Think about it differently: if one of the largest owners of btc , a publicly traded company, were known to openly fund devs, how would that look to the sec? They would need to show they do not materially control btc
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I don't give a fuck if funds it or not. He stopped other parties from funding it. There's no excuse.
It's clear he wants development to die, bitcoin to ossify so that he can have his financial compliant captured asset, or as he calls it "digital property".