People that are outside of this debate or outside of Bitcoin have no idea this debate is even going on. That argument just makes no sense. We are inside an echo chamber of an echo chamber. Not that it's not important, but I'm saying that because the vast majority of people aren't even looking at Bitcoin because the price is down and even if they are, the majority don't know shit about bip110. The people who support BIP110 are the ones thinking long term. If bip110 fails, Bitcoin will likely not fail immediately, but it's culture and rule structure will likely be morally wounded. Miners and developers will know that they are the ones that can make the rules, and the nodes will loose their power. Developers and large Bitcoins institutions like exchanges and industrial miners/pools will now be open to capture by the state and by extension the rules of Bitcoin, and will no longer be protected by the anon, globally distributed network of nodes.
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Comparison is the thief of joy
I disagree with the notion that the outside world has no idea what's going on. They certainly don't know the nuances of what we are arguing about. All they see is the headline saying things like "Bitcoin promotes CSAM" or "Bitcoin founder found in Epstein files" or other similar rage bait type headlines. The world is in fact watching.
Just the other day, Bitcoin came up in conversation with some normie aquaintences. One of the first things they said was, I heard the bitcoin founder guy was a pedophile and theres kiddie porm shared on bitcoin... they don't differentiate between the various arguments. They take every single headline and attribute it to Bitcoin. Not core, not knots, not bip110. They simply lump all the headlines in and count it all as crypto (maybe a fee discerning can identify Bitcoin as being dofferent).
That said, fair point that here on nostr its an echo chamber of an echo chamber... but most people opining are doing so outside of just nostr. Its public facing and its all bad PR.
