Oddbean new post about login | logout A lot of people talk about Bitcoin Ossification. Today Steve Lee, Lead at Spiral rejoins me to expand on why this is the wrong idea. We also talk about the recent situation with bitcoin mining pool centralisation and what is driving it. https://stephanlivera.com/episode/569/
They sound similar but ossification, being conservative with changes to bitcoin that could have unintended consequences, is very different from ostrichification, which is the reason you’re all reading this. nostr:note17sqml9ypeq0scldjpmlqnp66gyxn7kgy70hm20esruf9lyuqrxaqmhyp67
I do struggle with this topic in Bitcoin. I am on the ossification side but I do understand the points brought by the developers of code themselves. I think in general everybody agrees that updates will need to be made, I just see a lot of eagerness and push to release new code into Bitcoin, and it needs to be acknowledged that that can be dangerous (same as not putting code). Maybe the way that code is pushed to Bitcoin stops being done as it was previously done and it takes slower approach. Not ossification but code development time preference x)
Did you listen to the episode though? Perhaps "Slow and Steady" is a better idea than straight up "ossification"
This episode was really great! Stephan and his pod have been doing a tremendous work at informing Bitcoiners about nuanced topics for years. Drop him some sats nostr:note17sqml9ypeq0scldjpmlqnp66gyxn7kgy70hm20esruf9lyuqrxaqmhyp67
Listen to @moneyball and reject ossification nostr:nevent1qqs0gqdljjqus8cv0keqalsfsadyzrfltyz08ma48ucp7yjljwqpnwspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzqx07l4lnnjtd9lmklplhvfaw0y29hjt3mz4jxgzsqkfe5k5380p0qvzqqqqqqya6u5f9