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Your message has been “just don’t update” “it’s not a big deal”

So it’s not important to replace people at the Bitcoin core or establish a new reference team for Bitcoin updates.

What if Bitcoin needs updates in future? Do we let shitcoiners run Bitcoin core ?

My message has always been “I do not care what node implementation you run, and you don’t have to update it.” Put another way, “if you don’t like Core, run Knots.” How is that a controversial statement? It’s literally what all the knots influencers have been saying.

Which core devs need to be “replaced”? All of them? Everyone who has written any code in the last year? The last two years? What’s the criteria for removal?

Bitcoin Core is a voluntary, decentralized effort.

Who decided who gets replaced? Who decides who is on the new “reference team”? Sounds like you’ll need a centralized team to decide that.

Bitcoin obviously needs updates in the future, and maintenance in the interim — (mostly) everyone knows this.

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nicnym 2d ago

Bitcoin-core pushed controversial changes in the face of widespread dissent and ongoing debate with the op_return mempool update, and have now DELISTED v30 and 30.1 because of a massive bug that somehow slipped through 2 versions and all the “best” review and testing.

If the current 5 Bitcoin-core maintainers don’t voluntarily step down then the uses will have to establish a new reference software for future update testing.

My contention in this conversation has been that YOU (as a public Bitcoin influencer) have a responsibility to either have a balanced guest list on your show about this issue, or go back to the previous guests who advocated for Bitcoin-core and confront them on the complete failure to catch this wallet removal bug.

If this bug happened with knots, the knots side would never hear the end of it. Yet here, we have excuses and cover immediately deployed just like a fucking government institution.

walker 2d ago

How many “spam apologists” has Kratter hosted on his show?

nicnym 1d ago

Kratter doesn’t do interviews bro. I honestly would like to believe you are still a good actor here.

Bitcoin core’s quality has been compromised, the unprecedented delisting of Core v30 proves that all the positives Murch, Lopp, and others claimed about the “decentralized review process” have failed.

We can speculate the reasons, but change is required regardless.

It’s not about knots, it’s about fixing or replacing the reference software project.