<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1qg5r4lja0e34twn6psh49qlrzj0k28dtxxw0k4fag6sarqprfm2s7nqm4r</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1qg5r4lja0e34twn6psh49qlrzj0k28dtxxw0k4fag6sarqprfm2s7nqm4r</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2022-06-04&#xA;📝 Original message:Core development is not a hackathon project.&#xA;&#xA;None of the quoted following items are features or responsibilities of the&#xA;Bitcoin software, nor Core developers.&#xA;&#xA;Quoted:&#xA;&#34;- Developers can build interesting projects with real demand in market.&#xA;- Students learn Sapio and not just solidity.&#xA;- Better tooling could be available for application developers.&#xA;- Maybe we see bitcoin developer hackathons in different countries.&#xA;- Demand for block space might increase, it wont be just exchanges and&#xA;coinjoin.&#xA;- Funding of bitcoin developers and projects might improve. Wont need to&#xA;convince a few people for grants.&#34;&#xA;&#xA;Whether you are a child or an attacker, none of us should care, but CTV,&#xA;nor any change to Bitcoin software, will never be justifiable simply&#xA;because you and some of your friends think it is totally cool and might&#xA;make more people like you or give your friends funding.&#xA;&#xA;Please stop making noise about CTV, this is not a place for spamming.&#xA;&#xA;--&#xA;John Carvalho&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 1:00 PM &lt;&#xA;bitcoin-dev-request at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:39:34 +0000&#xA;&gt; From: alicexbt &lt;alicexbt at protonmail.com&gt;&#xA;&gt; To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion&#xA;&gt;         &lt;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt;&#xA;&gt; Subject: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin covenants are inevitable&#xA;&gt; Message-ID:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; &lt;QOWIpROGDv5HHP2GsDiSOsTJ9TVZhFeSP3C03_e2Z3XtOKC_4N5GJtxbdlxuhErvhLZXo1Rn_7SWAQ9XRPwHFuYyArZryTVENefDZuGTAYA=@&#xA;&gt; protonmail.com&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Note: This email is an opinion and not an attack on bitcoin&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Covenants on bitcoin will eventually be implemented with a soft fork. CTV&#xA;&gt; is the easiest and best possible way OP_TX looks good as well. Apart from&#xA;&gt; the technical merits, covenants will improve a few other things:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; - Developers can build interesting projects with real demand in market.&#xA;&gt; - Students learn Sapio and not just solidity.&#xA;&gt; - Better tooling could be available for application developers.&#xA;&gt; - Maybe we see bitcoin developer hackathons in different countries.&#xA;&gt; - Demand for block space might increase, it wont be just exchanges and&#xA;&gt; coinjoin.&#xA;&gt; - Funding of bitcoin developers and projects might improve. Wont need to&#xA;&gt; convince a few people for grants.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; **Why covenants are not contentious?**&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Some people may write paragraphs about CTV being contentious, spread&#xA;&gt; misinformation and do all types of drama, politics etc. on social media but&#xA;&gt; there are zero technical NACKs for CTV. We have discussed other covenant&#xA;&gt; proposals in detail on mailing list and IRC meetings with an open minded&#xA;&gt; approach.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; All the developers that participated in the discussion are either okay&#xA;&gt; with CTV or OP_TX or covenants in general.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; **How and when should covenants be implemented in Bitcoin?**&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; I don&#39;t think we should wait for years anticipating a proposal that&#xA;&gt; everyone will agree on or argue for years to pretend changes are hard in&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin. We should improve the review process for soft fork BIPs and share&#xA;&gt; honest opinions with agreement, disagreement on technical merits.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; I prefer BIP 8 or improved BIP 8 for soft fork but I won&#39;t mind anything&#xA;&gt; else being used if that improves Bitcoin. Covenants implemented in Bitcoin&#xA;&gt; before the next cycle would provide opportunity for developers to build&#xA;&gt; interesting things during the bear market. Ossification supporters also&#xA;&gt; believe there is some window that will close soon, maybe doing changes&#xA;&gt; considering each case individually will be a better approach. CTV is not a&#xA;&gt; rushed soft fork, less people followed the research and it was not&#xA;&gt; mentioned on social media repeatedly by the respected developers like other&#xA;&gt; soft forks.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; /dev/fd0&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Sent with Proton Mail secure email.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; ------------------------------&#xA;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20220604/997f931f/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>