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Why huge assholes thing?

They weren't assholes, they were OG maxis in the sense that they were absolutely uncompromising in everything they tried to do, and they were very vocal about that fact - For better or wose.

That is, until they turned to Monero for some extra help on the privacy front becausee Bitcoin wasn't moving as fast they'd like/

Most people however, seem to confuse lack of compromise (and absolute maximalism, especially at a time when maximalism wasn't a popular term) with arrogance.

Personally, I find it sad and absolutely disrespectful to call them assholes when 10 years later their now dead-in-the-water wallet seems to be the ONLY wallet in the Bitcoin ecosystem to apply certain privacy techniques you just don't see anywhere else. That's the real sad part. It's a huge loss for Bitcoin in general.

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GLACA 1y ago

Ima be honest. It is all so confusing. Appreciate your opinion. So many people are obviously pushing their own agendas. Big part of bitcoin community wasn't vocal about privacy at all and instead focused on price pumping which means nothing if the network becomes crippled to death with threats and regulations. Whenever I heard people like saylor speaking about the regulatory work that has to be done I was wondering how far they think it should be taken? To extend where btc becomes cbdc? Fiat system won't allow a parallel economy flourishing on btc network. May be I don't see far enough along the game theory trajectory though.

Uxellodunum 1y ago

I don't think any of us can truly see far enough to understand where things will end up - But truth of the matter is this is the next best time to take action and help steer things in the direction we want - Through consensus we overcome the negatives of personal agendas.

I'm looking for a revival of the Bitcoin privacy advocacy and cypherpunk values in the coming months and years.

Having followed the Samourai devs for years, they knew this was going to happen - And I for one am looking forward to the fight they're going to put up because they won't go down easy. Their fight may be a catalyst for privacy-minded individuals to 'hoist the colors.'

Samourai devs also picked a lot of fights with a lot of other developers when they saw non-privacy implementations of code in privacy-focused services - Their biggest fight was probably with Wasabi Wallet. Years later and we now know Wasabi censors transactions and via chain analysis users of their mixing service have been deanonimised. Yet Samourai get insulted left right and center because of their abrasiveness... Divisive at a communtiy level, but actions must speak louder.