"Core" has become a center of lobbying and activism, and has outlived it's usefulness as a code repository. Archiving Core would be best for everyone, whether you're for more changes, or for ossification. A nack from the Core repository today is perceived as a veto, causing new ideas to be under-explored or bikeshed. Simultaneously, Core's legacy puts it in a position upstream of blind downloads and a lack of discernment, making the politburo governing this repository a target for scammers and attackers. Every day the Core repo is not archived and disbanded is an attack on Bitcoin. Scatter into the wind smaller forks that compete on merit, and evict the squatters of Bitcoin's legacy.

Bitcoin's "scaling" limitations are not a function of it's throughput, but rather how many people or organizations will actually be able to afford the 5-6 digits worth of sats needed to not have to trust anybody.

If you look at all the centralized fake L2 scams on Ethereum, and the money "locked" in those scams, you'll begin to understand all the "covenants" astroturf There's no technical justification for them, just the same combination of greed and stupidity that keeps Ethereum around

The forker astroturf is back, and the timing is not a coincidence These ego-centric crusaders can't accept that Bitcoin doesn't need them and their fragile ETH-lite scripting delusions are nonsense Bitcoin is just fine and they're spiteful about it

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Relays are no different than any other hosting service in terms of incentives, they're a CDN for notes. Some hosting services cater to illegal content, like seedbox services for torrents. Others, like business tier S3 with a terms of service, do not. The only difference vs. traditional hosts is that Nostr uses keys/signatures so that data is verifiable and therefore can be easily distributed across redundant hosts (exactly what torrents do by using redundant trackers with hashes to ID files). Unlike torrents though, there's a reputational lever available in Nostr because of author keys. This will allow it to become more email-like, where servers generally drop everything that doesn't pass some checks. Email and traditional file hosting is enured to legacy DNS/IP4 limitations, and therefore not as simple to have provider redundancy, which makes service offerings less commoditized than is possible with Nostr relays. So, while Nostr is an improvement over legacy hosting services in terms of censorship-resistance, there's no magic that makes it a different animal in terms of incentives or how it evolves service hygiene.