I'd love a good and honest debate without all the empty rhetoric.
For now I'm in the camp that none of these changes were necessary and everyone is pushing their own personal agendas.
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Bitcoin fixes this?
I just found a great video you might be interested in. This guy does an excellent job of digging into the technical details and then the larger issue, the toxicity of the debate. I highly recommend it. Also, watch it and then read the comments and notice that despite his clear attempt to be as impartial as seems possible, he gets flamed by tribal dimwits that just want to cheer for their own team, villify their opposition while dismissing logic and reason.
The tribalism is the biggest problem.
And both sides are guilty.
It makes it more difficult to separate the facts from the BS. It reduces the trust factor significantly.