"Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years." -Satoshi Nakamoto

The biggest loser today is Bitcoin Core. Any hope for salvaging it as an independent open source project is dead. Its capture by shitcoiners, suits, miners, and the woke dei dev class is complete.

The blocksize wars were a win for plebs against the suits and miners. The spam wars were a win for suits and miners and core devs over plebs. Bitcoin is now on the inevitable path towards Todd's publicly stated goal of tail emissions or demurrage, and the freezing of Satoshi's coins in the name of quantum FUD. The 21M fixed supply will eventually be broken and the same Core devs and their influencer suck-ups celebrating today will be cheering for it. Anyone who's happy that Bitcoin is now completely controlled by miners, suits, and the likes of Todd and Lopp is truly retarded. Today proved that plebs have no power which means a fundamental part of Bitcoin's value proposition has failed, and that is a tragedy.

Core wasn't compromised in a day. View quoted note →

The battle over the 21M fixed supply is coming. OP_RETURN was just the opening act. Get ready for your favorite core dev to tell you it's a complex technical issue only expert devs can understand. View quoted note →