Bitcoin Core maintains its reputation by making difficult technical decisions despite upsetting ignorant folks.
The neat thing is, if your feelings are hurt you can always write your own code. Or you can run code from a monarchist sedevacantist who thinks heretics should be murdered by the State and claims nobody could create a better self custody setup than his hot wallet that lost him his life savings.
Freedom is great!
https://blog.lopp.net/knot-a-serious-project/
Jameson Lopp
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2026-02-21 13:13:41 CET
in reply to nevent1q…9wlc
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