In hindsight, the politicization of mining might have been inevitable…but scapegoating of Bitcoin protocol developers needs to stop. Without their incredible work, Bitcoin node software wouldn't be able to keep up with current network demand at all and would be far less secure.

— Eric Lombrozo (@eric_lombrozo) December 12, 2017

Gavin and Mike lobbied industry with a particular agenda without consulting any other protocol developers (https://t.co/j3pmVck4Wd) stating an intent to "be more of a dictator" and to politicize mining (29:40).

— Eric Lombrozo (@eric_lombrozo) December 12, 2017

Then a massive smear campaign against protocol developers who went against this agenda was launched on reddit. This would eventually lead to Mike's rage quit and a hit piece against protocol developers being published in the New York Times.

— Eric Lombrozo (@eric_lombrozo) December 12, 2017

It's bad enough that the accusations leveled at Blockstream are false. Many others who have little to do with Blockstream other than collaboration on open source software development were implicated as well.

— Eric Lombrozo (@eric_lombrozo) December 12, 2017