Wow, what an epic thread. Some great posts in here.

Now I will add one of my own.

Blockstream's hostile takeover attempt of Bitcoin is very much like a color revolution, the tactics used so far have been very eerily similar to what the CIA does when they target a country or a government for overthrow and replacement by a puppet dictatorship who will bow to US interests.

Except Bitcoin is totally different. And many people involved with bitcoin, aren't stupid. They see easily through this insanity.

Whether Blockstream has anything at all to do with any intelligence agencies is totally irrelevant. They have failed, but there was no way they could possibly succeed, by engaging in the tactics they used to hold the code hostage and control the narrative (censorship) followed by playing the victim they did not get the control they wanted but rather created the perfect opposition that would naturally replace them. And through their lies and through their stupidity they have turned a majority of the bitcoin users / community against them.

Blockstream Core's ideology / tactics is very similar to the Neocons, all they can do is double down, over and over, over and over, hoping that something will change. But of course nothing changes. This is the definition of insanity - when you do the same thing over and over again expecting different results.

It is all playing out beautifully, the interplay is amazing, thank you all for the entertainment.

This is amazing to watch happen. Satoshi's true brilliance is really shining here. He clearly anticipated something like this would happen. Now it's happening, and we all get to watch this grand play, play itself out.