Oh yes, Bitcoin is very serious indeed. And will only get more serious over time. Attracting all kinds of corporate interest, trying to influence developers so they can gain control over the network for their own profit.
And they'll fail like all the other corporates who've created shitcoin forks if they try to force their interests.
Not saying funding is wrong, it's the intention behind the funding that makes or breaks the relationship.
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i think this idea is overblown. people have been building malicious bitcoin changes since it was launched. whether it’s blackrock or roger ver, it only matters if we all run the software. the idea that we need to gate keep who provide no strings attached funding to developers i don’t totally understand
blackrock can give developers 1 trillion dollars to change bitcoins supply from 21m. if we don’t update our nodes to that code it doesn’t matter. the real defense is all of us, not who funds devs
Economic nodes matter, not just running a node and then never interacting with Bitcoin.
What does that mean?
It means all nodes aren’t created equal
Exactly. No need to gate keep.
Node runners take care of the issue.
