http://www.blockcy.com/shocking-allegat ... -consensus
The article is full of important info, such as the (almost?) willful exclusion of Classic developers. Inviting someone for a meeting in China, with just a fwe days notice, is a tactic to wilfully exclude someone while being able to say they were invited. Yes, they technically were. I could invite you to join me for dinner tonight. Now, you are invited. Does not mean you'll be able to make it to this country any time soon.Shocking Allegations Place in Doubt the Hong Kong “Consensus”
2 March 2016
Wang Chun, one of the founders of F2Pool, stated yesterday that Alex Petrov, Chief Information Officer at Bitfury, “had bought a long position just before the [Hong Kong] roundtable, if we did not agree, he would lose huge financially.” Wang Chun further states that Alex Petrov asked him “to “respect” his time by agree[ing to] the consensus asap”. In the absence of these two reasons Wang Chun “would probably have escaped away that night”. Alex Petrov has not yet responded to our requests for comments.
This shocking revelation of collusion and insider dealing is the latest in a series of debacles following the public announcement of “consensus” after an 18 hour long meeting between major miners and some Bitcoin Core developers.
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Underlines are mine. Note that this article is not very clear on all the sources and it may not all be true. But you'd have to question how much value this "consensus" has. In my view it is not worth the paper it is written on. Seriously.Little is known about what happened during one of the most important meetings in bitcoin’s history where approximately 90% of miners were in attendance with few willing to answer our questions. What is known is that the meeting was organized around late January, early February, allegedly in secret. It was brought to public attention on the 15th of February when Marshall Long, the Chief Technology Officer at Final Hash enquired in a public chat about the meeting, stating that no one on the Classic “team” had been aware that a meeting was to take place. He asked to attend, but was told by Kang Xie, one of the organizers of the meeting, that there was no space left.
On the same day, Marshall Long made a public announcement entitled “Core is Planning A Secret Meeting in Hong Kong!”, where he states: “Several miners were told the Classic team would be attending a meeting in Hong Kong ... To the best of my knowledge no classic team members were even told about this meeting. I especially was never told about this.”
On the same day at least two members of the Classic “team” were asked about the meeting. Jeff Garzik, a long standing contributor to bitcoin’s code, disputing that he received an invitation, stated that he was asked whether he was to attend the meeting, presumably by Samson Mow, on the 15th of February. He could not however attend because it coincided with his son’s birthday.
Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, in responding to a number of our questions stated that he was invited to attend by Samson Mow on the 15th of February, but could not attend as he was on vacation with his extended family and had been booked to attend the Financial Cryptography conference in Barbados. Jonathan Toomim, one of the developers of Bitcoin Classic has previously publicly stated that he was invited to attend two days before the meeting, therefore on or around the 18th of February, with the meeting held on the 20th of February. He stated that he could not attend as he could not find someone to look after his mining facility in such a short notice.
With, presumably, at least three spaces now available due to three individuals unable to attend, and with only one member of the Classic team able to make it, it is not confirmed whether Marshall Long tried again to gain access. However, sources familiar with the matter state that “they” simply did not want him to be present because they feared that an agreement would be impossible if members of the Classic team were present.
