"Owned by humanity"
"Stewards"
"Consensus"
"#Bitcoin is about money"
Yes.
This entire saga gets stranger by the day. Adam Back on Twitter just now:
"Bitcoin is owned by humanity, the protocol developers are stewards, and need consensus from users to change it materially. bitcoin is about money, spam has no place in the timechain. what defaults the bitcoin core project puts in the reference client matter in this"
https://x.com/adam3us/status/1963830548012372324?t=to5P1hkqrtz5iCSlMOwGwQ&s=19
Discussion
With the blocksize wars, Core rightfully defended #Bitcoin from impatient, shortsighted shitcoiners who thought that L1 could be vertically scaled without risking overcentralization (they were wrong, retarded, and lost).
With the spam wars, Core dismissed users as technically illiterate, not fully appreciating the demand to fend off shitcoiners exploiting valid consensus rules, until finally being forced to take it seriously (only after being threatened with losing control of the development process by the Knots insurrection).