It doesn’t matter how long you been in bitcoin! Even if you are 10 years in here it doesn’t mean that you are the smartest or can’t scam people. My whole point is that it’s everything about NGU and pumping the bags and they don’t give a shit about devs! Devs for them are just as tools unfortunately! Also comparing Saylor and Odell doesn’t make too much sense. Clearly Saylor has more experience in business world than Odell with his tiny fund
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Saylor isnt ONLY about NgU, he just thinks bitcoin is the best store of value in the world. Nobody could ever have predicted that 15 years an open source project would have that property (yes, i know the genesis block!). But its an amazing achievment. Bitcoin is many things to many people. No one person can say they know the ONE use for bitcoin. But 10s of millions of users have chosen it as a store of value. We, the bitcoin community have to respect that, and not rug the users that have put their trust in the community. Bitcoin is not all about NgU, lots of things that can be built on top of it, or around it. Nostr being one case.
Honestly the worst possible thing you can do is centralize the funding of the devs. That creates a monoculture and would be 1 mistake away from compromising the properties that we cherish or coopting bitcoin.