If you believe in game theory, and if you are in Bitcoin, i assume you do. The logical assumption is to assume all the devs and major actors are now captured. What move do you make in this scenario?

Sole maintainer because BIP110 runs only over knots for now? I agree that the best solution would be multiple client implementations, but how does that come about?

He is a talented Dev, but with the amount of money now involved, can you trust anyone to change Bitcoin now?

I wouldn't trust a centralizing force in btc in general. You mentioned something that has me confused, isn't BIP110 a soft fork and therefore a tightening of the rules instead of a change? That's an argument I hear from the knots side. What have your actions been up until now? I think you mentioned somewhere that you're running knots, correct me if I'm wrong. Cheers!

It is a tightening of the rules, but it can cause a chain split which is a hard fork. BIP110 could be the shorter chain. I run Knots. We will see what happens with BIP110. So far not enough support.

I'll look into the chain split stuff more then, I'm guessing that's the main concern. I've also read that it might break some of L2 functionality, but I'm still not sure to what extent. Thanks!

There is a thought that it is also to stop rival 2nd layers fo Lightning. But this is not so clear.