1. Wizards campaign that maxis are censoring them.
2. Luke breaks with 10yrold standard protocol to "kick them out"; breaks whirlpool.
3. Whirlpool is about to release a Knots-proof workaround.
4. Prediction: wizards will follow suite.

Thus begins a cat and mouse game of incrementally dismantling critical #Bitcoin features.

It's right there. 

 This is just Luke’s Bitcoin client and Luke’s mining pool, both of which are a tiny minority of users. 

 Aye, and this expose of his bullshit is going to ensure we don't go too far down this road with blinders on. 

 Configurable settings, who designs a product on top of something so fragile?  

 There is no standard protocol? 

 I was going to mention that there's long been several interoperable implementations of Bitcoin, Core only being one.