcoiners decentralization of development.
Discretely and silently soon Blockstream came to recruit enough developers of Bitcoin Core (the Bitcoin client most used) as for the market completely isolated, introduce problems where there were none and then presented as the only option to "save Bitcoin" .It is the modus operandi that the State has accustomed us, with all its ingredients: the nonexistent problem that official propaganda is responsible for prioritizing; the program comes to "solve" the problem and in the process creates real problems; and finally the demand for more power to solve the same problems that the intervention itself has created or exacerbated.
The question of the maximum block size is just the excuse they have found to try tohijack the development of Bitcoin - an implausible excuse for anyone with basic knowledge of economics and learn the reason why Satoshi Nakamoto introduced this parameter -.
To make transactions outside the chain of blocks look attractive, Blockstream first have to cripple Bitcoin . A limit of 1 MB for block transactions converitirÃa to Bitcoin in a futile system for payments p2p, hideously complicated user interface with the system, and expose Bitcoin to denial of service that can be executed at minimal cost.
All this plan, worthy of a comic book supervillain, makes sense when one learns that Blockstream boys were doing while taking off from the ground Bitcoin (instead of investing in mining bitcoins or bitcoins). To begin with, among employees of Blockstream there are two developers and active promoters of Freicoin (ie two guys who believe that the limit on the issuance of currency is bad and that spending must be stimulated), an desarrolador of IXcoin (perhaps the project perhaps stupidest or the most blatant scam, it is difficult unknowingly in the history of criptomonedas), and one of those responsible for Intersango (a site of exchange before closing took the money from their customers).
Moreover, among those who signed the decree by which Blockstream aims to smother Bitcoin is a striking number of developers involved in altcoins (litecoin, Viacoin, ethereum, Siacoin, Namecoin, mastercoin, among other distractions that have caused huge losses to the unwary).
Bitcoin while taking off, who years later would be the founders of Blockstream were busy arguing that he had no future . For Gregory Maxwell (the Führer of Blockstream, uncompromising supporter of blocks of 1 MB for all eternity) is well known, but Adam Back (the very creator of the test work that would become one of the pieces Bitcoin key) it is emblematic: in 2009, 2010 and 2011 did nothing to dismiss, and in 2013 finally decided to invest, right at the height of the bubble, with nearly US $ bitcoin 1200). That must hurt…
There are two ways to deal with remorse: one, I assume (in this case, recognize that missed the opportunity to become early adopters because of their economic illiteracy ) and correct the course (in this case, invest in bitcoins and contribute to the development of Bitcoin); the other, deny and angry with the world. The Blockstream boys are angry, and if we become aware of what is happening will not rest until destroy the vision of Satoshi Nakamoto. Nobody asked their "solutions"; no one is happy with the problems they generate; the only thing holding his influence , though increasingly more difficult - customer inertia is initiated by Satoshi Nakamoto.
They earn (or pretend to win) the Blockstream boys is obvious: economic value at theexpense of Bitcoin, if they manage to ruin. They have not invested in the success of Bitcoin, but hope to get rich "solutions" mounted on a Bitcoin reduced to "layer liquidations" .
Having said all that, I insist on that point I would have no problem with Blockstream and all who are at your service if it were not for his dictatorial and anti -market attitudes. If they are really sure that the path they have chosen (the destruction of the incentive system that has worked until today) is best for Bitcoin and not just for them, why they fear competition implementations ?; Why treat any alternative implementation as an attack ?; Why resort to censorship and all kinds of mafia tactics?
If you believe that Satoshi Nakamoto was wrong, they should launch their own Bitcoin altcoin and leave in peace. But we know very well that they will not do; up to us to drive them out and show the world what happens to who gets with Mr. Bitcoin .