Controversy Over Bitcoin Forum Funds Involves Greg Maxwell, Warren Togami, Theymos and Blockstream

Greg Maxwell is a target of a recent online Bitcoin community controversy that originates in an alleged connection between Theymos and a Blockstream employee.
Two of the Bitcoin community’s largest forums, including Reddit Bitcoin and Bitcointalk are operated by Theymos, who despite many criticisms, have maintained the success of both online communities.
A few years ago, Theymos decided to develop innovative forum software to continue the surging growth of Bitcointalk and Reddit Bitcoin. The software is called Epochtalk, and it is still being actively developed by Theymos and his contracted developers.
To Theymos’ credit, only about $50,000 worth of Bitcoin was donated for the development of the forum software and the remaining budget was covered by Theymos’ income from Bitcointalk.
Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell defended the efforts of Theymos in developing this piece of software, considering his dedication in building a better infrastructure for the Bitcoin community.

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2016-10-07.