Comment 20 for bug 1803914

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Gal Buki (torusjkl) wrote :

SNAPCRAFT_BUILD_INFO=1 looks desirable and I will include it in the next release.

Regarding transferring the control of the snap.
The Bitcoin Core developers are known to be very loud (accusing everyone not part of their inner circle of being malicious) and like to monopolize everything around bitcoin.
Like claiming to be the only rightful group to use the name bitcoin.

If this snap was called bitcoin-core I would have understood their claim and options 1) or 2) would have been fair.

But claiming the name bitcoin as their own solely based on the fact that their implementation is currently the most used on the BTC chain does not care any merit.
First of all, it is not guaranteed that their implementation will stay the most used and second it is not even a given that this metric is the correct one to use in the first place.

Bitcoin is more than just the name of a repository on GitHub.
It is an idea, an economic system, multiple competing implementations and parties and above all it is decentralized.
This has let to many people owning the bitcoin name in various ways.

bitcoin.org is owned by Cobra
bitcointalk.org is owned by Theymos
/r/bitcoin is owned by Theymos
bitcoin.com is owned by Roger Ver
/r/btc is owned by Roger Ver
bitcoincore.org is owned by the Bitcoin Core team
github.com/bitcoin is owned by the Bitcoin Core team
bitcoinknots.org is owned by Luke Dash-Jr
gitlab.com/bitcoin is owned by Luke Dash-Jr
bitcoin Debian packages are owned by the Debian Cryptocoin team (and other individuals)
bitcoin the snap is owned by Gal Buki

The only one person who would have the right to dispute a "namesquatting" and claim the bitcoin name for all of the above would be Satoshi Nakamoto.

For what it's worth the Bitcoin Core team is doing their fair share of namesquatting the bitcoin name by owning the name on GitHub to keep their implementation (called Bitcoin Core) under this name and giving the impression that they are Bitcoin.