Divide and conquer/rule.
That's older than Christianity. Thing with this is that you don't really have to divide people as divisions exist naturally.
What you do with it is making divisions bigger so people don't work together against you.
I believe to some extend this have been happening in this space for a while.
Look at example where Knots nodes (this is same network!!!) have been attacked by a guy working for mining company Mara. When Knots nodes are attacked, its fucking obvious that other side did that as they are in a fight. Is it?
As we remember from blocksize war miners are easily coerced or collaborate with state from beginning. There have been honest pools which stood on bitcoin side of that conflict about to whom Bitcoin belongs and who will dictate its terms, people who use it or legal entities bowing down to same criminal organisations.
Other thing is death threats, of course if two sides are fighting its fucking obvious that other side did sent that threats. Do we really believe that bad actors will waste such an opportunity to cripple Bitcoin development? Do we really believe that bad actors who have opposite financial incentives will not attack Bitcoin and send death threats so it looks like Bitcoiner did it?
When they do those things, they want Bitcoiners fighting each other. They want you to waste time and energy and worsen your relations. They want to keep Bitcoin stagnant, not developing to its rightful place as most commonly used currency.
Looking at what's going on in this world, they need a lot of that printed $hit to pay for bombs which they will drop on mostly innocent people in their petty power struggles.
If enemy is using this tactics it means that Bitcoiners have to stick to each other (didn't I tell you that before I was gone right after blocksize war?) as every attack have a counter move against it. Divide - unite.
In past there have been one team, Bitcoin core, Luke was in it and IMO he was one of most relevant people in it. At that time we all (developers and users) defended bitcoin and we did that! We fucking won against biggest organisations and big businesses! We achieved that only because we were working together for benefit of all humanity.
Another thing this attack is showing us, they care to pull this type of attack.
Clearly there are fields of Bitcoin development that they don't want you to work on. Bad actors rather see you wasting your time and energy rather than work on fungibility in Bitcoin.
I believe that this is field they are mostly concerned with.
Will we let this happen to Bitcoin or will we finally defend it and move onward?
This is not a time to fight over +10b or -10b of DEFAULT limit of OP_RETURN, this is only a default not a consensus rule!!!
This is time to finally set it in place and move forward. At this stage its not really so relevant where exactly it will be as we're doing exactly what bad actors want. This goes to both "sides".
Bitcoin already have lost enough of developer time, again both sides.
We can change that default in future.
Now here's the deal Knots "side" wants 83b as there are concerns about someone inserting ugly picture. I agree that this is concern I share.
You won't fit that picture in 150b right?
Core probably have problems with being pushed by "plebs" which mostly doesn't really understand Bitcoin, not like them.
I have it same way, I hate being pushed or manipulated but this matter is not a personal thing. We need to be moving forward not stagnate in one endless fight against each other.
They want us occupied and chasing own tails, they want us to lose our time. Let's show them once again that noone but Bitcoin wins. Let's make that happen together.
