"What is it about Core as a process that is causing all these bugs? These bugs are a result of a culture that makes everyone feel afraid to question anyone that is part of the untouchable clique at the center of it... So you have a few wizards at the top who's egos can never be touched or questioned, and you have all of their lackeys below them who will remain in the places they are in and be very careful not to offend the people, that way they can maintain their position and continue up the hierarchy, and theyll continue getting grants and funding.. those people will continue to exist, and they will continue screwing up as people get their energy drained out from the war that's going on... Everything gets discussed behind closed doors now, and if you dare question anything that happens in public, you're out. You're never going to have anything you ever write or propose in Bitcoin again be considered seriously, its just going to die."

In a nutshell, Core's vision of Bitcoin is that all participants of the network are slaves to malicious transaction crafters. If you're a regular user and your normal transactions gets outbidded by porn GIFs and orangewashed VC-funded shitcoins that's too bad it's the free market, suck it up. If you're a node runner and don't want to relay and facilitate the garbage that's too bad your mempool needs to predict what will get mined, suck it up. If you're a miner and don't want to help these bad actors that's too bad you need to take their fees or you'll go bankrupt, suck it up. And let's not even get into participating in consensus rule governance, it is up to sanctioned developers and large pools to plan and activate forks! I truly don't get why anyone holding this mental model would be interested in Bitcoin. Fortunately it's completely upside-down: in reality all participants are fully sovereign to do what they please, otherwise Bitcoin wouldn't be a decentralized system. Each node runner is free to relay whatever transactions he wants following whatever criteria he wants. And each miner is also free to prioritize transactions for mining following whatever strategy he wants, and signal for whatever forks he supports. A sane full node software strives to maximize its user's sovereignty and give them tools to wield against bad actors instead of chipping away said sovereignty release after release. While Core doesn't correct course and is still widely used there will be room for other implementations to eat away its market share.

Except that BIP110 won't fail. If it did, that would prove the fundamental assumptions Bitcoin depends on never actually held up in the first place. But we already proved that they do with BIP148.

Hundreds of hours of work has gone into this investigation. If you found the article valuable and want to support my work you can send some sats to this Lightning Address: zippykoala95@mannabitcoin.com

This is why we BIP 110.

"What is it about Core as a process that is causing all these bugs? These bugs are a result of a culture that makes everyone feel afraid to question anyone that is part of the untouchable clique at the center of it... So you have a few wizards at the top who's egos can never be touched or questioned, and you have all of their lackeys below them who will remain in the places they are in and be very careful not to offend the people, that way they can maintain their position and continue up the hierarchy, and theyll continue getting grants and funding.. those people will continue to exist, and they will continue screwing up as people get their energy drained out from the war that's going on... Everything gets discussed behind closed doors now, and if you dare question anything that happens in public, you're out. You're never going to have anything you ever write or propose in Bitcoin again be considered seriously, its just going to die."

Signal vs. Noise

CAPTURE An investigation across four articles into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended. Article Three: The Merge citadel21.com/the-merge

There we go, Roughnecks back at it! Congratulations miners.

On track for publishing article 3 of CAPTURE tomorrow! 🔥

BIP110, back at it with another block.

Bitcoin belongs to the plebs.

A recap of the last eight months of Bitcoin Core: ⚠️ 30 blew OP_RETURN open, 80b to 100KB. "Ethereum on Bitcoin." ❌ 30 and 30.1 could delete every wallet on the node during migration. 😱 31 reveals your IP to peers. Core is reduced to spam relay, deletion and doxxing. #BIP110

Bitcoin has survived 17 years _with_ the RDTS rules. It has only been "without them" since last October, a mere 8 months, and has been in mortal peril that entire time. It's only a matter of time until Bitcoin dies with this new status quo. RDTS is the only way to prevent that.

If a developer reaches the point where the egos of the Core devs feel threatened he'll be chased out quick. The resulting sycophantic monoculture is going to result in issues until more people realize that its no longer a competent team capable of maintaining Bitcoin's reference client

The deep state wants you to stack stonks, not sats. Wake up

Twice as many BIP-110 signaling blocks this period, compared to previous. And still 200 blocks to go. It’s pretty clear that BIP-110 support is growing. thebitcoinportal.com/live/no…

BIP-110 is inevitable. And BIP110 will not stop, how many blocks have they mined now?