You're missing the point.
The point is : now we have an extra hypothesis as to why some of the devs and "influencers" we're pushing for the crazy v30.
It's not about their personal disgusting depravity, it's about the code. Their personal disgusting depravity is relevant to the extent that it's part of the reason behind the push for the crazy code.
Some like to say that Bitcoin is only software. But it's more than that. It's a social phenomenon. The software itself means nothing unless people adopt it and use it. So the social aspects are relevant.
v30 is a socially suicidal change to Bitcoin. The fact that some of those who pushed for those changes are part of a very small minority of depraved maniacs helps explain why they might not even *see* why it's socially suicidal. They're just not normal.
All that means that, going forward, we must be even more cautious about anything they promote.
That's why the Epstein scandal is relevant concerning those devs and influencers.
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Yes I agree, up until last year, core was an attack vector that had not yet been explored.
My reasoning, simply when I first started running a node. I went straight to Bitcoincore.org and downloaded the latest version. This can no longer be the default action of a new node runner. Instead they must think critically about their values and what they would like to support