I’ve read @hodlonaut’s “investigative journalism” so you don’t have to.
It’s the work of a deranged communist who’s mad that:
– people use the technical term, not the ideological one: communists call each other “comrade” and only talk about Bitcoin. “Blockchain” is for dirty capitalist pigs
– people read books outside of the ideological circle and learn words that aren’t approved by the commies
– people have personal opinions that differ from their own. Actually, this is the biggest issue in Bitcoin: there’s a disconnect between the political views of the engineers and those of the average radicalized podcast listener
– people build social clubs & organizations that represent their best interests. In communism, there is no room for individual interests. There’s the ideology and nothing else, you might as well turn in your mother and your siblings for speaking against the doctrine in private settings. Or in this case, the people who give you free software for which you never paid. This is no different from the Bitcoin Foundation – I would argue it’s much better than it, as there’s more transparency and less corruption.
But the solution is always to build your own, put your money and intellect to good use and come up with your own solution. Support Libbitcoin, or else pay other people to do a complete rewrite of the Bitcoin consensus software. Core is not yours, Core does not belong to Blockstream or Chaincode, it’s just a piece of software that anyone can copy, modify and distribute.
The fact that so many people use Core is merely a product of convenience. Smart people work on this and try to break it every day, it’s all visible in a public repository, might as well use the battle tested software. But it’s not the best implementation (see Libbitcoin and some of the improvements that the Bitcoin Cash devs added), it’s just the most popular because of social consensus. Come up with something better and break the monopoly. But don’t bitch like a commie who feels personally entitled to get everything for free.
