be friendly and peaceful fuz!
*skepticism should be directed towards systems / incentive structures and not against people.
I appreciate charles' presence here on the forum. Both communities win and can colaborate! Both sides loose in a war (always!), friendly collaboration makes everyone gain. Also being friendly on a personal/individual level is the only possible basis to criticize the other one's systems in a rational and constructive way. I don't see any contradiction with my critique of ethereum and a welcoming attitude towards its creators.
I appreciate that perspective and also share it.
Specialized ASICs and big money will not be required for him to have access...it is my sincere hope he can appreciate this ease of access!
Fuz you have been spreading this FUD for weeks throughout many channels. We do not endorse ASICs and have gone on record many times specifically stating that our goal is to have an ASIC immune CPU friendly algorithm. It is even listed as a research problem for the CCRG agenda. It is a lie. Please stop saying it.
As for funding, we have received no outside investment. 100 percent of Ethereum's operations have thus far been covered by people within the project including myself. We have no relationship with Goldman Sachs or any bank nor will receive an investment from them. I campaigned in 2008 for Ron Paul in Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire against the corruption of banks and find your recent comments enormously offensive to both my history in this space and to the people working on the Ethereum project.
I specifically recall you speaking of using specialized ASICs. I do not intentionally spread "FUD". With that said, the context may have been slightly different to what you are thinking because although you speak of trying to keep things CPU friendly in many of your interviews, it also has been basically admitted that this will only create ASIC-resistance--we know where that always ends (specialized ASICs). To me, I have learned my lesson on ASIC-resistance, first from litecoin and even here with PTS's "memory-hard" mining. Botnets are no different from ASICs with regard to centralization--but I do not see much about that. Perhaps I need to read more. Still queezy in the stomach....
With regard to Goldman Sachs...all people are able to judge for themselves if they want to support something with Ex-Goldman Sachs advisors/analysts. I am not and it is hard to see how anyone who worked for a libertarian campaign would be willing to. I am only one person, but is it not fair for me to say "no thanks" to that proposition? I simply tell people there is potentially a very real danger there. Sure they may be great people...but they also may not be--considering the institution for which they at one time chose to work, I for one am not willing to take the risk of supporting something that may have them invested in any way. Can we seriously say there is such a severe lack of talent out there that we need to bring people who worked for the Robo-signing "Market-Makers" into the development of what you want to make the New Internet?
I will gladly change my mind if you can show me quotes of these individuals resigning angrily from Goldman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nPzUnvyb3w pretty sure this guy is not one of the GS guys you have working for you, but if so I apologize.
Is there a place where we can see exactly where your funding is coming from? Is there transparency to a degree that anyone can audit your funding at present? These are very solid questions that everyone should be asking before considering investing.
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