The thing that worries me most is the banning of Mechanic from the forum (that rightly pointed out a conflict of interest).
How do you justify this behaviour from btc core?
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I don't agree with it but that's the thing, the way the issue has been handled by Core is worse than the issue itself. However Bitcoin Mechanic was stirring up stuff two years ago and is coming across as a bit of a drama queen. He shouldn't have been banned though.
I agree with you that the way the issue has been managed is worse than the issue itself, that is also my point of focus.
If this is the way devs deal with issues and opposing voices it’s worrying as fuck
I imagine many of the Core developers don't agree with the banning but unless I'm mistaken Knots has just one developer and that's Luke and Luke has very strong (& some extremely odd) opinions. I've had a back & forth with him on Twitter some years ago (not about bitcoin) and he was willing to engage & he didn't get in a huff & block me so that's good but a one man development team might be viewed as an autocracy. 🤷♂️
Totally agree that a one-man dev team is an autocracy, and don’t love the idea of it, but core is simply forcing many people to switch to knots.
More than being about knots being better, is about it being less worse than core (which is acting in a horrible way which is obvious to everyone, it is obvious that there is no consensus in this issue so why keep forcing it?). Hopefully they’ll get their shit together