Soft Fork Activation: Hard Mode -
Method: Have support from zero businesses and almost zero miners.
Benefit: Reassert pleb dominance.
Cost: Spend month getting dunked on by sniveling cowards who wish Bitcoin was controlled by a handful of Mining pools and exchanges.
I’m tired of your insults.
I am providing investigative journalism, everything is sourced with screenshots and URLs. I’m doing it because I care about Bitcoin.
You sit there arrogantly handwaving honest concerns, throwing insults and ad hominems towards people uncovering extremely alarming behavior and governance by Bitcoin’s reference implementation, while being invested in all kinds of grifts, while not even commenting on fucked up emails connecting you to Epstein’s island.
You have fallen completely, Adam. Just sad to see. Now fuck off.
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In May 2019 a prominent Bitcoin Core developer called Matt Corallo posted a Twitter thread calling for DEI recruitment into Bitcoin development.
The same month, John Newbery hired a new co-organiser for Chaincode Labs' developer residency.
Why don’t they just tokenize the oil in the Middle East and transport it across permissionless financial rails, thereby avoiding the Strait of Hormuz altogether
I've spent the last month looking closely at how Bitcoin Core and the network around it has operated the last years.
A blatant cultural and philosophical shift.
Shocking arrogance and contempt for dissent on display around the OP_RETURN uncap. Opposition was reframed as "harassment", "drama" and "brigading". Consensus was simply declared, in the face of massive controversy and opposition.
Bitcoin is imo clearly drifting towards “anything goes if there is a use case out there” relativism.
Bitcoin is supposed to be money. That's the mission. Separating money and state. Not being a data layer adapting to the needs of venture-backed projects.
Staying neutral while Bitcoin drifts in this direction isn't something I can justify anymore. It feels urgent that something is done to counter it.
I was an initial contributor to Blockstream and Adam promised me I’d be listed as a co-founder and be treated the same as other co-founders. Adam broke that promise, betrayed my trust, and cut me out.
I was never involved in Blockstream's fundraising and had no knowledge or contact with most of its investors. I chose not to sue Adam or Blockstream at that time because I was focused on building Knots and other decentralization tools. I also thought it would have been bad for Bitcoin.
These recent revelations about Adam and Epstein Island helps shed light on some of Adam’s hostility toward me and his recent pro-spam gaslighting, but I never knew how bad and how deep the corruption went.
Adam should consider resigning from all positions of authority and apologise to all the developers, investors, and bitcoiners he’s misled along the way.