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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @satoshisat OP 13 Jun 2022 \ parent \ on: Who's the owner of the Bitcoin Github repo? How did they become the owner? bitcoin
Whaa? Do you have any links or resources that goes into more detail on this? I'm curious.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @theshanergy 13 Jun 2022
This was quite a while ago and I'm going off memory, but I found this - https://bugs.gentoo.org/531634
*edit - also https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pfgjg/exposed_lukejr_plans_on_forcing_blacklists_on_all/
He did so with the intention of blacklisting certain "spammers" (his words) which included SatoshiDICE which at the time was extremely popular. Very slippery slope imo.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlueSlime 14 Jun 2022
thank you for digging this up! This part of Bitcoin's history is close to being forgotten!
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