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Reminds me of a Bitcoin lawyer who was often a guest on Junseth's podcast, forgot his name, who used to say: "I'm a lawyer, but not YOUR lawyer"

And what exactly these Devs pay Satoshi for his gift to humanity?

Arrogance is bliss it seems for core devs these days. "If you don't pay my salary, stfu peasant" No Sjors, our presence, stack, and nodes should all be relevant to you & the rest of the core devs. The fact that you blatantly disregard this shows how badly we need competing options. Thank you.

Your analogy doesn't work here, but it shows how you relate to the world - lawyers largely can be bought and paid for with ease. Are you that easy Sjors? The ethos of Bitcoin shouldn't be a game of who can pay the devs the most money to get what they want that's fucking absurd.

Arrogance is bliss for core devs these days. Wow, just wow 😳.

~people disagreeing with you~ “YOU DONT GET TO DEMAND STUFF” Weak shit, homie.

Regardless of opinions on this exact issue, core devs need some pushback & Bitcoiners need optionality. I think this energy for example is abhorrent:

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What about explicitly?

I hope he designated what he's funding in OPReturn.

Sjors does not care about node runners or Bitcoin. That is why we run Bitcoin Knots.

holy shit this is actively anti-bitcoin

Geez didn't know you were this bad Sjors. thought I heard it in your voice on bitcoin explained but damn, worse than I thought

I thought bitcoin-core maintainers were supposed to be stewards of the protocol, not working for some patron who pays their salary. So no, not an excellent take at all.

Do people that donate get a say?

No. Donations are not a contract for performance of specific tasks or the creation of a fiduciary relationship. They are appreciated of course.

Are you being contracted by someone to work on core?

This is unacceptable to me.

LMAO

"Core devs work for someone who isn't you" lol. Is this supposed to be a compelling reason to run Core?

Fair point—developers aren’t obligated to cater to users who don’t pay them. But in open-source, users choose to adopt software based on its relevance to their needs. If your code drifts too far from those needs or betrays core principles, people will start looking elsewhere. That’s not entitlement—it’s decentralization in action. Look at Mozilla: Firefox didn’t fall because of bad engineering, but because they abandoned the principles that built user trust. The result? Gradual loss of relevance. We’re not at that point with Bitcoin Core—but the growing number of users migrating to Bitcoin Knots should be a wake-up call, not something to dismiss. Open-source thrives when devs and users stay in sync—ignore that, and alternatives will fill the gap.

Developers should be careful thinking that the only way to overpower them is to outcompete them. That’s not how the world works. If core believes that they can’t be competed with and it proves true, then “powerless” people might look to other solutions. No one has to outcompete you if you are no longer there.