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The degree to which non-technical people weigh in on very technical topics in Bitcoin has always surprised me.

It's not like people go around getting pissy with brain surgeons about the merits of a new procedure, or start yelling at particle physicists about the proper way to aim a neutrino...

What makes these folks think that they have any idea about the tradeoffs inherent in complex crypto-systems?

I think more devs (especially the bitcoin core devs) would do well to simply ignore the noise, most of the time. Only give your valuable time to people who have shown the proof of work and bring intellectual honesty to the conversation.

ARVIN 8mo ago

The analogy regarding brain surgeons and particle physicists doesn’t quite fit. The difference in this case is that bitcoin has direct stakeholders, so while you can certainly ignore the stakeholders because they don’t/cant/wont do this/that, you can’t expect for the stakeholders to ignore you.

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JeffG 8mo ago

My point is that the stakeholder's opinions don't count for anything if they are not grounded in reality. It'd be like people yelling that the sky is yellow. Should we take them seriously and give them time? No, we shouldn't.

ARVIN 8mo ago

🤝 POV and opinions grounded in reality are important for productive dialogue. I see very unhelpful tit for tat drowning out the sensible conversations around this.

JeffG 8mo ago

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