love it or hate it: jack dorsey sponsoring luke’s pool was the biggest accelerationist act of the decade in terms of moving the chess board forward for bitcoin protocol design around tx relay and block construction
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competition is good for an ecosystem but miserable to live/build through. just remember the design goals were aiming for: open markets, freedom to transact and anyone can compete to serve
Why would competition be miserable to live through? Build through?
Not sure, maybe this: https://xkcd.com/927/
One of the best ways to move things forward is put something out there that you KNOW is wrong, and then stand back and let others tell you how its wrong (usually followed by showing you). A good tactic when things stagnate. People LOVE to tell others how wrong they are.
This is good for StratumV2. Will push thibgs forward.
There have always been, and always will be, bad actors in the bitcoin space. Makes us stronger!
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