The truth always finds a way out. Moral people will always speak up. We just have to listen. #idonttrustcore #bip110 View quoted note →

#bitcoin View quoted note →

Running Bitcoin Knots and BIP 110

I wonder what the lazy ad hominems against Jon will be

Thank God for Good People like Jon Atack!

Hey, have you seen this yet?

BitcoinIsFuture

The same Thiel who is investor in Citrea. The chairman of Palantir.
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Woke infiltration is a recurring pattern that unfortunately affects many open source projects, corporations, and other institutions. Thinking that Bitcoin Core is immune to it is extremely naive. Wokism is antithetical to meritocracy has no place in Bitcoin development. It's particularly interesting how covid accelerated the process with vaccine compliance. Makes me wonder if that was the whole point. View quoted note →

Great video, in retrospect looks obvious but I guess it was this bad at Core, probably more even.

Limit? NWC limit?

Jon Atack with his insight was much needed.

Core is so toxic it need to wither away.

I can’t belive my ears… That this has been going on in a BITCOIN organisation.. So effing toxic.. Especially the «collectivism» shit.. Collectivism kills societies. Core and collectivism needs to wither away. View quoted note →

Great video Matthew. Respect for following your gut and everything you’ve been doing.

The exact moment when Core was first infected with the woke virus was in 2020 when an anonymous dev, TrentZ, with no prior github history in the bitcoin repo (or any activity since then), submitted a PR to change the word "blacklist" in Bitcoin Core test code with the comment "Let's use a more appropriate and clear word and discard the usage of the blacklist. Blocklist is clear and shall make everyone happy." I remember well this caused some controversy at the time, with people pushing back on the absurd wokeness of it all. Many of the same devs currently defending v30, crying about Gloria being "chased out", and making all kinds of excuses for spam, argued in favor of the change. Among their arguments were plenty of elitism and credentialism very similar to what we've heard recently. It was the first time I noticed a shift towards wokeness in Core and I knew then it was just the start. This is how the woke virus infects a project like Core. It slips in as small, innocuous changes. Then the team mindset slowly shifts with constant pressure to conform, purity tests like getting the covid vaccine, strict adherence to ESG/DEI and other insane woke progressive ideologies, slowly pushing out dissenters and forcing everyone else to toe the line. Core has followed the woke playbook to the letter. Six years later, Core is completely controlled by this mentality. Unfortunately there is no way to undo this damage. Just like bitcoin doesn't seek to change the system but rather replace it, we need to replace Core. Spam, shiticoins, and wokeness are not welcome in Bitcoin.

GitHub

test: change blacklist to blocklist by TrentZ · Pull Request #19227 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Let's use a more appropriate and clear word and discard the usage of the blacklist. Blocklist is clear and shall make everyone happy.

Now this:

@ODELL where you at bro 😂 crickets

The Hard Lesson Satoshi didn't just build a protocol. He built a mechanism where no one—not even the most influential developers—gets the final word. Core can merge whatever they want. They can add spam, remove limits, change policies. But they can't force anyone to run it. And that's the difference between permissioned systems and Bitcoin. The carnival can build new rides. You just don't have to buy a ticket. View quoted note →

If you can manage to think outside of false dichotomies, you will realize this has nothing to do with bip110. https://rumble.com/v75tyny-bitcoin-code-governance-jon-atack-plan-forum.html

Try watching the video

That name isn't doing him any favors here.

YouTube link for convenience:

So?

Very interesting insights into how the Core development process has changed. 👀 View quoted note →

If you still support Core, you are a BINO and no different than an altcoiner. Especially you influencers, you will lose your audience and not recover. I am not stoked with BIP-110 but it's better and a solution rather than following the terrible default Bitcoin Core. Terrible communicators, coders, vision, execution, people. The opposite of Satoshi. Look at all the people who support Knots over Core, the best of the best, including Szabo and Booth. We fight. View quoted note →

Always landing on the fact that we need 3/4+ implementations with equal share Anyway @Jameson Lopp you still haven't commented on this post by Kratter, are you ok? I'm getting worried

Raze Core to the ground. View quoted note →

What a surprise... ." But but...Bitcoin is a decentralized open source project with many contributers." STFU. There is no such thing as a decentralized project, there is always people with commit permissions and there is always social influence at play. Always! It involves people deciding! It's the same as saying the Central Banks are decentralized! If some bitcoin "personality" comes at you with this, he's either not honest or intellectually impaired. Decentralization comes from the fact that you can run a node and choose wich implementation you run.