GAVIN ANDRESEN: WE HAVE A BITCOIN SOFT FORK GOING ON – ETA OF INCREASED BLOCK SIZE ‘6 MONTHS TO A YEAR’

I saw Gavin Andresen throughout the day, mostly while he was giving a presentation. Though I was lucky enough to sit down with Gavin and Mike (Hearn) during lunch. However their ‘tech speak’ went a bit over my head while I quietly observed and ate the delicious dinner that had been prepared by the venue. It was not until the Blockchain.info after-party that I managed to get Gavin on his own for a little while for a chat and an interview.
What do you hope the audience got from your presentation?
Gavin Andresen: ‘Whenever I do a presentation, I’m hoping that I don’t bore them, hoping that I do have some information. And today’s presentation was the presentation and a Q & A, and I wholly support the Q & A because I am looking to get as much information from the audience as I give to them. And I get information by the questions they ask, understanding what they understand.
I much prefer to listen than to lecture, so I am always excited to do as much Q & A as I can. As opposed to just getting up there and talking about stuff that people can look up online.’
Are there any questions you were hoping to be asked in your Q & A?
Gavin Andresen: ‘No, not really, I mean I am always wondering what people are thinking. I think that my job is judging consensus, and I think, given the questions people ask, you can kind of figure out what people are worried about and what we don’t have consensus about.
There was a question today about the centralization of mining, goes back and forth in a session. Obviously one of those questions people care about, so what I have informed is my thinking, and it makes me think, maybe I should think about that some more. So I don’t really go in with pre-conceived notions of I would love to talk about this or that.’

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on 22/04/2015.