what's striking to me using the ignore is just how many pages and pages of posts TPTB-dick has been spamming to derail substantive and meaningful discussion. there is no doubt he has an alternative motive which is anti-Bitcoin.
I guess you can have
Any Colour You Like.
The motive has always been decentralization.
The debate is: is centralization of development the path to decentralization of nodes?
You just need 1 ring to rule them all.
lukejr who has abused this power in the past is part of a small block of Core developers, who argues the majority of developers think that 1 ring to rule them all central development is good.
There are other developers who are invested in technologies that will benefit from a delay in block size increase.
They also argue that we need decentralized nodes but they should use the centralized consensus of their development group
And developers outside that group aren't lead developers. (Paraphrasing nullc)
This approach is centralized control of nodes, it's not the decentralized goal I'm invested in.
and then there's marcus who popped in here taunting all of us in glee of a trainwrecked thread. almost as if he had something to do with it...i doubt it but who knows.
the disturbing thing he said was that him and his centralized crew of authoritarian devs were going to "show us who is driving this airplane" or something extremist like that. you can go look it up from yesterday. that is a big problem.
my contention is that there are plenty of bright, motivated devs out there who would show greater humility and core values to what Bitcoin represents as a public good.