Snakes who spent years trying to destroy Bitcoin should stay in their holes rather than trying to emerge and claim they were the savior all along.

And that’s 100k

Decentralization is hard. Everything sucks. View quoted note →

This is much better phrased than I can. I’m really, really happy that lots of people are doing *research* into how and what kind of covenants get us the best outcome, but that doesn’t mean we need to rush into anything, maybe the opposite. View quoted note →

I responded on Twitter too, but this is such a strange rant to me. Bitcoin Core (contributor)’s current push for better mempool policy is *directly* related to multi-party UTXO ownership and scaling. It specifically substantially improves lighting in practice today, and will certainly be required for any future scaling technologies. In the mean time, lots of folks (like James) continue to do research into how to scale Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies generally). There’s no reason to care if that happens from Bitcoin Core contributors or others, and we’re still really far from having any particularly good ideas on this front. As that research continues, there’s no reason for concrete software towards short-term soft-forks. View quoted note →