notlukejr

Source or link to browser market share? 8% seems too low for FireFox.

Source or link to actual salaries?

Your President, Adam Back, said on Reddit that half of the initial seed money (which was $21m) had been spent, just after the announcement of your series A ($55m). Who to believe?

Or was he speaking as an "individual" rather than an employee of Blockstream? Are we to believe that multiple employees of Blockstream fly to Hong Kong, stay in hotels, but are there acting in an individual capacity?

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/46s54r/why_has_blockst...

Do you trust these people?

Austin Hill, CEO of Blockstream, admits to committing fraud to scam people:

http://betakit.com/montreal-angel-austin-hill-failed-spectac...

Greg Maxwell, CTO of Blockstream, vandalizes pages on Wikipedia for fun:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Adminis...

Patrick Strateman, co-founder of Blockstream, has been accused of fraud/theft:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159071.0

Luke-Jr, consultant to Blockstream claims the sun orbits the earth, slavery is okay, sodomy should be punished by death and that gay marriage is a logical impossibility.

http://forums3.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?p=203850#p2038...

https://np.reddit.com/r/bitcoin_uncensored/comments/492ztl/l...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/48avz0/inform...

Bram Cohen has always hated Bitcoin.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/41exno/bram_cohen_hate...

Which makes it strange how in 2015 he suddenly took an interest in Bitcoin and (1) supports everything Blockstream is doing (2) writes blog posts attacking long-time Bitcoin contributors like Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen.

Perhaps Bram Cohen is "consulting" for Blockstream? They admit they spent over $10m+ in their first 12 months of operations in 2015 which is a high burn rate considering how few full-time employees ("founders") they had during that time.

> Out of the 6 maintainers with commit access on GitHub, only a single developer is associated with Blockstream.

Please don't be so naive.

Greg Maxwell gave up his commit access for "optics" - to make BlockStream look better.

Meanwhile, Wladimir van der Laan, the project maintainer, says he won't accept any code contributions which are "controversial". That is, he wants 100% consensus for larger blocks. Yet he blindly accepts anything from Blockstream employees such as RBF and segregated witness fee discounts which are controversial.

Also, Blockstream burnt through $10m+ in 12 months, how much of that went into paying consultants and "supporters" such as Peter Todd, Luke-Jr, and even Bram Cohen who laughed at Bitcoin until suddenly in 2015 he loved everything Blockstream was doing?

Finally, investors? Investors will say and do anything if it helps them make money!