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167 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 25 Nov \ on: How I'd pitch a script upgrade bitcoin
Interesting thoughts, though I'm not sure what the context is that you're responding to.
It sounds to me like the massive sacrifice needed to pitch an upgrade to bitcoin core is a huge barrier, and thus most new development will occur on lightning or other layer 2 solutions.
Because even if you wanted to demonstrate your compelling use-case, it'd be easier to get people to try it out on L2 than to actually run a forked node.
The context is, vaguely, every failed fork proposal. More recently a lot of the covenant proposals. It causes a lot of thrashing which I have genuine empathy for. However, afaict most of the problem is:
- it's extremely hard to accomplish a fork (past folks with tons of political capital made it look easy ... and it has gotten harder)
- developers under-appreciate how hard it is to do sales (and blame the world instead)
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developers under-appreciate how hard it is to do sales (and blame the world instead)
Much truth. Technical people underestimate how difficult non-technical work actually is. As I've grown older, I've appreciated the importance of social skills like making clients feel comfortable, making a sales pitch, and leadership skills like inspiring people and maintaining a good work culture.
These intangibles are hard to measure, but they are undoubted valuable and difficult to do. Personally, I'd rather sit in front of a computer and code. I very much appreciate being able to offload the social responsibilities to someone else.
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I'm still under-indexed on sales et al, but I know the huge blind spot is there.
Same here. Because of that, some of my best (research) work has been the result of collaboration where I partnered with someone who was better at sales, hustling, networking, etc, whereas I provided a solid technical foundation. Sales is important in research too.
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