The truth may be more simple: the economy lost faith in core to solve the scalability problem.
And yes, this is a takeover. Core forgot that bitcoin is not just development, but also economy and politic. They ignored the needs of the economy, and the politics of consensus. It's not fair to
only blame big blockers when we slide into a contentious hardfork.Maybe their way can be considered technical better - but politically it was not the safest and secure, but the most dangerous way: the way that increased the risk of a contentious hardfork.
Is the economy supposed to decide on the technicalities of the system? Are we going to let people who major in economics and politics make the most important decisions that people with an IT degree need to be making? If so, then I might as well tear apart my 'degree'.
When did companies become laboratory-mices for developers to publicly proove a thesis?
At least it was bad style from Todd, especially so short after coinbase said they support lightning and bitcoin.org relistet them. And if I remember correctly, on top of this Todd released a python-script how to do
Everyone overreacted. It was 10$ (I think, not sure) and he offered to give it back. This is not a big deal at all.
Define spam.negl
Who decides what spam is and what usecases to restrict? If you decide now that some kind of transaction are considered as spam and thus prohibited, you act like a regulator. Every node and miner can decide to prohibit spam - and should be allowed to chose his own definition of spam - but we don't need a central regime where a bunch of people decide which transactions are not worth to get in the chain.
IIRC a signature campaign that was paying out daily, that can be considered very spammy and the amount were negligible (that would be an example; who am I to define spam for everyone?).
Core's policy not to publicly "panic" each time this happens.
Really? That's something I never heard.
If everyone heard about it then the policy would not make much sense now would it?
I remember posts not deleted but moved in altcoin-section. Hiding something in a niche is also some kind of censorship.
So what is moderation then? An abstract action that does not exist anymore?