Oddbean new post about login | logout DEVS DO NOT DICTATE BITCOIN PROTOCOL CONSENSUS. USERS ULTIMATELY CHOOSE WHETHER THEY UPDATE THEIR NODES. THE PROTOCOL IS INCREDIBLY RESISTANT TO CHANGE BY DESIGN. EMBRACE IT. GOOD MORNING.
Users must be highly knowledgeable. We are early.
BITCOIN REQUIRES PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. FEATURE NOT A BUG.
Responsibility is freedom. Few.
Good morning. Straight to trending for you.
True anyone can fork or add upgrades whenever they want. There is a PSYOP going on against open source devs. The truth of the matter is that suits want to appoint their devs and rewrite code according to their business model. Roger ver failed. They will surely fail.
GOOD MORNING 🫡
But users can be gaslight. The questions is how gaslight resistant Bitcoin is.
NOSTR USERS NOT ALGOS ULTIMATELY CHOOSE IF THEY SAY GM EVERYDAY
That's certainly one of the good things about bitcoin but sometimes bad actor(s) can exploit the protocol by gaslighting people in the name of free market for a long time until people realize that it's a SCAM. https://m.primal.net/ITts.png
GOOD MORNING NOSTR, WEN ALL CAPS FOR ALL NOTES ALL THE TIME?
Gm 🫡
GM! But don’t you think that most people run their nodes with Umbrel or similar providers and they will update as soon as they see an update is available? I guess people are so used to update their apps on the their smartphones because usually these updates bring improvements. People might think it’s the same with Bitcoin updates and update as soon there is one.
That's a narrative fast becoming a cope.
YOU HAVE LOST THE PLOT IF YOU THINK THE ABOVE IS COPE.
Most users and node runners have no idea what the fuck they are doing
GM! GREAT ODE TO🫡
GOOD MORNING
This is why forks are not some scary boogeyman. They require overwhelming support. So we only get them if almost everyone wants them
Thomas Jefferson wrote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Quite likely applies to the Bitcoin protocol somehow. Every so often, power grabs will occur, and battles will ensue
This. There is no central place to “lobby” or push for any change; this is a feature not a bug.
The danger is gaslighting the nodes that they need this and that malicious upgrade. After all, mass media as a tool convinced 7bn people to lock down for a non-pandemic. The biggest danger to bitcoin is constant upgrades that make the attack surface bigger and bigger until its so full of holes that bitcoin becomes useless.
and stack the fucking sats! https://m.primal.net/IVDq.png
