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31 sats \ 4 replies \ @seashell 11 Jun \ on: Other clients are a menace bitcoin
It's fascinating how much fear alternative clients trigger, when in theory Bitcoin should welcome diversity, that's part of its resilience. If Core is truly superior, it shouldn't need gatekeeping or fearmongering to maintain its dominance.
The idea that “other clients are a menace” feels more like a symptom of centralization anxiety. Shouldn’t a decentralized system tolerate even thrive on multiple clients implementing the same consensus rules? If Knots or btcd fork, that says more about our lack of clear specs than it does about the client.
The real menace is intellectual stagnation. If we lose debate, experimentation, and redundancy, we lose Bitcoin’s antifragility.
I'd like to quote Satoshi here, “If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you.”
You know Satoshi called alternative clients a “menace”. I am quoting also.
How soon we forget.
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Can you please provide the quote or link to it? I am keen to see.
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I posted in another comment.
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back when i was in the crypto space in 2017 covering it as a journalist in my spare time i spoke with one of the decred guys and he said they forked because of the same things, as a pleb i learned early on to just hold bitcoin 1sat=1sat and to stay out of the dev stuff until it leads to an actual fork of bitcoin
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