Now that the inscriptions people are attracting a lot of talented developers, I’m noticing something that I haven’t felt in YEARS.

Back in 2013 era I would never feel comfortable wading into the tech conversation of Bitcoin development.

After the blocksize wars, it became easier to understand the conversation around bitcoin consensus.

Now that the inscriptions people are pushing, in a somewhat adversarial way, ideas like mempool filtering, op_ctv, op_cat, running nodes to inscribe, etc — I feel way less comfortable having an opinion.

For the first time in YEARS, it feels like the shadowy super coders are the participants in the battlefield of ideas pushing the conversation forward, rather than the philosophical intellectuals and monetary maximalists.