As contributeur to another open source project, I approve your message. The project is the objective, not the people. I change things on my project with the best intention but I'm perfectly aware that somebody else WILL change my contribution. I sleep like a baby.

There seems to be genuine confusion about how open source works. In particular some people believe that Bitcoin Core developers have a fiduciary duty, either towards them personally or towards some general notion of the Bitcoin network. They are surprised that I and some others respond to this rather aggressively.

Remember that this is the argument Craig Wright tried to make. He failed, but not after millions of dollars were burnt on defending these developers. And not after several quit because of the stress. Don't go down this path.

To put it as a catchy phrase: open source means you can do whatever you want with the code, not with the people who write it.

Open source lets you fork code, and modify it to your liking. That's pretty much what I do every day, which isn't to say that I don't also try to make sure other people like it. I get paid in Bitcoin and OpenSats keeps their whole treasury in it, so the idea that I want destroy potential future income is rather retarded.

Part of CSW's demands was that Bitcoin Core wrote specific (confiscation) code for him. Eventually he just hired people to write it for him, as one should, but somehow that still wasn't enough for him. I get a very similar vibe from people who run Knots but yet don't find that enough. Should we worry about a new round of lawsuits?

Which way, anon?

The sensible policy is that relay should never be more restrictive than what is reliably getting mined in practice.

Anything more restrictive has the collateral harm of increasing centralization pressure by seriously hurting block propagation performance and by driving transactions to direct miner submission.

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number of economic nodes go up?

To me the first 100k is far more meaningful than the first million.

Because I remember all 100 things I had to do in order to earn $1,000 and they all sucked lol 😂

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Primal has joined the delete gang. This delete feature is labeled as a request, because it's impossible to delete your note from every single relay, caching service, local database, etc. Most relays and caching services do honor these requests, but some do not.

Primal

Amethyst

delete.nostr.com

And I'm sure others as well, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment.