It is sometimes hard to see through the noise, but for those actually interested, here a VERY incomplete list, just to have an idea where to start:
- Pieter Wuille
- Matt Corallo
- Rusty Russell
- Olaoluwa Osuntokun
- Andrew Poelstra
- Wladimir van der Laan
- Surae and Sarang Noether
- Matthew Green
- Eli Ben-Sasson
- David Burkett
- ... ... (and many many (!) dozens more!)
It is because of so much noise [1], that some other involved sometimes find it hard to stay friendly for an extended period of time (friendliness in this area lead very fast to dubious marketers to abuse (!) that friendliness to market they ponzis. Open source without economic tokens attract less of these people. Some people think it makes open-source + economic tokens a bad idea. Some other disagree and just either avoid the front pages and noise and just code ("cypherpunks write code") and some other struggle to find a balance and communicate more but sometimes a bit rough because of so many scams out there).
In every big community (or country or any other group) you will find nice people and less nice/friendly people. People just see the latter one on twitter (because of how the algo works), and sadly think at all are like that. Sad :(
But happily people like skc ask the important questions loudly :)
[1]: new discoveries (like decentralize digiatal bearer assets) that involve money are bound to such frenzies and therefore noise
edit: just for formatting (the bulletpoints of the list)
- Pieter Wuille
- Matt Corallo
- Rusty Russell
- Olaoluwa Osuntokun
- Andrew Poelstra
- Wladimir van der Laan
- Surae and Sarang Noether
- Matthew Green
- Eli Ben-Sasson
- David Burkett
- ... ... (and many many (!) dozens more!)
It is because of so much noise [1], that some other involved sometimes find it hard to stay friendly for an extended period of time (friendliness in this area lead very fast to dubious marketers to abuse (!) that friendliness to market they ponzis. Open source without economic tokens attract less of these people. Some people think it makes open-source + economic tokens a bad idea. Some other disagree and just either avoid the front pages and noise and just code ("cypherpunks write code") and some other struggle to find a balance and communicate more but sometimes a bit rough because of so many scams out there).
In every big community (or country or any other group) you will find nice people and less nice/friendly people. People just see the latter one on twitter (because of how the algo works), and sadly think at all are like that. Sad :( But happily people like skc ask the important questions loudly :)
[1]: new discoveries (like decentralize digiatal bearer assets) that involve money are bound to such frenzies and therefore noise
edit: just for formatting (the bulletpoints of the list)