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 just to be clear, imagine if every email client had to update fro "important changes" in the protocol every other month (being generous here, to compare with retarded modern shit)

no, SMTP and POP have been stable since maybe as early as 1984 or so

why should this be any different for #bitcoin or #nostr or anything else

have you looked at how frequently XMPP has changed in the last 20 years?

what about Tor? I think they made two breaking changes

golang... they are super chads of design... ZERO BREAKING CHANGES

i am a long time student of this stuff and this is why i am a #golang maxi and why bitcoin impresses me, it is the same reason. well designed, doesn't need additions, doesn't need changes, can do things that we didn't think of a decade ago, that we didn't realise it could do, because we didn't think it would be even feasible