Interview with key Bitcoin Core developer, Luc Junior.

The reader is offered an exclusive interview with Luke Dashjr, one of the key Bitcoin Core developers, the author of the complete Bitcoin Knots wallet (where updates come in slightly earlier than in the Core releases), and a very good person. What is Bitcoin waiting for in the light of activation of BIP91? Is it worth investing in 'blockbuster start-ups'? When will SegVit be activated at last? Answers to these and other questions - read in the article!

BN: How do you assess the impact of the efforts of Vera, Jihan, Armstrong and other 'big blockers' on Bitcoin's destabilization, in part by spreading despondency and delaying time?

Luke: No way.

BN: How can such services as blockchain.info collect $ 40 million of venture money, without any feedback from users?

Luke: Fundraising is not my specialty, so I do not have an opinion on this.

BN: Do you see Bitcoin and his consensus model as a technical and mental substitute for democracy and 51% voting?

Luke: No, Bitcoin's consensus model is not democratic: the majority can not control the minority.

BN: Why do people believe in the idiotic stories of Roger Vera in the r / btc branch, instead of directly addressing the actions and words of most Core developers?

Luke: Do they believe? It does not look like so many people pay attention to Roger.

BN: How do you see the confrontation BIP148 vs. BIP149? Which BIP will prevail and why?

Luke: BIP148 is more advanced in technical terms, as well as more significant in terms of time frames. It is very simple, and directly refers to the 'shortened paths' presented in BIP9. The final result will be visible in a very short time, and there will be no doubt whether it has been successfully activated or failed. BIP149, on the other hand, adds a lot of complexity, as its design allows for some very serious risks.

He demands that the SeqVita process be re-created, which is difficult (partly due to the fact that SegWit was active almost a year ago) and it's dangerous if you do not take care of everything. For this reason, the safe re-activation of SegVit is likely to take place in the summer of 2018 the earliest, and most likely, it will not happen until 2019 or 2020. This will give considerable time to the Altokemans, who already have a working SegWit to overcome Bitcoin; Lightning - greatly changes the rules of the game, and most likely it will be enough to bypass the market effect Bitcoin. Finally, even if BIP149 succeeds, it will leave SegVit in an unclear state, where there is no exact definiteness, is active and safe, or even failed at all. Therefore, it will further push aside the adoption of SeqVit in Bitkoyne, since people will not be able to determine exactly whether it is possible to rely on it in terms of security.

For all the reasons listed above, I believe that BIP149 is stillborn, and BIP148 is a single living version of development.

BN: How many Bitcoin-related companies officially donated money to the Bitcoin Core team?

Luke: I do not know.

BN: What will be the next 'breakthrough' in Bitcoin, after SeqVit / Lightning? Maybe the space nodes (nodes)?

Luke: Most likely - either Schnorr or MAST.

BN: What is your opinion on the blockade fetish? All these projects can explode like a dot-com bubble?

Luke: Most of the people involved in the blockbuster of the HYIP are misled, these people are trying to use blockade in things for which it is bad (or not at all) adapted.

BN: It would be interesting to know your opinion about the division of the Etherium, and the appearance of the Classic version. Do you, perhaps, have a pet?

Luke: I think that the Etherium is interesting as a toy project, but the Etherium Classic is simply part of it. At the moment, I do not consider these projects serious competitors Bitkoyu generally. They definitely have some flaws in the design, as well as a much worse scalability than Bitcoin.

BN: Core guys never wanted to come up with software tools to limit corporate influence on Bitcoin? What about a common network of all nodes in the same building, for example?

Luke: That does not make sense, technically speaking.

BN: What is your opinion on the ICO super-trend?

Luke: I did not follow the process of holding such campaigns too closely, but my vision of all this is that most are scammers. The regulation and punishment of scammers is a work for governments, not for blockbusters.

BN: Is it good or bad that BIP91 seems to be the winner in the SegVit activation race?

Luke: There are certain risks to using BIP91, however, the activation of SeqVita is a victory for users, regardless of the method.

BN: Is it true that BIP91 sets a hard-fork block size to 2 MB on 17 or 18 November? If so, then what is the meaning of SegVit's activation?

Luke: No, it's not. BIP91 is only used in SegWit2x for the part where you want to activate SegVit. He does not participate in conducting hard forks. Also, SegWit2x does not use BIP91 for its attempt.

source: https://bitnovosti.com