i assume many know this already from experience, but what isnt super clear is what alternatives exist. i think BDFL combined with forkable open source and high modularity might help most. The risk i see is that it could cause a cambrian explosion of forks where some remain compatible and some lose compatibility making them not interoperable. On the other hand, mqybe thats okay? it puts all power into the hands of users to choose/use the implementation they believe in. Mass adoption causes network effects and industry best practices with some degree of interoperability. Users can reap benefits from choosing a solution that is interoperable with many others... but everyone can choose what price they are willing to pay for that if that means they deviate from their preferred ideal solution. It also means ppl can try out and learn and change their mind over time.

I don't think people act more like adolescents, this is just some parties trying to make certain kinds of sentiments stick with certain kinds of issues to attack it. The issue is more with some people who might have a larger following and are well known influencers for a perticular topic. I feel it is important to call them out, even if they are partially correct, because bitcoin is here for the world to unite and not to divide further. It's difficult enough to explain bitcoin and get the message across, so making it harder unnecessarily doesnt help. Anyway - i think the silent majority is very reasonable, but small loud minorities like to give that impression you mention here and we really dont need it.

super sad that max imho rightfully calls our core30 ...but unnecessary adds as many trigger words as possible to repel a lot of people who should totally embrace bitcoin and stand up against core30. This causes unnecessary divide where it wasnt needed. Why not stick to the actual facts? Everyone I'm aware of thus far was well able to critizise bitcoin core without going completely off topic into all kinds of politics

First of all, I am happy to see Max calls out Bitocoin Core for the ludacris core30 proposal, but .... I'm quite shocked as well of reading nonsense like relating this to: 1. charly kirk 2. DEI 3. woke 4. US dollar loving 5. incel 6. trans 7. social justice warriors etc... One can properly call out nonsense without adding/correlating it to other "battlefields", that make it politically contentious amongst people who might actually support the issue at hand, but are now discriminated against for no reason. Nobody asked for that. Super unreasonable and unneeded. We all have to learn how to kill our idols and instead just idolize ideas or ideals.... ...any human - no matter how right they can be in some aspect can be unreasonable in others. **The gist:** => Make up your own minds please 🙂 supertestnet

💯 Bitcoin isn't enough though. Bitcoin is of course foundational, but it needs a lot of education and practice how to use it to sustain freedom. Bitcion is a tool, but just like every tool, it needs practice to master it.

This is a very mich needed narrative, because while it is true and well known criticism that governments print money and cause all kinds of issues, its sadly much less widely known, that this is a bit less than half the problem Capitalism as the world as known it for ages is essentially money printing as THE capitalist class privilege. Bitcoin fixes this and creates a new kind of economics - similar to some theories that exist, but unthinkable in the past and so different, that it deserves a new name. "bitcoinism", which sadly not much genuine research has been done about. It's a unique opportunity for humanity 🙂

try https://keet.io instead

💯 imho perserverance is the only quality all entrepreneurs share regardless of what other philosophies or values they attribute their success to

Actually, maybe the proper thing to do is crack down of other existing means of spam. Here is a proposal: https://x.com/SuperTestnet/status/1967721427563618414

how do you throw them out?

Interesting. Quite surprising to hear that from somebody who likely is brainwashed to the core. "Risk Averse"? ...interesting. Where is the risk? Seems more of a risk to not buy bitcoin. Is he a CBDC fan? Is he working on the implementation? What did you tell him? 😛

what did the IT guy say? 🙂

actually i asked him and he already said he trusts in bitcoin core devs and beliefs in what they do. when asking him for why he thinks core 30 would e.g. protect against centralization or do something good in other ways, he doesnt answer. In fact, few probably know that core30 is motivated by citreas smart contract use case. https://x.com/asanoha_gold/status/1964232598848164240 So in summary - everything can be discussed in terms of pros/cons, but only with people who have opinions based on arguments and not if it is based on beliefs and trust into others that there are good reasons even though those are not known.

on the contrary. as with BSV adding 100k op return and being filled with CSAM after, means... ...anyone running a node might get prosecuted for it and media will point at bitcoin being csam relay reducing the motivation of ppl to run nodes. The big ones will do it though and have the capacity to filter out unwanted content - causing massive centralization. why do you think this wouldnt happen? and how would you think the PR would help with decentralization?