Hey, remember that time when the Nordstream pipeline was sabotaged, and then after a while most investigations quietly concluded without reporting on who did it?

Weird.

Anyway, anything good on tv lately? I hear Shogun is good.

I showed a developer friend what I've been working on. He's not on nostr, doesn't care for bitcoin, calls everything "crypto", you get the idea... Also showed him the app ecosystem.

He glanced at it for a mere 30 seconds and discarded as a developer project that solves nothing.

I'm just sharing so you have an idea of how some people might be feeling when they see this space. Just a dev. project.

Zero proof of work went into that evaluation. Not a single thought about why a bunch of people might be interested in building this out. Just a crypto thing...

This is why I left that world and he's one of the few remaining people I keep in touch with. Perhaps not for long 🤣 It's good to get an outside perspective once in a while so there's some value in it I suppose.

I wonder if they'll read this 🤣

Nah, who am I kidding, not going to look for another 5 years.

Feels like the start of a dark dystopian novel. The lizard people against the people.

Stop sucking bitcoin influencer dick. That should be your first goal.

This is encouraging to hear. He places himself in a precarious situation by being involved with both OpenSats and Ten31 which serve the same market space, obviously in different purposes, but with purposes which create at the very least the appearance of blurred lines. Everyone has seen enough BS in our respective lines of work to know that conflicts of interest exist even when we may insist they don't. He invites every ounce of criticism by remaining active in leadership over both of these entities.

The original startup OG stack

Good morning Max!

Ark invest can create another entity that is a non profit and just donate from there.

Devs don't need to do anything.

They can set up their own 501c3 if they don't already have one & just donate.

But yeah fuck black box non profits.

Are you saying that you believe Saylor wants to stop work on bitcoin core so that he can sell an alternative core software created by him?

I agree with ARK's decision to not give money to OpenSats.

They should fund core devs / projects directly unless OpenSats published PUBLICLY how much they're funding each project.

It's amazingly cringe arguing with non-developers about why ceasing work on the base Bitcoin protocol is retarded rather than a genius way to eliminate risk.

There are no software as a service providers here. The devs don’t make money or charge people for using the software.

The meaning of software maintenance is different in this context. It means the work that you have to do to keep the software running on newer operating systems.

For example, let’s say that Apple upgrades their MacOS operating system. There may be changes that the devs must make to the core software to keep it running on the newer Macs.

Saylor is not arguing that devs stop software maintenance. If software maintenance stopped, bitcoin would die within 10 years.

Saylor seems to be arguing that new features should be added to L2s to avoid breaking the core L1 network.

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Do you really think Saylor is arguing for no software maintenance?

People don't understand software development and are afraid that we'll get another Inscriptions vulnerability exploitation or something along those lines. I'm sure this would be a fun debate and educational discussion.