Disgusting isn't it? They've been working on a project called Mimble
   Wimble which may eventually be a direct replacement/competitor for
   Bitcoin as well. In fact lots of people are working on non-Bitcoin
   projects in stealth.

   What we need is some good leftists to come around and smash the
   investment capitalists completely out of The cryptocurrency space.

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   On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:53 PM, juan <[1]juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:

     Here's a little company called
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockstream
     with direct ties to the most toxic, anti 'cypherpunk' forces on
     the planet.
     http://www.coindesk.com/blockstream-21-million-seed-capital/
     "Additional investment firms...Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s
     Innovation Endeavors, "
     It turns out that blockstream's 'leaders' are pretty
     'influential' bitcoin developers. They seem opposed to
     increasing the block size limit at the moment but they pretend
     that their political decision is 'apolitical' 'unbiased' 'code'.
     Now some background. Bitcoin, allegedly
     "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow
     online payments to be sent directly from one party to another
     without going through a financial institution."
     keywords, peer to peer, no financial middlemen.
     Now it gets interesting. Blockstream has a solution to
     increase bitcoin's capacity, which I don't think can be
     described as "purely peer-to-peer" and involving no middlemen
     at all. As a matter of fact, blockstream solution is to create
     middlemen that will process the vast majority of
     transaction...because they can't scale bitcoin (technical
     failure) or they don't want (political failure).

References

   1. mailto:juan.g71@gmail.com