Almost all of the people on the Bitcoin project have not been anonymous.
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it has been a bit difficult for some of them though
but it's well past too late for them to do anything that is gonna really stop things... like Saylor and others say - bitcoin doesn't really need new features... it needed better signatures for lightning that is the one exception i would name, everything else has been bullshit and unnecessary
the main attack vector for bitcoin is weakening the security with a very clever new feature, the people are not important except for the one that started it, who they can't have
I am aware that it has been difficult.
Their willingness to suffer for it makes it more valuable.
It's a testament.
and there is some risk of us getting problems too because we are building stuff that may be very helpful to maintaining documents that people don't want to be found again
A software project that isn't dangerous to someone or something powerful is just another app.
and "just another app" means it's not doing anything novel
change is dangerous
Yes, let the vibers build the apps.
Keep everything edgy for ourselves.
protocols are where the action is, and relays are where the most important enablers are for making new ones, second, and apps that display the protocol data are third down the line
this myth about dumb relays is really dumb
relays do have to fit the protocol, and that gets really messy sometimes, you should see how much code i had to write to deal with this delete event stuff, literally half of the event save logic is now delete event logic