With Saylor setting up the be the richest person in human history, will he ever donate a sat of it to struggling and dwindling bitcoin devs that made it possible? Nah, that’s too much to ask. 
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Do the Devs have enough bitcoin? There doesn't need any more Dev work on bitcoin either. It works fine as it is.
If only @Bitcoin Magazine didn’t throttle articles that comment on this….. what does shinobi say? “sorry for the delay, I’ll publish it later this week”, both in July and this last week
The ui is dogshit and needs tons of work, are you kidding? Have you ever used bitcoin core? There are tons of confusing things, bugs and foot guns with the api as well. I have worked on a few of them.
Why do you assume devs have lots of bitcoin?
I said this a few days ago here (about does he donate anything, ever, besides his “gift” of just stacking sats, and several people said “he has the Saylor academy for bitcoin education”
Bitch I’m saying donate sats to devs and like starving children around the world boasting about your riches DAILY. The world thinks Bitcoiners are assholes, let’s prove them wrong.
Time will tell
We don't need any more code to bloat bitcoin. Have the Devs not been stacking for a while? I never said they had lots, but why do they suddenly need charity?
Yeah, 1 sat is too much to ask. Maybe if those devs stop being lazy and add more decimal places they can ask for 1 microsat.
Yeah if all devs stopped working on maintaining it, who will be around when something breaks and then people lose faith. Bitcoin is not magic, it’s like any other software system. It keeps working well because people are maintaining it.
Saylor said he would zap me as soon as I posted this and he didn't. I retract it. What a cheapskate.
I like how the bear strawman still lives in the hyperbitcoinized world
I've said it before. I'm not a Saylor fan.
Year 2106 timestamp bug requires a hardfork to fix. Just one bug. Many other known potential exploits and likely even more unknown yet to come.
I know many devs don't have spare cash to stack, and they also see all the flaws and potential failure points in Bitcoin, so didn't have the confidence that it was going to succeed as it has.
LOL
Lots of devs haven't even been around that long.
Bitcoin hasn't increased in value enough in the past few years to get rich without insanely risky leverage strategies.
I didn't know there was a bug.
<everything works great>
"What do we even pay you nerds to do? Everything is working just fine"
<stuff breaks>
"What do we even pay you nerds to do? Everything is broken"
Core has been in the process of redesign for a while. I’m not sure what the status of that is though.
pretty much
I think i tested it like 4 years+ ago
This is the shittiest take I think I've ever seen on this topic!
Who the fuck is "we" and how'd they pick you as the voice?
You want bitcoin devs to pay themselves for work today with their own unrealized savings account gains? How about the new 16 year old coming in today, that we need tomorrow? Fuck that noise "Elizabeth"..
Devs are building and maintaining "the new financial roads" on their own dime - yes those running businesses that use the roads should kick down to those bad ass, self sacrificing, Mo Fos!
There are ALWAYS bugs....
Didn't the ETFs say they would fund open source with some of their fees they collect? Did that ever happen or was it just yapping?
Good question
Something about this sentiment bugs me. Who are we to judge Saylor for what he chooses to do or not do with his money? And how do we know all the things he's doing without telling us? It seems a bit on the entitled side to me.
Forgive my back of the napkin math but with 4.2 bn AUM and 0.20% fees, that's got to account to a couple of million right?
What work have they done today? The code doesn't need any changes.
I did a quick search van eck also said they would donate %5
That's over 80 years away, better I'd they don't try to fix something that isn't broke imo.
Wrong
Ok
Point taken!
at least he never zapped a single note on Nostr, that's weird enough. And repeatedly posting AI pics about bitcoin on a bitcoin based social protocol seems like a lazy and arragant act
He can do whatever he wants with it, i don’t give a shit. Just an observation and helps me build a better model of him. It would be such an obvious thing if I was in his position, it doesn’t make sense to me.
since he owns zero bitcoin at the moment, i don´t know why he will be the richest person 🤷♂️
Paper bitcoin rich
Whatever happened to “bitcoin is for enemies?” Are you going to whine for tax funding when the USG, PRC, etc pile in?
He's not the great entrepreneur in my opinion because he hasn't built something out of this world. Despite Elons view on bitcoin, he is a much better and more successful entrepreneur
Can appreciate the opinion here. In my opinion, freedom money gives you the “freedom” to do whatever you want to do with it. For all we know, Saylor could be donating some of it without “advertising it” per se? What’s the right amount to donate and to who? Why would we assume that he is not donating? Ultimately it’s his call to do whatever he wishes with his freedom money, nobody else is to decide or judge what he does with his freedom money
When y'all understand that simply reducing active supply increases the value of everyone's holdings on the margins, then technically just indefinitely holding is indirectly "donating" value to every other holder. He doesn't need to donate to you directly to help you, he just needs to buy and hold like everyone else.
This is pocket watching at its finest. How are you if he’s donated to devs or not? What if he has donated anonymously?
Focus on your own bags.