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Gloria has a CS degree from Berkeley, had solid programming experience, and was the president of Blockchain at Berkeley. A little while before she graduated, she was approached by some Bitcoin Core contributors whether she’d be interested in contributing. She had never looked at Bitcoin, but was hooked the moment she started trying out Bitcoin Core and looked at the code base. (Check out Stephan Livera’s #216 from 2020 to listen to the story.)
In the following years, she contributed immensely to Bitcoin Core, Optech, protocol development, and PR Review Club as well as giving a number of solid talks and podcasts. See e.g., https://x.com/bitcoinbrink/status/1875514461559386632.
The popular take among her detractors is that she’s DEI or even less charitable but more sexist/misogynist theories.
This confirms many of the worst suspicions
a CS degree from Berkeley
This type of credentialism is a liability rather than an asset, this "achievement" signifies proclivities toward group-think and hypersocialism over first-principles and exceptionalism
president of Blockchain at Berkeley ... had never looked at Bitcoin
Reddest of red flags, greatness comes from curiosity
was approached by some Bitcoin Core contributors
NGO operatives
was hooked the moment she started
The promise of an NGO paycheck will "hook" a lot of people on a lot of things.
The fact she never looked at it while being a Berkley CS Degree and leading a Blockchain group is horrible optics. Horrible.
The popular take among her detractors is that she’s DEI or even less charitable but more sexist/misogynist theories.
I mentioned the shit-tier griefing that comes with the territory and don't excuse it, but also the proactive white-knighting almost seems to run cover for the real issue, that NGO's are seemingly up to no good.
Influencer cope. They are pushing their 'implementation' on their followers without explaining any of the risks while running it.
"Blockstream is captured...
Malicious miners are captured...
Exchanges are captured...
HWW companies are captured...
'The Devs' are captured because 'they love spam'...
'The spammers are doing great' these days because...
Everyone wants spam?"
It's incoherent and the reason why Core devs mostly ignore the Knots arguments.
Not sure we know the full story, lots of NGO salaries involved which makes actual governance opaque.
What's the story about how she got her position?