My question is why are there only two options? Why isn't there a slew of node interfaces to choose from? Core's censorship seems like it was inevitable when a shit ton of devs ended up under the same roof. I get wanting to be with the cool kids but it's antithetical to bitcoin's mission for decentralization. Fuckin of course they've started commandeering the conversation.
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Such a great question. It might have something to do with how deep censorship was for engineers… walled garden on twitter. Moderation on Reddit. Deplatformed on YouTube. I remember A LOT of builders between 2014 and 2017 and poof gone
If they were real ones, that wouldn't have stopped them from building but I get it-I too do not fend well, and will often find another project, when politics get involved. Sounds like a bunch of cases of people who probably tried to go fast alone, and didn't make it far without others.
Vires in Numeris