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Yet it literally has happened (on comments that I personally found overly aggressive, but that's a feature of polarization). The danger is that if you silence someone that is emotional and already polarized, then there will be resentment. And unless there's a reason for these people to go away, which can happen in 2 ways on Bitcoin, neither of them good outcomes, or get with the program through some amazing charm offensive, resentment will grow. I think I saw a mild charm offensive but it didn't work, so resentment will grow further, and I think that's what we see happening.
Dismissing people that use Bitcoin is imho not a good solution, especially not "the masses". If we'd pose that they are powerless then just wait until influencers get the ear of what you call "real stakeholders". Politics is a dangerous game for those that aren't relentlessly chasing power, and honestly, it should have no place in the reference implementation. Also, the only devs I remember being good at politics were those that were complete sociopaths. If you have one of these in your echo chamber, more than luck is needed.
If we'd pose that they are powerless then just wait until influencers get the ear of what you call "real stakeholders".
Trump got elected despite a huge media campaign against him. And bitcoin won't have to achieve a similar feat since it's not a democracy.
Bitcoin stakeholders are liable to be intelligent and will have a huge financial incentive to get to the truth.
If stakeholders need the public's blessing - which I'm not sure they do - they will fight that battle.
Politics is a dangerous game for those that aren't relentlessly chasing power, and honestly, it should have no place in the reference implementation.
Not sure politics can be avoided.
I have been thinking about measuring consensus, and my feeling is that people aren't doing a good job of it currently.
For example, I think if there was a futures market on the knots drama somehow, it would have been immediately seen as nothing. And they'd probably have left the knots crew to shout and scream about it.
If you have one of these in your echo chamber, more than luck is needed
The joy right now is that bitcoin has technically savvy, ideological nutcases with large bags who would happily risk their entire stack and dump a fork coin if things get contentious.
My opinion isn't fully formed in this area so take everything I say with a grain of salt. I saw Lopp on some podcast talk about this recently and it was apparent he'd considered things I have not.