almost six minutes of these bitches just yapping about how his life should be over man it’s disgusting anti-american behavior

Read that closely: Core v31 was doxxing IP addresses!

Same way we let them have access to our roads and public areas with surveillance tech like Flock. Same reason why we let them into our pockets through our phones. Same reason we let them into our cars with driver facing cameras and kill switches.

"Bitcoin will die if BIP110 (fails/succeeds)." No it won't. At least not immediately or directly. Personally, I think Bitcoin will be much healthier on BIP110 rules. But it has survived for 17 years without them, and would continue to survive into the future (all else remaining equal). That last part is important. I run BIP110 because I belive that the path Core is on is unsustainable. "Adding features" to Bitcoin will eventually kill it. Yes. Dead. I think we are still a long way off from that being an emergency, but we need to remove the tumor before it metastasises the rest of the network (or yes, Bitcoin will die). BIP110 is one option to remove the cancer, and I think it is the best option we have right now. It's not the only way to remove the cancer, but it is the only effective method in existence today. This is why I run BIP110. Core is cancer.

If only we had money the government couldn't control.

To assert that violence is never justified is wholly specious. The state uses violence all the time, in a myriad of ways. The use of violence in the administration of justice is what the social contract is all about. The people give up their right to settle disputes and defend themselves with the use of violence in exchange for the state undertaking to protect us and provide mechanisms for dispute resolution. By this means, it assumes the monopoly right to use violence. When the state fails to honour its side of the bargain, the social contract is voided. The state can no longer legitimately claim its monopoly right and the people are entitled to act in order to remedy the state default. This is where we are at right now. In the current situation, the people can legitimately claim that the right to use violence has reverted to them. The judicious use of violence in such circumstances is entirely justified.