Community division in Bitcoin is a feature, not a bug. I think Giacomo lost the plot at some point. I used to like his takes a lot, but his main objection to BIP110 is that if a contentious soft fork ...
He's still the most amazing human being in this arena. Defending Luke on his virtues and criticising on what he disagrees, listen to his talk with @walker for me it was very clarifying. It's a shame we have all this division IMO.
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