He has worked closely with a broad range of people across Bitcoin's user, academic, technical, investor, and business communities from North America, Asia, and Europe, and according to the press release, Adam is a strong advocate for open source, decentralized technologies like Bitcoin However,
his comments on the block size of bitcoin and his general association with Blockstream and Core has made him a somewhat polarizing figure in the community.
And
commenting on the block size issue at a conference in London, BitFury CEO Valery Vavilov stated the «block size should be increased, but in a smart way,» adding that «the solution which was deployed is pretty good: Segregated Witness.»
Not exact matches
While a minority view, the
comments could gain relevance given the emphasis developers at the event put
on seeking solutions for a
block size that would not affect mining profitability.
In a Quora post this week, Ed Felten, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer,
commented on what the White House thinks of bitcoin, including the recent bitcoin
block size debate saying: