ossification is a terrifying thing if you’re young and view it as the old guard shutting out a path for you to take to make a mark on the world
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good news: there’s still the timestamp bug 🐛
bitcoin forks will continue forever, the struggles of the mighty are unending
I fully expect a highly regarded fork to exist by 2050
Gold was money for millennia despite no changes to its atomic make up. Maybe some things don’t need individuals to “make their mark” to be the best form of what they are used for. I’d say that tying one’s identity to changing the base layer properties of Bitcoin to one’s personal views of how it should work is incredibly narcissistic and empty.
i'd argue that refusing to take money from people who seem to be doing mostly pointless things is also pretty silly if you want to have the time to hone your skills
i can't work for scammers but i can work for idiots if they respect me
better if my manager isn't one tho haha!
You have a point.
Here's a counterpoint: young people often dream of becoming the best sportsball player ever to play sportsball. Sometimes they're motivated enough to try to achieve it. Often they come up with brilliant new techniques for, uh, sporting the ball. But very few dream of making up different rules for the game of sportsball.
Still, you do for sure have a point.
there are many paths to greatness, fighting to change what came before you is an evergreen one for sure
definitely makes me reconsider revolutionaries and their movements. GK Chesterton was really onto something with his fence parable i think (if you see a fence, do you knock it down and find out why the fence was there, or do you try to find out “why fence” before taking action)
This kind of attitude is probably what terrifies the oldies. Paul Storzc is a great example of a dev who thinks it is all about him and his hobby horse and not sound money with a small attack surface.
Paul Storzc is a very well educated economist; I am not aware of his dev skills
Great point that I often forget. Let's pretend that Paul WAS a developer and didn't need to scrape up capital from uNnAmED enTItiEs to pay other people to develop his hobby horse.
Imagine Paul, bugbear of the repo reviewers, cranking out hundreds of PRs, like they were 80 page whitepapers about hopelessly complex rube-Goldberg fraud proofs.
Seeing liquidity ads through to mainstream use is a mark on the world.