hodlonaut24d agoCore's arrogance and recklessness in uncapping OP_RETURN in the face of broad and real controversy is imo where the ego is found. It predictably created the current situation.
I get zero impression that Luke and Mechanic are driven by pure ego and desire for control/power, rather that they're trying to protect Bitcoin from eroding away from its core mission of being money separate from the state.
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Aaron van Wirdum24d agoThe day Bitcoin Core developers bend to the pressure of a misguided Twitter mob riled up by populist social media influencers, instead of merging code based on their best technical judgement, is the day the codebase should be forked to re-establish sound engineering practices.
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Jameson Lopp24d agoBitcoin Core maintains its reputation by making difficult technical decisions despite upsetting ignorant folks.
The neat thing is, if your feelings are hurt you can always write your own code. Or you can run code from a monarchist sedevacantist who thinks heretics should be murdered by the State and claims nobody could create a better self custody setup than his hot wallet that lost him his life savings.
Freedom is great!
https://blog.lopp.net/knot-a-serious-project/
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