I'm going to choose my words very carefully. This is not flippant. I have given it a lot of thought and research.The bad actors are not the most active devs but they exercise sufficient clout and political machination to keep everyone else focused on their agenda. I'm only going to name names after I am certain beyond any doubt of their complete guilt and circumstance.
Peter Todd is one of if not the easiest to finger as a bad actor. His commentary, proposals, analysis and inclinations are increasingly and explicitly more and more detrimental to bitcoin. To me it does not matter whether he is actually compromised, blackmailed, or simply greedy, or just full of hubris.
His continuing actions in Bitcoin represent a serious threat to the ecosystem and must be stopped.
I will stop here for now. I don't want to name clowns, as they have their own pain and ultimately are dismissed. I also don't want to name past and former leaders that shoulder the burden of keeping the org functional. For them the situation is more nuanced, but shame on them for not having the balls to say the truth, do the right thing. However, I have been in situations where the choice is excessively difficult and may involve personal issues, dangers and pressures.
But that is just compassion. And you know what? Bitcoin doesn't give a s***. it destroys egos and the best plans of mortals.
Run your own miners, short Mara, support ocean as long as they act in our interest, run knots. Victory is ours.