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Odell, you used to be a hero to me in the Bitcoin community. The way you championed privacy and freedom tech (e-cash, CoinJoin, Mutiny Wallet, PayJoin etc) was inspiring. Your strong advocacy for freedom and your bold stance against KYC were important. You told those privacy-hating governments to go f© themselves. I loved that!

You seemed like a true freedom fighter. Now you don't take a clear stance in an important debate. It seems like you've adopted a more non-aggressive approach, avoiding clear expressions of your opinions and steering away from contentious issues. I first noticed this change in your stance regarding Saylor and open source development. Now I see you being quiet about the censorship and power grab by certain Core developers.

I hope I'm wrong. But it’s disappointing and disheartening to say the least.

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Fuck Core v30 and Fuck Core.

Do you even listen to Optech Review Pod...? Do you even look at the blockchain. A huge OpReturn ~4MB was mined early in the year.. and none since that I'm aware of (most likely becuase it is cheaper to add data in other ways, sadly also more harmful to the network.. Would be FARR better if they were using OpReturn.. And no, I don't think we should be sensoring, our sensorship resistant money!

Yep, it’s not about the change, it’s about the fact that clearly there is some governance issue with core

Yep, that's the main reason to switch to Knots, in addition to its respect for user choice.

You’re either new or retard or both if you think knots vs core matters. Congratulations on being a dumb fuck.

I'm going to remember this one for later.

Please do. If I end up being the retarded one I’ll gladly eat a slice of humble pie.

I'll eat mine now. I could be wrong already. I am a offgrid solar bitcoin miner. I know what it looks like to me. Never been called stuoid by a person who knkws me. And I don't understand why people call others names when having different POV. Why are we so obsessed with being right or wrong. We all can see it differently. Not sure if we will ever have consensus on who was right or wrong. Maybe. I am running knots because it makes more sense to me. Not sure what that makes me retarded.

It matters for the ego; which is as good of reason as any

He’s a VC now. Things change when you sell out.

This is why we shouldn't have heros. Good sign we are still growing though.

Indeed he's choosing not to think it through and have a real stance. Even his refusal to commit to Knots is not based on reason, just propaganda.

Sadge indeed

I think you're wrong. Even if you're right, it doesn't really matter. Nobody's perfect. Educate, don't blame. Start up a podcast. Its just not right to turn on someone the moment they have a different opinion or are not thinking through it on your schedule.

VIRTUAL ZAP! ⚡️⚡️⚡️(tried twice..."unable to zap")

in hindsight my position on saylor was probably too aggressive, half of bitcoin twitter hates me for that

my position on this issue has been clear and transparent, discussed at length on both my shows and nostr for over a year

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Maybe you should have posted that in ALL CAPS?

most people cannot handle the caps

too provocative

People need to adjust to the new normal in the Post Caps era.

there was a conference at the hotel i was staying at yesterday, topic was the new normal

this must have been what they were discussing

It is a proper and conservative stance. One that carries respect. I was running Satoshi v. 27.0/ for almost two years and it worked just fine. I now run knots but understand hesitance on switching with only one dev. I am a fan of node configurability and I believe my nodes resources should be spent on relaying legitimate transactions, not spam that happened to have a cryptographic signature.

Wish I could zap!

Slay your heroes