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I value the adversarial mindset of this comment more than the exact details, of course I am no coder so its maybe beyond my place to disagree on taproot, but I have been looking at blocks frequently for the last year or two and it looks to me like it offers a serious upgrade, but maybe its reasonable to say its not revolutionary. I dont care for the yass queen culture built up around bitcoin, we need adversarial thinking; best case scenario is it withers in the face of a more pluralistic culture due to wider adoption, worst case is they are weaponized to damage the credibility of scaling proposals (well, its happened before and I'm extremely confident it will happen again). The only thing that troubles me about fiatjaff is I think it goes to his head a bit much, he's been right about a lot, but even a great system built on a big ego will fail to develop the leadership necessary for when they are gone.

fiatjaf 2y ago

You're saying I have a huge ego and I think I am always right?

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Cyph3rp9nk 2y ago

We need more people like Fiatjaf precisely because they have a critical mentality with their work as well as with the work of others, and without critical analysis there is no progress.

I don't think Fiatjaf is as you describe him, you are quite wrong there.

Another thing is that people are not prepared to listen to uncomfortable truths.

Blake 2y ago

Agreed. I don’t think you’ve experienced a wide enough array of interactions with @fiatjaf.

He’s often direct, yet open to new ideas or being wrong, and challenges both systems and designs (including his).

Geist 2y ago

Not exactly, more accurately I think you are very smart and have a good adversarial mindset, with your ego being a growth area. Again, I'm not exactly qualified to criticize you, and scrolling your feed now I don't really get that impression, time will tell. I wouldn't have ever bothered commenting if you didn't already have my vote of confidence, by the way; I wouldn't recommend anyone wasting their criticisms on someone they don't trust.