we all know that only gmaxwell and those in r/bitcoin want the community divided.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Discuss the merits of SegWit, not who the lead developer's baby momma's sister had a beef with last weekend. Technical merits, not gossiping about people.
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funny part is that all the other 70 differ versions (dozen different brands) are all running on bitcoins mainnet now, and for a long time and not causing issues.
85% of nodes are Core (
https://coin.dance/nodes). The biggest alternative has only 7%.
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those in r/bitcoin point the finger in the other direction when saying a proposal they want.. to make them look like the victim and gain sympathy.
they are the ones playing the psychology games. they are the ones that want dominance not everyone on the same equal playing field.
they are the ones desiring centralised commercial services.
95% of /r/bitcoin posts have nothing to do with scaling. They're about "Oo look I started selling cookies for Bitcoin" and occasionally news about ETF's and regulations pertaining to cryptocurrencies being passed.
i feel sorry for those in r/bitcoin being handed scripts to follow and handed the same scripts by dozens of people to make it seem like its real because more then one person is saying it to them.
if only those at r/bitcoin didnt just play follow the leader games and instead actually read the code and looked passed all the buzzword games that are thrown at them by the script writers.
seems more people are screaming im fud because i mention gmaxwells name. rather than about why or what im actually saying about his plans and desires.
gmaxwell puts code on the internet. You can accept it or reject it, your choice. Nobody's putting a gun to your head and forcing you to run Bitcoin Core (yet 85% choose to do this, the vast majority apparently).
tl;dr - 85% of Bitcoin users voluntarily have chosen to use Bitcoin Core over alternatives. Most of those people don't give a fuck about who gmaxwell is or what he says.