Because it’s an attack on Bitcoin.

https://youtu.be/o8QoiK4AZhA?si=CanDpetoyuFFyhzD

Bitcoin doesn’t need any changes. It’s perfect now.

The whole point of #Bitcoin was that its rules are immutable. To take humans out of it. Now a few corrupt developers and influencers are taking down Bitcoin. Crazy. Satoshi-San should have frozen the code. The weakest link of Bitcoin has always been the maintainers. Now they’ve been turned into an attack vector. Unless we freeze the code they will always be the weakest link.

Your article says that you want to use #Bitcoin to transmit data. Thus make Bitcoin something other than money. And to think what’s at stake. The first time humanity had the chance to have scarce money. It blows my mind.

Exactly. Discussing things, coming up with a conclusion and a rule is the opposite of censorship. It’s finding consensus.

Agree. But now we‘re down to 4,000 knots nodes and Luke Dashjr that the survival of Bitcoin hinges on? That‘s a very thin security blanked given what’s at stake. Bitcoin is the only chance we got. And all „they“ have to do is to get to 4,000 people and game over? How do we fix that?

You’re killing Bitcoin

How do we fix it now? Core Devs screwed up the immutability of Bitcoin.

Isn’t is a simple as creating another copy of the software, host it, let people know where to download it and follow good documentation practices? The philosophy for this version would be to treat it as frozen unless there’s some as of yet unknown emergency: the feature is there are no features. Bitcoin is perfect for now, no development required.

What maintenance does it need?

Im trying to hear your side. But all I get are platitudes and ad hominem. I think this sums it up well:

It be very convenient to have an all in one device, node, miner, wallet, Nostr, Bisq — WiFi or SIM. Small and pretty like an iPhone.

The biggest risk to Bitcoin have always been the maintainers, Core devs. They’re a small group of weak people that can easily paid off and influenced. They can change the code and are only one degree removed from a key security component of the network, the nodes. And frankly, there aren’t enough nodes and they are managed quite passively. Core Devs and influencers have been corrupted. It’s an attack vector. The OP_Return issue is really bad. And who knows what else they put in the code? Are you reviewing the entire code of your node? The Core Devs are the biggest risk to Bitcoin, and the bad guys know it. How do we protect us from them?

So, fork?

Debate is always healthy. The fact you think that’s not the case is sus. The fact you think that that saying “debate is always healthy” is, and I quote ODELL: “cancel culture mob behavior”, is also sus. Plus you’re overly defensive, which is thirdly sus.

Quote: “fighting with people over what software they run is mostly unproductive”. -ODELL …. Sus. Debate is healthy.