Congrats to Kyle Santiago!



https://x.com/BitcoinKnots/status/2115397246967578775

🚨🚨 BREAKING!!! SHOCKING!!! YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS!!! 💥💥

RENEGADE BITCOIN DEV CAUGHT RED-HANDED... LISTENING TO USERS 😱

Knots 29.4.3 is out, and insiders are reeling. Luke has MERGED PR #468. He didn't write it. He personally disagrees with it. He publicly concept-NACKed it.



So why did he merge it?! Sources confirm the motive is even more sinister than feared. Out of a whole pile of competing proposals to extend the 100-block coinbase maturity, this one had the strongest community support (or at least the least screaming). 🤢

But it gets WORSE. In a move experts are calling "deeply unsettling slippery slope," he openly DISCLOSED that he has a personal financial incentive AGAINST the change. In writing. Voluntarily. Without a subpoena. 😨



Let that sink in. A maintainer of his OWN project merged something pushed by the non-technical unwashed masses, at a cost to himself, and then TOLD YOU about his conflict of interest.

Where are the backroom deals? Where's the "trust me bro"? Where's the merge-it-and-ignore-the-NACKs we've come to expect from respectable software developers?!

Textbook dictator behavior. Obvious shitcoin. Avoid at all costs. 🚩🚩🚩

SHARE BEFORE THEY DELETE THIS!!! 👀

For those not paying attention: if Bitcoin on Blake2b wasn't doing some things right, do you really think anyone would bother attacking it?

In less than two months:
1) They tried to get it delisted from the few exchanges that added it. One admin was even offered a six-figure sum.
2) They encouraged Chinese Siacoin miners (same algo) to 51% attack the chain.
3) They built a service to get around the Knots and RDTS filters and started dumping thousands of porn images, chopped into hundreds of small chunks, to bloat the UTXO set and troll the community. Still going on, but not for long.

Who's behind it? No idea, they're not exactly putting their names on it. Most of this happened quietly and then got pushed out on social media to boost the effects. It's made to look like trolling, like nobody's doing it seriously. But dig a little and it gets ugly pretty fast.

A million shitcoins get listed on CEXs and CoinMarketCap with no problem. XBT has a market cap in the billions, currently sits in the top 20, and somehow it's a struggle just to get it seen. Makes you wonder why.

It would be nice if one vote for the right candidate could secure a bright future for your children. If only it were that simple.

Yet most people still believe that voting once every 4 years, at the cost of maybe an hour of their time, will improve their future. I know gamblers who are less naive.