I'm not a Bitcoin dev, but I've built software tools for people and can code. Everyone knows that the systems like these always needs tweaks, vulnerability fixes, etc. Maybe I'm misreading, but my read is that responsible development should kind of follow a similar mantra to "first, do no harm".
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I too find it strange that people here are mischaracterizing what Saylor is saying and seem to prefer personal attacks rather than discussing the issues.
“Saylor hates devs!”
“Saylor is a spook!”
“You’re a Saylor shill!”
“Saylor wants to break bitcoin!”
🙄
It’s like I fell into bitcoin middle school. I’m hoping we can start thinking critically again.
I didn't realize this was directed at Saylor specifically. I recall him talking about Bitcoin development and I didn't think was position was unreasonable - I interpreted his position as one of advocating for a cautious approach to development.
THIS. The discussion must be about ideas, not people. Plus, it's very funny that now bitcoiners feel so annoyed because someone thinks about his own business and interests.
I would understand these attacks better if Saylor was trying to get some personal business advantage.
Based on my read of the situation, Saylor just doesn’t want devs to screw up the base protocol. ODELL implied that funding was offered but with “strings attached”.
That apparently was unacceptable to these folks on nostr so hence the personal attacks and chaos that polarized and set the community against each other.
Exactly, in Corporate America the really bad outsourced IT resources (for decades it was India) were held to a totally different quality standard.
My entire career I'd lie in bed awake hoping I didn't break something with my latest patch, upgrade, etc. These guys were paid to essentially break things then hand the breaks to another outsourced "Production Support" group under the same umbrella.
Huge money to be made in prolonging the solution.
These guys just put in garbage and wouldn't fix things most of the time and break way more than they fixed.
We called it, "Fix Something, Break Something."
I am all for giving money to the right projects and people. That detail needs to be flushed out is all, down to the names and those individuals motivation to add to Bitcoin.
Are they pushing the BIP to benefit for themselves from: Ordinals/Inscriptions/Stamps/Ruins?/