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.
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<div>What we need is some good leftists to come around and&nbsp;smash the investment capitalists completely out of The cryptocurrency space.</div>
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            </div>On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:53 PM, juan &lt;<a href="mailto:juan.g71@gmail.com" class="">juan.g71@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div>
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            <br />Here's a little company called
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            <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockstream
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            <br />with direct ties to the most toxic, anti 'cypherpunk' forces on
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            <br />http://www.coindesk.com/blockstream-21-million-seed-capital/
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            <br />"Additional investment firms...Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s
            <br />Innovation Endeavors, "
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            <br />It turns out that blockstream's 'leaders' are pretty
            <br />'influential' bitcoin developers. They seem opposed to
            <br />increasing the block size limit at the moment but they pretend
            <br />that their political decision is 'apolitical' 'unbiased' 'code'.
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            <br />Now some background. Bitcoin, allegedly
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            <br />"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow
            <br />online payments to be sent directly from one party to another
            <br />without going through a financial institution."
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            <br />keywords, peer to peer, no financial middlemen.
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            <br />Now it gets interesting. Blockstream has a solution to
            <br />increase bitcoin's capacity, which I don't think can be
            <br />described as "purely peer-to-peer" and involving no middlemen
            <br />at all. As a matter of fact, blockstream solution is to create
            <br />middlemen that will process the vast majority of
            <br />transaction...because they can't scale bitcoin (technical
            <br />failure) or they don't want (political failure).
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