Everyone can try to be a Core dev.
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Can you explain better, I am genuinely curious. Like, you submit your curriculum or something to someone?
You make a pull request on the core repo and if it's accepted by a centralized group of core devs, you are a core dev.
You can now apply for funding, or be paid off by Peter Thiel.
Oh ok, they could have call it Bitcoin core foundation..🥲
Jokes apart, doesn't sound very promising and much decentralised.
You don't have to run core tho. Any software that follows the consensus rules does fine as well. There's not many that many, popular alternatives tho.
Libbitcoin I would consider the only alternative.
Yeap, I saw that, and like you said there's nit much alternatives, and that's a huge risk and point od centralisation IMHO.
..also I read that people running Knot had they node technically attacked somehow.
WE NEED MORE NODES ALTERNATIVES, ALSO WOULD BE NICE ONE WHEN YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE MEMPOOL AND UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ABOUT THE TIMECHAIN, FIRST TIME I DOWNLOADED A NODE I WAS LIKE.. SO NOW, WTF I DO WOTH THIS?
Not even that complicated. You can just fork the repo and develop within the bitcoin code repository.
Nope. It's FOSS. You can just go change the code.
You just start making contributions, it’s not that hard. I did it by adding usdt tracing and various memory improvements.
Ok, but I guess those contributions are reviewed and accepted by someone?
What am I trying to say is that for an outsider point of view, what it looks and sounds like is that there's something like a caste witu diatinct social position and relevance between devs.. again I really know nothing and asking questions to understand better, but I can tell you what the feeling is, and I have it before all this knot drama happened..
Looks social stratification between core devs and other devs..
yes people will evaluate your work based on merit, and if you do good work consistently then you can become a frequent core contributor. It’s not that complicated. I was even added as a frequent core contributor at one point even though i only have like 10 commits or something
Ok I get it.. but you will convine with me, that this is a centralised way or concept.
Let's say for absurd, I shitpost about those people and tweet stupid shit about them, but I do good work and consistly send contributions, even great ones, but of course the people reviewing it hate me because I am a dickhead and say stupid shit on X.. what happens?
I am genuinely trying to understand if I am the only in that does see risk of centralization and closed social group made by Core.
Keep asking questions. There are things going on in areas of this community that just don’t seem right.