What is going on with Bitcoin Core? Core devs used to be dedicated to remaining neutral.
Now if you point out a conflict of interest, your comments are marked as abusive.
This is a really, really bad look :(
Someone pushing for a major change to Bitcoin is affiliated with a company whose current exploit of Bitcoin was the motivation for the change.
Pointing this out on the github discussion has resulted in me being banned.
I would encourage anyone running Bitcoin Core to do their own research on this one before upgrading when released. The horrible precedent it sets and the combined risk of a centralized Core + centralized mining pools creates an untenable situation (Op_Return is a distraction!).
If a dev "fixes" a bug by changing the documentation to redefine a feature's purpose, he or she probably won't have an issue "fixing" damage to bitcoin by redefining bitcoin's purpose.
Several core supporters have pointed me to Pieter Wuille’s recent StackExchange post[0] explaining core’s rationale for raising the default opreturn limit 1250x from 80 bytes to 100,000 bytes in the upcoming bitcoin core v30. I don’t know where else to publish this response,
1) is PR 32406 trying to solve a problem?
2) On a scale from 1 to 10, how bad is the problem PR 32406 is attempting to solve?
3) how much of a problem is the current mutiny against core on a scale from 1 to 10?
If your answer to (2) is much lower than your answer to (3), then