"If I wanted to destroy bitcoin I would just fund infinite developers who are very talented and tell them to make it better." - Michael Saylor on op_return I think he is not completely wrong, there is a risk. A risk of distraction, a risk of wanting to work on cool stuff because they are exciting, etc. those risks exist. BUT, in my opinion, what Michael Saylor actually thinks is closer to this: “If I wanted to destroy Bitcoin I would just scare people so that no one touches it and address the remaining issues and challenges that prevent Bitcoin to truly become P2P cash at the planet scale. It will make it easier for us to capture it and just hammer the NGU and digital gold narratives. Fuck their cypherpunk values and their hope of freedom.” Who benefit the most from scaring people from ever touching Bitcoin again to try to improve it and fulfill its promise ? I think that considering Bitcoin final now is the biggest gift to governments or any powerful adversarial forces that would want to capture Bitcoin or prevent it from being adopted widely as money, and not just as digital gold. Complacency also can kill Bitcoin. Job is not finished. The real fight has barely started.

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RockoCocko's avatar
RockoCocko 3 months ago
I mean maybe a couple of BIP are worth our time for sure but don't fuck with it too much. 😅
Legitimate debate between not meddling to “make it better” and not meddling to freeze it in place. Freezing it is itself a kind of meddling.
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Baerson 3 months ago
Core devs also do. You forgot core devs.
what shocked me big time about this op_return is the devs reason for blast it to 100KB and not going in smaller incremental steps, namely "we don't want to have this convo again in the indeterminate future and having to waste any more time talking/working on this". Doesn't sound like a cautious approach to me.....
There should be a rule where you can only speak about bitcoin only after you transact bitcoin at least once. Maybe another rule where you can only speak about bitcoin if you actually own bitcoin and not infinte bitcoin IOUs.
Yea, the answer to op_return isn't to ossify. It's to focus on improvements rather than stupid changes to placate scammers. OP_CTV and OP_CSFS are both in that space.
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Junghwan 3 months ago
The point is simple. Filter works well and Bitcoin Core 30 smells disgusting. Run Knots!