A key detail that got lost in this whole debate: Core devs don't believe JPEGs and shitcoins on Bitcoin to be spam.
Notice how individuals like @callebtc, @L0RINC and even @adam3us never give a straight answer about what spam even is, always hiding their answers in rhetoric and semantics.
The reason? They know it's impopular and would further taint the optics of what Core is trying to do with v30 and beyond.
@BTCWealthWar@sunny051488@SolarEnergyBTC Charles Hoskinson threw the towel live on Spaces just now. Not a spectacle like Bitboy's, but the capitulation in the space is very real. Sunny is right.
@bobvankirk Saylor is and has always been a Wallstreet guy that understands Bitcoin extremely well. Yet, Bitcoiners are acting so irrationally about this, wanting him to be some kind of maxi Ancap dude, something he never was.
@bobvankirk@bobvankirk@publord Notice how they throw some "aliens" bullshit out there whenever something is about to escalate in the world. Their goal is exactly to make people feel worn out and too dazed via sheer excess of information and stimulus.
Full-node efficiency and ease of use being number 1. The social layer closely at number 2.
Bitcoin development and culture are peak fiat at the moment, full of VCs pretending to be cypherpunks; the normalization of economically illiterate key protocol developers; an inviting stance to shitcoins and affinity scams which also has a massive conflict of interest side to it with the biggest donors of Core also being heavily invested in the many Ethereum-like layers currently being built on Bitcoin; pay to play developers and influencers funded by Wallstreet/Silicon Valley to push a variety of paper Bitcoin products, the influencing of development and an overall reckless scalability roadmap and agenda not seen since the block size wars... v30 being a combination of all these elements resulting in a highly questionable implementation.
You're free to run and support what you want, but for me, the red flags are just too many to ignore.