Roger has been getting some slack for his ideas with regards to bitcoin scaling, and I must admit, I don't understand why? He only wants to follow Satoshis white paper, which we all should with regards to bitcoin.
I tweeted him a while ago simply asking, "if one wanted to increase the block size on bitcoin, how would they do it". It looks like he's answering my question by investing in a dev team and a mining pool. Thats great. I love it when people see an issue they feel they can fix and just work towards fixing it.
I have been following Roger for a while, and I must admit, he is an inspiration and was my entry into bitcoin. There is a great clip on a documentary he's on where he talks about undermining the power of government (by taking power away from the banks), citing a 60 minutes interview with Madelaine Albright commenting about how thousands of Iraqi children lives lost due to the invasion where nothing more than collateral damage. His passion in that clip has stayed with me. Join Steemit.com Roger! You'd be a valued participant!
FYI, "slack" means "loose" or "relief", which is the opposite of what I think you mean. I think the phrase you're looking for is "taking some flak".
and you know, when I typed that I sensed that it was wrong. Thank you for confirming my senses!