Maybe they should … and we wouldn’t have insane meltdowns …

I’m a nuclear engineer. Sometimes the best ideas come from contractors who have real world experience. We are all plebs including the devs.

Because sometimes you have to look outside your fucking box. Well said.

You right, they should copy the Core playbook and just nuke any city they want.

You take ideas from non developers all of the time.

You mean the deplorable public? 😂 What a conceited ass.

A flawed analogy. Node runners are not the general public, although it is a spectrum, so more like sub-station operator or lineman. Still a flawed analogy… The key part is not the engineering (I’m tired of repeating this). It’s more like a government which was previously serving the public but then began to serve corporate interests. People hate that shit.

You're not nuclear engineers, regardless of how smart you think you are. The only thing you're nuking is your own credibility.

I think the current devs should be far more humble. It's only once in a century -- or maybe ten centuries -- that a discovery like Bitcoin is made. It should be approached with a reverence compared to which mere conservatism would look like libertine excess. The vibes I'm getting from Core and their sycophants is "we are anarchic geniuses, you know nothing compared to us, only we 'know what bitcoin is'; we've got a lot of things we want to try -- wheee! -- so just shut up, stop spoiling our fun, and enjoy the anarchy."

First, flawed analogy. A nuclear plant is a centralized, permissioned entity. Bitcoin's governance (by design) is social consensus, not a dictatorship of engineers. The engineers serve the users, not the other way around. Without adoption and buy-in from the public, the most elegant code is just a failed project. #bitcoin #knots View quoted note →

probably best middle ground would be leave the default and give users ability to change if they want

This needs a good strawman! Here you go! Have you heard of central bank ? They believe they need to control the money, they think they are smarter than the market.

How did you become infected with this arrogance?