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119 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 10h \ parent \ on: Can Someone Please Tell Me What is Going On With Bitcoin Core AskSN
Yes. It's good to have these people around, sometimes they say useful stuff and their passion can be a powerful force. It's also useful to remember they're no different from any cultists -- they have a worldview, it constructs reality narrowly, they march forward in service of the cartoon they see in their minds, the end.
For sure. Contrarian voices, ideologists, even trolls, are a necessary part of the ecosystem. They speak the uncomfortable truths, they prevent us from becoming complacent.
The truth is still that a project as vast as Bitcoin will always have people with opposing opinions. Two options: compromise or forking your own instance. IMO, compromise will be the prevailing choice most of the time. People unwilling to compromise will end up on the receiving end of what just happened. I genuinely thank them for their sacrifice. It's an ungrateful role. But it's an important role nonetheless. Yet, I'd probably be the one handling the stick, hitting said martyr, if I had the technical skills to contribute at the technical level, getting annoyed by the mental space the martyr is taking while I am trying to do my job the best I can.
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In my experience, it's easy to have tight ideology and principles and moral purity until you have to make something actually work in the real world with other humans. Once that happens, all those crisp ideals get squashed into a grey muck, or else the people nobly hurtle into irrelevancy or the grave.
I don't think I'm overstating it to say that btc existing at this point, at all, is a miracle. We'll see how miraculous it remains.
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