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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: BIP 322 draft design and improvement thread
by
aliashraf
on 15/08/2022, 10:06:59 UTC
@NotATether

Wandering in the woods, is beyond Bitcoiner. We are not hired by anybody, so there is no obligation to follow TODO assignments by BIPs just because they've got some stupid number.
More importantly, your approach compromises the very first line of resistance for Bitcoin: developers' resistance.
I can imagine an adverarial attack like this:

1- The adversary recruits an army of average programmers, sending them to bitcointalk, mailing list, GitHub, so forth.

2- The shills are rewarded based on the credit they grind in communities they are active.

3- They earn credit by minor contributions they make, They enjoy free technical/editorial support for their contributions while following adversary's strategy.

4- It takes some time, but eventually they manage to penetrate and start pushing weird ideas and BIPs, providing the necessary foundation for adversary's main project, which has been lurking in the shadows for the right moment to become public.

I have no trust in anybody to rest assure, following the orders, I do my own research, I have my own vision, IDGAF.

What makes me upset about your style is not its conformance with the above adversarial scenario, I don't go that far. No, you are not hired by a penetrator, but what you are doing is bad for the resistance, it makes us to look weak and irrelevant, leaving bitcoin defenceless. With all the hypes and threats, it is the worst time for us to be distracted by BIPs and TODOs.

Again: Keep the tempo slow and low, it is our tempo.