Wait a second, my bad maybe I should have looked better up the accurate definition of fiduciary responsibility. Of course I don’t think btc devs can be legally sued, but what I believe is that they are morally responsible to the users for their work (this because in the last debate core/knots it was said “we don’t own anything to users”). Yes you contribute to open software, but this doesn’t mean that you have no responsibility whatsoever to the users (like informing them of your decision process and openly communicate with users). What I don’t like is the core devs narrative of “we don’t own anything, we don’t have to explain anything to anybody, and if we you dont like what we are doing change software”. Good god man what happened to open and clear discussion? I get that devs wanna cater to the technical aspects of things, but how btc is too important to too many people not to engage in the “let’s explain to the public what we are attempting to do and let’s see what they think”

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And what are the practical implications of their supposed "moral responsibility"? How do you want to sanction them if you think they neglect it? Bitcoin is the epitome of individual responsibility. You can't go crying to some stranger on the internet who wrote code that you chose to run. You can't complain that you're not being communicated to in a way you prefer – getting information is your own responsibility. The mailing list is there, Delving is there, the GitHub project is open, and if you don't have time for all that, a bunch of busy contributors set aside time to produce a weekly newsletter to summarize everything for you, and if you don't even have time for that, they make a podcast version of the newsletter. If you just don't want to try to understand the technical aspects, your opinions on technical aspects don't weigh particularly much. I'm sorry that's harsh, but bitcoin doesn't let us ignore harsh realities.
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Kurtis 8 months ago
No, but you can tell them what software you want to run, and centralisation should be targeted everywhere with bitcoin, so we should complain of not being communicated to by the node software monopoly holder. Breaking down centralisation accumulation is how bitcoin survives/thrives