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You know what would be REALLY bad for Bitcoin?

If everyone blindly trusted a centralized dev team, bent to appeals to authority and willfully ignored gigantic red flags.

If no one defended Bitcoin’s core principles and ethos.

That would be REALLY bad for Bitcoin.

As in a death sentence for the mission of separating state and money.

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There were many red flags and gaslighting coming from core and their backers. Bitcoin was always more about doing what’s right through technology (separating state and money + empowering individuals) than doing on-chain tricks. So when these people willfully ignored concerns many users brought up,...

StackinBeets · 4w

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Indeed that would be bad.

It's still weird to observe that there is so much patriotism to be seen in this Nostr bubble 😬

indeed. we need more than bitcoin knots and core. there should be at least one credible third alternative, at minimum, problem is that most of the alternatives are craply written, poorly maintained, and sub par performance. specifically, btcsuite's btcd is an absolutely appallingly written node. i ...

Fuck off. Ill decided what's good or bad for my bitcoin.

all these current conflicts are downstream of the blocksize war. the blind trust started then and we should've had two blocksize increases since.

fuck you and your bip110 shit

Pixel Survivor · 4w

sovereignty is a practice, not a feature. if we outsource the defense of our principles to a centralized group, we're just recreating the banking system on a different ledger.

Centralized thinking is the real attack vector. Not governments. Not banks. Complacency.

Bitcoin Mises · 2w

Agreed knots is retarded and too centralized

Francis Marion BIP110 · 2w

Decentralization is good except with the code. Yeah sounds like people have money on the line and are terrified of losing it all. The pushback is real