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core devs now have to:

- deal with legal threats

- deal with threats from social media brigades run by 2023-era "bitcoin maxi" influencers

- soul crushing and time consuming rebasing and code review

- have deep knowledge of complex cryptographic protocols, engineering and economics

who would want to work on bitcoin at this point? what's the point? to defend the network just to be attacked by lawers and angry mobs?
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pleb_world 4mo ago

Maybe they should just stop working on it.. Any serious security threat will be patched by someone who gives a shit. Any other change is superfluous and unnecessary and should be left alone.

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marcan0 4mo ago

Have you ever used a piece of abandoned software?

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pleb_world 4mo ago

Bitcoin wont be “abandoned software” anytime soon. As long as it’s worth something it’ll be worth someone’s time to fix critical bugs. The last 10+ years there haven’t been any meaningful changes to core that were completely necessary (segwit / taproot were not necessary). If there a major disincentive for people to tinker I think that is a very good thing.