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Two long interviews about the knots vs core issue. One with Jimmy Song and Adam Back. The other with Luke Dashjr and Mechanic And Jimmy Song as well. It goes back and forth a lot and both sides present their side. It's nuanced and they touch every detail https://www.youtube.com/live/9p_OBGQityg https://www.youtube.com/live/UtGC5wRWB3k My personal take: After a lot of back and forth, it really boils down to whether you want long term development towards bitcoin as money (store of value, payments, ...) or highly expensive but resilient general data storage. Knots mission statement is the former. Cores mission statement is the latter.

CAPITALISM How Money & Banking works and how it is broken for the vast majority of people. Explained by Lyn Alden in an amazing ~30 minutes talk 😃 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk_HWmmwiAs Its a comprehensive summary of the history & evolution of our monetary system going through all relevant historic events to cover all basics in great detail while keeping it simple enough to follow. Really fundamental for everyone out there who might still struggle to understand WHY ₿itcoin is a phenomenon at all.

Kill your heroes is what Bitcion needs 🙂 Satoshi did it for us, but we need to work hard on ourselves to avoid being star struck or stylizing others as some sort of untouchable experts, because that is the beginning of the end and we do want to keep the bitcoin spirit. All heroes, experts, visionaries, you name it... are humans too and make mistakes. If we want a better world, we need to respect each other and discuss content based on merit, sharing pros/cons. Satoshi knew this and stayed anonymous. If we want Bitcoin to succeed, we should all avoid making this about people, tribalism and cults around chosen or enlightened folks. This is usually most difficult for those privileged or fortunate enough to be experts and grew used to it. If we want Bitcoin to succeed, the attitude we need is to be humble and empower humble experts who engage with the community and disarm criticism by sharing facts and arguments and not by hiding away ignorantly and/or arrogantly - this will only worsen the problem.