Bitcoin Core needs a time out.
The developers may be technically brilliant, but they have lost ground with the broader community and the many people who have entrusted their life savings to Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is money. Spam has no place on the timechain.
Bitcoin Core must change course
Nah, they are doing the right thing. Bitcoin should not have any input from people who don’t understand the system or who haven’t put in the work. It’s a meritocracy not a democracy.
Calling Bitcoin a ‘meritocracy’ is just a polite way of saying a handful of insiders get to decide the rules. That’s not what Bitcoin was built for. It’s supposed to be decentralized, permissionless, and accountable to everyone who uses it. It is not a gated club where only the self-appointed elite have a voice. If Core keeps drifting toward technocratic capture, it betrays the very ethos that made Bitcoin matter in the first place.
I personally feel more comfortable knowing its run by people who know what they are doing, vs by people who don’t understand the basics of bitcoin and run by social media mobs.
This is how every shitcoin started and look how that played out.
but by all means tweak relay parameters that don’t do anything all you want.
Core already opened the floodgates by allowing arbitrary datacarrier outputs. That wasn’t Bitcoin that was a concession that turned the timechain into a playground for spam. Don’t pretend this is about ‘social media mobs’ vs. experts. It’s about Core drifting from the protocol’s purpose. Bitcoin is money, not a data-storage experiment.
If you're so worried about a "handful of insiders" / "gated club" / "self-appointed elire" deciding the rules, why do you run Knots where it's just Luke who decides? 🤔
Empty rhetoric
