You know, I really respect bcashers for being true remnants
9 years later, even after they had 2 major community splits (BSV and XEC)
even after the lead developer left
even after market has clearly favored small block BTC
while the hashrate is ~1% of Bitcoin’s
they keep going
lots of high profile big blockers dropped their support around 2020 to embrace Ethereum
but there are still devs shipping new features and OP codes that put Bitcoin Core to shame
in spite of having fewer resources.
Never had inflation bugs, the lesser degree of conservativeness didn’t make the dev team sloppy
They even reported the 2018 inflation bug in Bitcoin, didn’t try to exploit it in a time when they could easily become destructive.
Wasabi 2.0 was inspired by Cash Fusion, many of the covenant proposals are iterations of the already available OP_CheckDataSig and the reactivation of OP_CAT.
The big blockers actually did a great job scaling Bitcoin, settling for dynamic 32 MB blocks that can be bigger only if the user pays for it, and ironically setting up much stronger foundations for trust minimized L2s. They can even run a better version of Lightning, with fewer hiccups.
Without any grants from HRF, Jack Dorsey’s companies, MIT, or mainstream financial institutions – which is probably why they were able to ship code instead of trying to find the meaning of the word “consensus”.
Bitcoin Cash did a great job scaling and making Satoshi’s codebase more useful. I wish Core would learn and try to compete instead of “bikeshedding”.
I also wish it wasn’t taboo to look at competing codebases and take the best parts. You know, like actual cypherpunks who don’t need to signal loyalty to a church in order to be taken seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/live/SJkwCaQLRuc?is=nuyi1-oUuuQX5PZw
