Totally agree we need Nostr or something else more public and verifiable for these discussions. If I want to be charitable I think a lot of this stems from honest misunderstandings and garbled posts being misinterpreted. Chaincode should publicly confirm if they sent the author a cease and desist letter, and the author should clarify and disavow that they threatened or ever intend to threaten anyone in Bitcoin dev with a lawsuit. 

 We should also keep in context some private conversations are a sad but logical consequence of the CSW lawsuits. We should still push for open discussions but I just ask we acknowledge that devs are afraid of being sued for fair reasons and until the COPA case is done I don’t blame them.