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1110 sats \ 35 replies \ @DarthCoin 14 Nov 2023 \ on: Taking a sabbatical from Bitcoin FOSS meta

Another "Mike Hearn moment" in Bitcoin history?

21 sats \ 34 replies \ @nemo 14 Nov 2023

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131 sats \ 3 replies \ @theariard OP 14 Nov 2023

Don’t take for granted that Bitcoin developers owe you their time, energy, dedication and personal genius.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 14 Nov 2023 freebie

Each participant in Bitcoin network have its own role, energy, dedication. Some will write code, some will run nodes, some will do mining, some will write tutorials, some will onboard newbies etc.

You are not more special than others.

https://i.postimg.cc/MTjtk8MR/change_bitcoin_code.jpg

387 sats \ 0 replies \ @theariard OP 14 Nov 2023

Philosophically, on one hand I share your sentiment that each participant in the Bitcoin network have its own role, energy, dedication and no contribution is more special than other.

On the other hand, not all contributions are bringing the same value (if we take bitcoins as a common scale of value), otherwise we would tread the same someone correcting a non-significant typo in core documentation, than someone reducing the usage of the network to everyone else by finding some new scaling solution.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 14 Nov 2023

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1 sat \ 29 replies \ @DarthCoin 14 Nov 2023

Interesting to see how stackers are still throwing sats to a quiter... is like a black hole. Somebody should tell them... bitcoin is scarce and they will regret it later.

1158 sats \ 22 replies \ @theariard OP 14 Nov 2023

This is a bit insulting to be called a “quiter” by someone who has never made a substantial technical contribution to bitcoin or lightning, to the best of my knowledge.

Though as a note, even Satoshi did “quite” Bitcoin. Nature of open-source, if successful your projects are growing beyond your personal outreach and what you can master by design.

I bet you even Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk or Ray Dalio would quite Bitcoin FOSS if they were working on it.

Like said, keeping an eye on consensus changes and I’ll keep doing a bit of security research. I love security research for its own sake, and the taste of solving hard and unique problem.

Generally, those types of contributions create more value for the ecosystem that 90% of the bitcoin developers will do during all their careers.

237 sats \ 21 replies \ @DarthCoin 14 Nov 2023 freebie

Everybody in Bitcoin network is contributing... not only you. https://i.postimg.cc/MTjtk8MR/change_bitcoin_code.jpg

120 sats \ 20 replies \ @theariard OP 14 Nov 2023

Feel free to show me your contributions to Bitcoin.

77 sats \ 19 replies \ @sudonaka 15 Nov 2023

Social contributions will do more than code updates ever could.

All heroes will be killed.

Good luck with your hedge fund. Try not to end up in fincen prison

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @theariard OP 18 Dec 2023

I’ll wait you for you telling me if a security disclosure is a social contribution or a technical one, like a code update, in a constructive and argumented fashion.

In my opinion, security disclosure are social contributions, as they’re setting risks standards among the Bitcoin ecosystem.

On the fincen prison, if you don’t know it already, I’ll inform you than writing and publishing bitcoin code is protected under the First amendment by US federal courts and running a hedge fund is protected as a commercial activity under the “Commerce Clause”.