30% of core commits come from blockstream peeps. Saying they ‘dominate’ development is misleading.
The high fees we saw were in part due to jihan’s crew spamming as well as major players like Coinbase not implementing Segwit or batching transactions. Blaming ‘blockstream’ is a cop out
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Blockstream-Core controls the github source tree. They are in total control of Bitcoin BTC.
Parroting Lyin' Ver's talking points just makes you look like a fool.
"483 contributors (and 11,688 forks!) This means that if every technically capable employee at Blockstream contributed to bitcoin , it would make up about 2%."
Medium Article:
https://medium.com/@whalecalls/fud-or-fact-blockstream-inc-is-the-main-force-behind-bitcoin-and-taken-over-160aed93c003
They did, arguably. But I think it should be enough to look at how the design has been twisted on the network in question. No matter who did it or what their end motivations were.
In all honesty, there's no way to know if any particular group has control except when they clearly assert it. This was done previously, but I think is less so since many prominent Blockstream employed went on to other projects. Now we (or most of all of course those invested in ticker BTC) are instead dealing with the remnants.
You can blame high fees on "attackers" all you like, but the Bitcoin design (now in use by BCH) doesn't take motivations into account to this degree, nor should it have to or does it change the fundamentals of the network itself.