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I wouldn't be so quick to jump to the conclusion that it's good that devs are getting paid. If they are getting paid in fiat by fiat minds, then they are most likely being paid to subvert humanity's h...

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If devs could control Bitcoin it wouldn't matter who paid them, Bitcoin would already be broken.

Thankfully that is not the case.

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Yes. Everyone/anyone can be captured, as we have daily proof with nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m

I hope that's true, but I certainly think it's reckless to assume that is true. If you corrupt the culture, you corrupt the code, you corrupt the money, and you corrupt the world. It's pretty easy to corrupt a culture with infinite money, so as far as I know humanity's survival depends on our conti...

I’m not so sure your take on this is reasonable. Humans are corruptible and when they depend on money and belonging to a group for their comfort or safety they are willing to go along with the groupthink, which is heavily influenced by the leaders. I think the capture of Core has been a subtle a...

The vast majority of node runners run whatever slop Core ships and they don’t change the configuration. That means Core devs do have a lot of influence over Bitcoin. Sure, a lot of people stayed on older versions of Core and didn’t upgrade to v30+, but almost 20% of the network did upgrade to ...