Their Jade is entirely open source, reproducible, and air-gappable. On top of that, Blockstream is the only company that has put up actual satellites with nodes on them to serve undeveloped parts of the world. This attacking of Adam Back is quite obviously intended to hurt Bitcoin, by impeding development and adoption. And I know almost everyone is super impressed with this tech, but I must insist on this point - we are behind in this game. We are currently losing it, and losing badly. I am not willing to let our opponents take a critical piece off the board.

To me from an intelligence point of view, why would you divest from any vectors of attack. The BTC danger isn't that it's uncensorable, it's the ideology, the shitcoin attack was to show anything can be BTC and that failed and they would have obviously make contingency plans for that. Simply put the focus shifted from changing the protocol to how it's integrated in purchases and the broader fiat system. Those investments are actively going on and the proof is Black Rock buying up BTC miners, Coinbase ownership, forced Binances to be sold via the US government and sitting on boards of every major dealer of BTC including Microstrategy and Jack Dorseys Cashapp. The attack didn't stop guys.