What conspiracy theory?

Fact #1: Gavin was invited by the CIA and accepted invitation.

Fact #2: Gavin founded the now mostly defunct Bitcoin Foundation.

Fact #3: Gavin together with Mike Hearn tried to initiate a non-consensus hardfork with a previously rejected XT-client that implements blacklisting.

Fact #4: Gavin again proves as a perfect servant of the establishment by supporting the blockchain alliance.

Fact #5: Gavin constantly tries to exert political influence on Core development via frequent media appearances.

Regardless if he is evil or hopelessly naive. His actions are damaging Bitcoin and couldn't be further from Satoshi's vision as engraved in the Genesis block.

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Couldn't have said it better.

And people say it's the guys over at Blockstream we should be concerned about 

Gavin and Mike can sit and spin.

XT is going nowhere anyway...  miners have already voted, and they're not willing to adopt it, so Mike and Gavin might as well just talk to a cement wall.

I think you did not think it through. It's very easy to exert factual control over the vast majority of Bitcoin users if you implement blacklisting and use data analysis to track relations between all wallets combined with IP-addresses and information from external sources (identities, businesses etc.).

Governmental control will be greatly facilitated if Bitcoin's privacy features remain weak and node centralization occurs. (Gavin is openly denying the importance of these points.)

ya.ya.yo!