Now we are at the stage where anything goes against Luke, even leaking his private conversations. A Bitcoiner should defend privacy above all else, even above Bitcoin. If you don't understand this, leave the world of crypto-anarchism; you are just a servant of the state and its malpractice. Honestly, for years I thought Bitcoiners had critical thinking skills and knew how to discern “truth” from “lies,” but I see that either we've gone mainstream or it's just full of assholes like real life. Again, I repeat, it doesn't matter what you think of Luke or even what Luke does, the problem isn't there. The problem is Core and its policies, its new direction. The problem is that Core is corrupt. These things were already suspected with Taproot, which was promoted by developers with ties to mining. Now we see the results, and the same thing is going to happen with this. Forget everything and focus only on what you see, not on what you are told. It is becoming increasingly expensive to run a node. How expensive will it be to run a node with Core's new policies? Does this favor decentralization? Bitcoin needs consensus, and consensus cannot be achieved with just one reference implementation. We need more implementations, and it could be Knots or any other that emerges that respects the consensus. That's all there is to it. If you get caught up in Luke's debate, you're missing the point. They point to the moon, and you look at the finger. View quoted note →