I have no love for influencers. If its 5 years in the future that's great, I'm only concerned because I feel like I heard drive chains on a podcast like once and now out of nowhere its like this has to be done now. I hear these arguements about new bips and its "we've been working on this for x years and its great so were just going to go nuclear", like CTV, bro I've never even heard of this before! Paul explained drive chains once on wbd, and he did a terrible job (not an attack on him, I just had no idea what he was talking about); it was quiet for like 6 months, and now its OK MASF PRESS THE RED BUTTON! Dude, if I had put my phone down during this vacation I'd still have no clue what a drive chain is. All I'm saying is there should be more public awareness campaigning before activating soft forks. I get from some peoples perspective this has been brewing for a long time, but for many of us it hasn't.
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Drivechain supporters have always been around. I think they have just been more loud and causing certain maxis to get outraged which actually increased awareness of drivechains to the haters dismay 😂
I believe you. I haven't heard much discussion around it.
Fair enough. All the info is out there though, countless videos, interviews and even academic papers. This is the public outreach. It got a boost recently because of a respected core dev asking for input on a pr.
We canbonly show you the door. You have to walk through it.
The idea is simple, does not hurt bitcoin. Opposition is ego driven and a threat to vested interest projects who have sunk years in overly complicated half measures.
Also, hopefully the activation happens sooner than five years, within a year would be great. All the groundwork code and proof of concept is done. My comment on five years is to say five years from activation, it will have been a giant nothing burger to regular bitcoiners. People against it now for dumb reasons (some are valid concerns) will be embarassed by their tweets.