Shaving is for pussies. Literally.

Sorry, couldn't resist...

i dont know enough about any of them, and im only familiar with Jeff. Personally id leave it to the devs to decide. they most of all know each other best.

that said, id be interested in gavins choice and reasoning.

is there any type of informal hierarchy regarding skill and capability and possibly previous jobs where they were in charge of a group of programers where they were the lead on a project.

All of these devs hit show results and blushed. Don't let them lie to you.

I would add a dark horse candidate like LukeJr.

Why? No way he's relevant. No way.
Anyway this poll is now closed closed for new candidates, I don't want to distort results by adding candidates in the middle.

FWIW, I always self-selected myself out of the running.  Gavin once asked me What If, and I told him I was not interested in the lead-dev mantle.

Pieter and gmaxwell are the two that come to mind, if Gavin ever goes poof.

But who knows.  Sometimes in the Linux kernel, the maintainer winds up being some relative unknown with great skills and knowledge.

Given the block subsidy wont end for over a hundred thirty years I dont think anyone currently living will still be working on bitcoin at that stage. Unless...

Why should he be listed?

Because waiting at least two years before allowing one megabyte blocks is not compatible with scaling up to deploying a Google portable datacentre-in-a-container in every hobbyists home within two weeks to two months.

We should wait at least two years before risking breaking the poll by including him.

On the other hand I am glad Peter is pulling ahead of Mike because, well, my budget can't quite accommodate one of those portable datacentres for at least three weeks to three months and, gosh, who knows, at the rate BFL Labs is delivering maybe even longer.

I don't even know Peter so don't know why Swiss might be better than Neckbeard but if Mike and Luke are going to be involved anyone but one of them in charge seems prudent to me.

(What, I am exaggerating Mike's position? Y'think? Anyone else's?)

-MarkM-