I’ve been reflecting on how ironic this whole situation has become. The node runners and the anti-spam movement are the true Bitcoiners, those who genuinely understand Bitcoin’s monetary nature and work to preserve it as a means of exchange, not just as a data host. They’re the cautious ones, trying to avoid a fork and to maintain the chain’s integrity.
Meanwhile, one of the first things Bitcoin Core accused people like Bitcoin Mechanic and the node-running community of was causing a fork. But that accusation says more about them than about us. Usually, when someone accuses others of something, it reveals their own intentions. And it’s starting to look like Core might actually be the side that ends up triggering a hard fork.
If that happens, it’ll be deeply ironic, especially since they’re already developing “Libre Relay.” You can easily imagine them taking that route all the way to a “LibraCoin,” just like Facebook’s old technocratic project. It fits perfectly: the same mindset of engineers trying to centralize control under the banner of “coordination,” while the people running nodes those actually keeping Bitcoin alive pstay true to its original purpose.
And if that fork really happens, we’ll dump the LibraCoins into the hype and stack more sats.
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