While I generally agree with your statement, I would argue that we do know what bitcoin is. It is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system as stated in the original white paper. That is all it was ever meant to be and perhaps that is all it should ever be. Everything else is a divergence, a mutation, a co-opt. Just because Core made the changes doesn't mean that those changes are "correct". Just because a judge makes a decision doesn't mean it's morally "just". Just because your local pastor makes a declaration doesn't mean it's gospel. These are decisions of the group,. the society, but unfortunately we tend to outsource them to individuals who can wield them as they see fit.

We shall see where things go. Maybe we can see a dozen new bitcoin clients in the next year. Bitaxes on every shelf all creating their own blocks. Decentralize everything. Move the power away from the centralized miners, centralized devs, centralized hardware wallets, and back to the individual where it should be.

Ok, I know you have nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.... but do you have any dice?🤣

Multiple lightning service providers down indefinitely including Boltz, Zeus and more. May be related.

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If your passphrase was the product name it had more entropy than the RNG

Please correct me but as of right now it sounds like it is more related to where you generated your seed from (apparently Coinkite isn't good at randomness)

-generated with Coldcard Mk1, Mk2, Mk3 - BAD, known large hacks move funds now
-generated with Coldcard Mk4, Mk5, Q - still somewhat risky with rumors of hacks so moving funds may be wise

-Passphrase makes it more difficult to hack for all the above
-If you did the paranoid dice-generated seed generation people are saying you should be safe??? Hopefully

Heart goes out to those affected. This really sucks.

Not sure if your "obviously... correct" is a troll, but you do realize that is correct to YOU and your idea of what this new system should be.

There are others that disagree.

I don't believer there is a universally correct answer because we are all different and have different motives , concerns and incentives. We all view bitcoin in a slightly different light. That is fine and that is good! but whenever you have a group of perceived elites make decisions with disregard to what are perceived as valid concerns by a large portion of the community (and then proceed mock and condemn those concerns), there is going to be pushback. We are seeing this everywhere.

The problem is no one knows the future. I worry these changes will place running nodes at risk - financial, legal, moral risks. That concerns me for putting the entire system at risk and thus that makes me cautious of these changes. And I have yet to hear convincing arguments for the change. I guess you don't feel the same. Since we don't know the future, we don't know if your obviously correct future will occur or my "obviously incorrect" one will.

You know these are still primarily interpreted by actual living human beings right ? AI is sometimes used to point out specific diagnoses but overall I wouldnt trust it even for my pet.

A doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient - William Osler

A patient who treats himself has a fool for a doctor - Houndsfieldsunit 😉

Both are tongue in cheek but there is truth in both.

Changing the world one patient at a time ain't a bad goal doc.