Agree. Gavin, IMO had some decent ideas and just wanted Bitcoin to grow. I give him a break regarding the blocksize wars. Everyone forgets that the ORIGINAL devs wanted it to be a P2P system with little friction, and Satoshi put in the blocksize limit only to prevent DDOS attacks as a temporary measure.

I'm not saying things can't change, but that was the framework Gavin had going into it all. Imagine a modest blocksize was implemented - like really modest. It might not have made much a difference. Layer 2 "solutions" have been slow to roll out etc etc. I think or hope history looks back on Gavin and cuts him some slack.

And great point. Gavin supported a fork instead of just getting stuck on a BIP or upgrade. So it did work out for the best atlfterall.

I read some blog post he made and he basically said he thought he was doing the best given what he knew. It came across as sympathetic.

Ossifying L1 seems like the good choice now, but hindsight is 20/20.

Agree on CSW. Guy couldn't be worse in every sense. Ick.