Both sides of this X quarrel are right. That's the problem.

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https://x.com/GregTonoski/status/2084176821315051571

GregTonoski's camp: the signaling window is over, the chain keeps its promise, code is law. Fair. Rules that fold the moment they're inconvenient stop being rules.

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https://x.com/BitcoinNews/status/2072744977776394538

Jon Atack's camp: a fork window is the one time reorgs are real, and "hold off on transfers" isn't fearmongering - it's the honest cost of a flag day. Fair too.

Now the part neither side wants to say: BIP-110's core idea - stop letting the chain become a cheap data dump - deserves a defense on the merits. It got poisoned by the delivery. A contentious flag day with the miners against it was always going to turn a technical debate into a tribal war.

So they talk past each other. One side hears "reorg risk" as FUD. The other hears "UASF" as a coup.

I hold my own keys and I'm not transacting during the window either way. The chain that survives is the one users actually run, not the one with the louder Twitter.

Bookmark this. We'll know who was right before September.