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Core'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 Wirdum20d ago

The 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 Lopp20d ago

Bitcoin 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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₿itcoin Serbia 🇷🇸 ⚡🚀20d ago

Odell should watch your discussion with @92cbe586…116433b8. Can learn a lot from you and the way how to discuss things in honest objective manner and without personal attacks.

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Telluride20d ago

I also get no sense of dishonesty from either of them. When i hear Lopp, shinobi etc or pretty much any Core supporter, the arguments don’t ever fit. I hope its just greed motivating them but Im worried it’s that they are co-opted like Adam. It’s the only thing that fits. Im definitely worried about bitcoin.

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