I don’t know how to reply😅

I am running Bitcoin Knots.

Easy, run Knots.

Wow

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I really can't understand the view that insists that all users of Bitcoin must bow down to and obey the dictates of the Bitcoin Core developers. That they somehow have this secret knowledge that us plebs can't possibly understand. It flies entirely in the face of the cypherpunk ethos and the principles of decentralization. JB's argument is that Bitcoin Core is "meritocratic" - that's complete bullshit. They shut down ideas they don't like and do the things they're paid to do. Meritocracy is multiple implementations competing with each other in the battlefield of ideas. Knots is gaining ground on that one.

No he won’t listen

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Yeah that was a jaw-dropping admission. Good to see it though. The more they expose themselves for who they are the better.

I honestly think there's a 10% chance he actually supports knots and is making really bad arguments to turn people off of core.

It's actually so cringe. He's made some amazing contributions, especially to Nostr! It's a shame to see behavior like this.

Really JawDropping moment to me😵‍💫

No one has that view. Bitcoin software developers don’t want you to bow down. If fact, they don’t care what you do. The knowledge they have that you don’t isn’t secret, it’s 100% out in the open and all changes are done through an open source rough consensus process done in public. If you don’t like that Bitcoin is Bitcoin Core, you can run software that some dude changed to better fit your liking and hope it turns out good for you.

I don't disagree with you; but it's worse than that: he's right; and, it's the root of the problem to the interest of bitcoin's long-term sustainability. A single software project in inherently vulnerable to the whims of a few. It's up to the rest of us (not the core devs) to make bitcoin more than just predominantly determined by a single software project.

This is 100% not what JB and others are saying. So I can't agree with you here.

pretty weak protocol if there can only be one implementation

Ok

First its not "some dude" but a number of Bitcoin developers, at least 10. And second you may learn who is this "dude" from Matt's video, if you want. View quoted note →

I know exactly who Luke is. He’s probably one of the smartest bitcoin software code writers out there and a great individual contributor to Core. Why do you assume I’m talking about Knotts? Anyone who is a software developer can make their own bitcoin implementation no? As far Knotts goes, how many of those other 10 developers have ever had an objection to one of Luke’s changes and are able to stop it from being implemented like in a rough consensus process that Core follows? The consensus of Core developers disagreed with some of Luke’s suggestions and stoped them which is why he has his own implementation. Knotts is Luke’s implementation and he does what he wants, isn’t he free to do that? Also, maybe he’d be happy being described as a dude.

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No he's going completely mental. Same like the FED etc. thinking he is better/above everyone else etc. Crazy.

He's a digital plumber, which is great. But to believe that you can dictate to the world how to use a toilet just because you are the plumber shows that he is losing it. I guess the whole AI thing is taking a big toll on people like him whose whole identity is defined by being able to be a plumber. So now that this skill is becoming accessible to everyone, he freaks out. Sad to see.

This is a reasonable take. I don't deny at all the value of what developers do. The stuff needs to get built. But it's everyone else's decision to choose to use the things that get built.

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