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core devs now have to:

- deal with legal threats
- deal with threats from social media brigades run by 2023-era "bitcoin maxi" influencers
- soul crushing and time consuming rebasing and code review
- have deep knowledge of complex cryptographic protocols, engineering and economics

who would want to work on bitcoin at this point? what's the point? to defend the network just to be attacked by lawers and angry mobs?

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Playing the victim card is pathetic. The expectation that core devs can do whatever they want without any negative response from node runners shows how inconsequential you think Bitcoin is. This isn't your average, sleepy foss project with a few hundred users who all completely trust the devs. This ...

Cry harder, don’t work on core then, fork it into some personal project no one uses and do whatever you want.

Consciousness Incarnate · 30w

If reviewing code for #bitcoin is "soul-crushing" to you, that's probably a clear signal that you should step aside. stick to nostr apps or whatever actually gives you a sense of meaning. Perhaps also it is soul crushing for you because you and the Core devs are deliberately violating established an...

I wish all well, I felt terrible sorry to hear that core dev get legal threats ! Thats not fair , after all the hard work and contributions to the development and end up like this . You right . If things not getting better , who wants to Work at BTC project at this point ?

thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ BIP110 · 30w

Pushing contentious changes causes more contention.