22 sats \ 3 replies \ @theshanergy 13 Jun 2022 \ parent \ on: Who's the owner of the Bitcoin Github repo? How did they become the owner? bitcoin
Luke Dashjr did exactly this with Gentoo, adding address blacklisting to bitcoind.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @satoshisat OP 13 Jun 2022
Whaa? Do you have any links or resources that goes into more detail on this? I'm curious.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @theshanergy 13 Jun 2022
This was quite a while ago and I'm going off memory, but I found this - https://bugs.gentoo.org/531634
*edit - also https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pfgjg/exposed_lukejr_plans_on_forcing_blacklists_on_all/
He did so with the intention of blacklisting certain "spammers" (his words) which included SatoshiDICE which at the time was extremely popular. Very slippery slope imo.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlueSlime 14 Jun 2022
thank you for digging this up! This part of Bitcoin's history is close to being forgotten!
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