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I’m spending a lot of time debating people about Bitcoin online these days. One issue that I encounter regularly is that my opposite colloquists are unaware of the contributions the Blockstream developers have added to the Bitcoin project since the company was founded.
My aim is twofold: I’d like to be able to simply link this question next time I read "Blockstream produces only vapour, and contributes nothing", and I think that the answer to this question deserves more visibility.
Please list what measurable contributions Blockstream developers have made to the Bitcoin project?
1Good question. I'll add to the answer later. Note that you are limiting this list to Blockstream (that's ok) but most of the members of what is now Blockstream were already big contributors to Bitcoin before Blockstream was founded. Just wanted to leave that as a side note. – Jannes – 2016-01-18T19:15:03.267
@Jannes: This is intentional as for some reason there is a prevalent prejudice against the work of developers since their joining of Blockstream. It doesn't have to be answered that strictly though. – Murch – 2016-01-18T20:14:50.580
@Murch note, that I replied to the question in bold, ie. contributions to the Bitcoin project in a general sense rather than contributions to bitcoin-core only. I just realized that maybe you meant only bitcoin-core..? I will try to update including more specific information on that. – karask – 2016-01-19T09:35:45.817
@karask: No, not necessarily. I mostly would like to have an overview of tangible contributions to refer to. :) – Murch – 2016-01-19T09:44:13.727
@Murch ah, great then those are by far their biggest contributions that I know of and I might add more if something new comes to my attention. – karask – 2016-01-19T12:50:31.607