The issue here is that we have BU who is actively trying to discredit core and take over as the mainchain and actively has bugs on their live "production ready" software. The what ifs with core are just that but currently BU has a terrible track record and has essentially vile people behind it like Jihan Wu who has talked about attacking competing chains and mines empty blocks during backlogged transactions.
1. if you stop reading reddit, you will see that no threats are actually made. the non-blockstream endorsed implementations are just plodding along, no deadlines no PoW nukes, no mandatory threats..
2. if you read all the REKT campaigns and comments gmaxwell writes you will see where the real threats are made
3. you keep thinking its a "take over" rather then keeping the network diverse while upgrading to new limits in a way that avoids blockstream domination
4. all the 'rekt xt 2014' rekt classic 2015 rekt BU 2016-17 are all dramatic distractions purely to try getting people to cower down and sumbit themselves over to relying on blockstream.
5. blockstream/core are not perfect. they even admit they prefer to hid their issues for atleast 30 days AFTER a fix is found
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/10364but we do not publicly announce bugs even after they have been fixed for some time.
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announcing bugs with exploit guidelines 30 days after a fix is released would put a ton of our users at massive risk.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3ABugif you think that prtending blockstream(core) is perfect and should be treated as the supreme being of bitcoin control. then you are not thinking about bitcoin the network. your only thinking about FIAT2.0
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oh and lastly
https://blockchain.info/block-height/465117Relayed By BTCC Pool
Number Of Transactions 1
Output Total 12.5 BTC
Estimated Transaction Volume 0 BTC
Size 0.266 KB