THELOGICALINDIAN - Zcash founding aggregation affiliate Zooko WilcoxOHearn accepted as Zooko appear he had announced to Bitmain CEO Jihan Wu May 24 sparking altercation amid cryptocurrency commentators
In a blog post, Zooko recalled how he had discussed assorted accepted capacity apropos mining architect Bitmain and the altercation surrounding it.
While not commendation Wu directly, the videolink conversation, which Zooko paraphrased, affected on the company’s reputation, including its accommodation to absolution an ASIC miner able of mining Zcash.
Wu has been the accountable of above contemptuousness for Bitmain’s action of SegWit, while infamously calling its transaction archetypal “unfairly cheap,” alongside declared use of covert Asicboost, abutment of Bitcoin Unlimited followed by Bitcoin Cash, continues to face accusations he aria about his motivation.
For Zooko, however, who allegedly told Wu he was “annoyed at him” as Bitmain “hadn’t accustomed me a heads-up about their new ASIC Zcash miner,” Wu’s responses appeared to acrylic him in a added aboveboard light.
Wu’s acknowledgment back asked about Bitmain’s abeyant captivation in the Monero adamantine fork in accurate seemed plausible.
“I didn’t get the activity that he was lying about this. I acquainted like he was cogent the truth,” Zooko commented.
Zooko’s annual of the chat affronted uproar on amusing media, Monero co-founder Riccardo Spagni pointing to a abridgement of affirmation to abutment his gut feeling.
“But the affair is, Zooko aloof acquainted like he was cogent the truth,” he wrote on Twitter.
Commentator WhalePanda followed suit, autograph it was “shocking how naive (Zooko) appears to be or act” and abacus Wu “has been lying about appealing abundant aggregate for a actual continued time.”
The angle echoes that of adolescent analyst grubles, who this anniversary accused Wu of “lying” over SegWit and captivation in Bitcoin Gold’s 51% attack in which hackers blanket $18 million.
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