I dunno who needs to hear this but seeing a professional (American) football game in person is strictly worse than on TV. The games are made for TV. Do you know what happens in the stadium for the nearly 50% of the time that they’re showing commercials? Absolutely fucking nothing. Oh you have a box? Cool, I’d rather be at a bar watching it on TV.
Matt Corallo
matt@bitcoin.ninja
npub185h9...wrdp
10th known contributor to Bitcoin Core. Now Full-Time Open-Source Bitcoin+Lightning Projects at Spiral (Part of Block).
It’s impressive how well LLMs demonstrate the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
This. Build the best Bitcoin to get more normal sane people to use Bitcoin and drown out the crazies.
That and don’t bother engaging on social media. Sorry to the crazies you’re just never gonna get to interact with any Bitcoin dev at this point - people gotta protect their time.
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And so Bitcoin loses yet another person who invested nearly a decade learning its intricacies so that they can meaningfully contribute. At this rate we’re not gonna have anyone left who’s qualified working on Bitcoin. Wonder how much people will love it when the chain randomly splits because of poorly-maintained code.
At least lightning security was improved 10x in the interim, I suppose.

GitHub
drop my key from trusted-keys by glozow · Pull Request #34517 · bitcoin/bitcoin
As planned!
Also bump trusted-git-root to 88a7294, which is the last merge signed with this key.
EDIT: I didn’t plan to write a "statement&q...
Man it’s disappointing to, yet again, watch bitcoiners eat each other alive and drive great people away. Bitcoin is so much worse off for it, we could have so much more…