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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheCharlatan 20h \ on: A perspective on bitcoin governance bitcoin
Nice article, I hope we can at least take some lessons from it. What is clear is that the over reliance on "rough consensus" is not scaling well, and it is questionable if it ever did. It's next to impossible for what you call "the free user" to follow along with the relevant stuff anymore. Too many forums, too many people trying to capture their audience, and few resources capable of distilling what the respective developer groups want and intend. In my view this makes multiple implementations inevitable. I just hope this doesn't lead to serious breakages down the road that might lead to trust being broken in a serious way.
Thank you! And I fully agree with your remarks. It is quite demanding to be a free user. On top of understanding bitcoin well, it requires paying attention, staying up to date, constantly learning and exchanging ideas on an individual level alone. But this culture does exist at meetups, bitdevs, conferences, seminars, telegram and signal groups. These are the people that really run bitcoin imo.
I'm always mindblown when I travel to a new place and find the local bitcoiners who are into the weeds of bitcoin technicals and we can have deep discussions about complex topics.
But it's also clear that bitcoin users are growing much faster than free users, so it's to be expected that there is also users who become vocal a tad too early while still on a false summit, and there is temptation to simply "decide what's best for them". I'm pleading we should try to resist that temptation as much as possible.
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