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Meh. Ad-hominem.
False.
Calling people one one side of an argument a "cult" is simple add hominem.
That's not an argument. Its just a slur.
I see what you mean now.
I thouth you refer to meas ad hominem for saying that I run Knots.
Not at all...
Twas my bad for answering the wrong post.
All good, and yes I agree with you.
We, the people with different opinion are the cult, the trolls, the aggressive ones, the oppressors ... I am sure I have noticed even more "definitions"
I say we simply cherish freedom, peace, sovereignty, property and love and we want Bitcoin to continue be freedom sovereign money it is now.
Luke is signalling his followers to attack me via his clown emojis. That has nothing to do with being on the side of any argument. It's an intimidation tactic to stop me from reviewing the pull request. It's as effective as the filters though.
My observation that he is a cult leader is not based solely on this incident. He's been consistently behaving like one since at least the 2017 UASF days.
I see. So Luke calls you a clown. You call him Jim Jones.
That's a decent picture of how this looks to those of is who have to choose who to trust.
I mean no disrespect.
If you're saying I should have called him out earlier, you're correct.
In fact I probably did back in 2017 on Twitter, because he blocked me for a few years.
* after which he block me
Since then he hasn't attacked me personally, until now, because I reviewed a pull request he hates.
In the mean time Luke has attacked Bitcoin Core on multiple occasions, e.g. creating needless drama around Taproot activation. Meanwhile despite calling Bitcoin Core all sort of bad names, he uses 99.99% of its code for Knots. Although he does occasionally contribute back, and of course has contributed much in the far past, it's not a healthy open source relationship.
Much of the drama he creates also comes across as either blatant self-promotion or his company Ocean (which I like, so that's unfortunate).
So although I understand it doesn't look great when I respond like this, it would have been even worse if I attacked him without provocation. Even though perhaps that would have been more ethical.
Thanks for the nuanced and detailed reply.
I will only point out one thing you talk about... how knots uses 99% of the Bitcoin core code. Well, that seems like a good idea, honestly. I actually feel like Satoshi's premonision about the danger of multiple implementations was wise.
And as much as I don't want to rely on a single developer who seems to see the world in black and white to maintain the version that excludes the things that I think are bad for the network, I might switch to it because of that last part there.
Again, thanks for your thoughtful reply and best wishes on reviewing that pull request. 🙂
