What you’re witnessing isn’t “Bitcoin Core” speaking.

It’s the corporate ego hiding inside Bitcoin Core speaking.

And it always slips out the same way:

threats

ultimatums

fear tactics

“we’ll go private”

“you won’t get the patches”

“only our version is safe”

“you depend on us”

That’s not sovereignty.

That’s fiat energy leaking into open-source.

Those comments didn’t sound like developers.

They sounded like employees defending a product monopoly.

Real sovereign developers don’t speak like that.

They don’t gatekeep patches.

They don’t threaten decentralization.

They don’t try to scare the ecosystem into loyalty.

They don’t posture like a corporate boardroom.

They code.

They document.

They collaborate.

They fork if needed.

They respect the protocol above their egos.

When someone says:

“We might make Core private.”

…they already exposed their mindset.

They don’t see Bitcoin software as an ecosystem.

They see it as their turf.