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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @theariard OP 10 Jan \ parent \ on: Follow-up: Code of Conduct Violation: Banning Antoine Riard for 3 months bitcoin
Thanks to remind me my own words.
I do think the last time I wrote and tested bitcoin code was yesterday and the last time I reviewed bitcoin consensus changes were during the last weeks.
For the reasons motivating any lawsuit against another developer this will be explained in the lawsuit itself, and by default the courts of justice are public.
This is contrary to the emails I have received from the self-appointed lightning code of conduct, of which said emails are received in private.
Publicity is good as any interested bitcoin media will be able to know more.
Sadly, bitcoin developers do not have other ways of solving conflits among themselves rather than old school courts of justice.
One can do a lawsuit with one hand and keep building with the other one.
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This is a good question.
I should have precised inter-personal conflicts among devs, not technical consensus ones. On the technical philosophy, I think the people I’m singling out in my post are in agreement most of the time with my ideas, and vice-versa.
The debate or present conflict is on the conduct of the janitorial maintenance of the public communication channels at large, where Bitcoin domain experts are having usual conversations on technical consensus, while those channels being abused by some to damage one’s professional reputation.
Those channels are shared among all and usually administratively transferred among generations of devs on technical merits criteria. This is consistent with the claim that the Bitcoin development is the "private property” of no one. Otherwise that would mean all the discourse about “decentralization” of Bitcoin is baseless.
The problem of Faketoshi was not going to courts. In democratic societies where the rule of law is reigning this is the norm. The problem with Faketoshi a.k.a CWS was him producing a massive amounts of forged evidences, lying repeatedly in front of judge and engaging in fantasist stories about the past.
Beyond, there was a prominent bitcoin dev, far more veteran than I am, that have been to courts in the past years to defend his own professional reputation against allegations of a recognized applied cryptographer. I do not exactly remember the outcome in this case, though courts records are usually public, and one can go to read them.
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