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by uncletammy 1976 days ago
> Gavin admitted he should have been removed because he stopped contributing

Citation desperately needed. Here's a contribution from literally the day before he had his commit access stolen.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/006cdf64dc932

Even if he did say that, it's irrelevant to this discussion. Him "no longer contributing" was not the reason his commit access was revoked. It was revoked as a power grab because he wanted to and had the power to increase the block size. Nothing more.
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grubles 1976 days ago
His access was revoked because having unused keys to the Bitcoin code is an attack vector.

Citation here BTW: https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1247592193319198720

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uncletammy 1975 days ago
> His access was revoked because having unused keys to the Bitcoin code is an attack vector.

Yes I agree this was the public justification for it. That being said, I'm certain they wouldn't have acted in the same way if it had been Luke jr or Greg Maxwell. They pulled his access because he wanted bigger blocks and he was ruining the official narrative.

I believe your citation but the point still stands.

And for future reference, a citation isn't generally accepted when it's just a screenshot you posted in a tweet you once made where the screenshot reveals a comment to a random reddit post with no visible url in it.

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