I hope so too. The developers have always been the weakest link. Needs to be resolved somehow. And quickly. We‘re loosing the war. Adoption has stalled.
It’s not about the severity of the change, it’s that the development process is the preferred perimeter to attack.
You don't have to "hack" Bitcoin's consensus rules to influence how the network behaves.
You can steer what gets relayed, mined, or socially accepted by quietly shaping the development process — who gets funded, who reviews changes, which features become defaults, how releases are timed, and how communication is framed.
Control flows through funding, maintainers, policy defaults, and release cadence.
There are probably less than a 100 people in the world who have game theory studied:
- the development process control surfaces — where steering actually happens
- what capture looks like
- how capture changes outcomes
- why the development process is the preferred perimeter to attack
…it’s the only thing that can kill Bitcoin. Let’s hope the outcome will be a stronger Bitcoin.
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Can’t wait for Bitcoiners to realize that the time is now to work out the core maintainer role and decision-making process - this vector is a key one. The “enemy” sure knows all about the attack vectors and are organized. Hopium is not a strategy.