&quot;He also complained of denial-of-service attacks against Coinbase and others, while The New York Times reported that some developers had received death threats.<p>[...]<p>But he raises a good point—denial-of-service attacks and death threats notwithstanding.<p>[...]<p>This is pretty much how things are supposed to work. Sure, [...] the election tactics got out of hand at times. But, well, this is the internet.&quot;<p>This is a hell of a thing to yadda yadda. Calling DDOSes and death threats &quot;election tactics&quot; is ridiculous. If running X version of bitcoin is voting, then it&#x27;s not a (free) election if you interrupt people on the way to the polls and intimidate them when they&#x27;re not backing your candidate.