Over the last couple of days I’ve been asking you guys what you recall about Gavin Andresen & Mike Hearn.
Only one person mentioned that Gavin created multisig and P2SH.
Nobody mentioned that Mike Hearn created the first SPV wallet, which Satoshi described in the whitepaper but never put into practice.
Also, nobody mentioned that Mike Hearn’s LevelDB upgrade has caused an accidental hard fork in Bitcoin back in March 2013.
Both Gavin and Mike did a lot of cool stuff before the community crucified them. However, it’s only the bad deeds that get remembered – and a narrative gets constructed around them to justify the excommunication.
Kind of sad in hindsight, as any of today’s heroes will have his merits erased from history the moment he or she doesn’t conform with the latest version of maximalism.
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