Someone posted a Youtube video with this earlier today. I edited the text slightly for flow to read. I think this is an important stance. This is an addendum to Saifdean Ammous' Open Letter to BIP300/301.

A firm ‘no’.

This should be default frame of all Bitcoin node Runners.

The burden of proof for any proposed Core upgrade or feature is on the proposer to make clear your case for consensus change. If you have good faith, then you have work to do to prove this burden.

If you do not make clear the specific benefits of your feature, if you do not make clear the specific cost of your feature, if you whine about a covert social contract being violated, if you make bad arguments if you engage in trolling, if you misrepresent opposing arguments, if you gloss over the true cost of your feature, if you hide the true purpose of your feature, if you conflate, if you gaslight, if you astro-turf, if you lie, if you engage in bad faith, if you compromise Bitcoin…

Then you have earned that firm ‘no’.

Nothing more, nothing less. Just a simple, no. The default answer was already ‘no’ but now you've earned it, by satisfying any one of these conditions.

We do appreciate the developers who work hard, and we love you for maintaining this Walled Garden of freedom and hope but we will not submit what Bitcoin needs to what you want. Thank you for enduring, we know none of this is easy, Bitcoin is hard.

There is zero appetite for any kind of soft Fork at this time, let alone a minor activated soft Fork. Indeed the sentiment of a minor activated soft Fork is extremely negative in principle at this time, especially given recent events surrounding Taproot activation and related consequences.

Most of you are hard-working good faith actors following the default mining strategy of Nakamoto consensus, and you likely don't have the time to concern yourself with recent proposed soft Forks that have little impact on your bottom line, but, please keep your eyes open and be ready to switch your mining pool affiliation, if necessary.

Keep your mining pool options wide open, to the miners and Mining pools that know better and are choosing to around, we see you, you will be called out, and you will find out, in more ways than one.

To the Bitcoin community at Large, run a node, learn what it means to run a node and the implications for you and the Bitcoin Network at Large.

No one is in control of the Bitcoin Network, but, Bitcoin node Runners can have a say, so be one.

Posted 10:22 AM Sept 6, 2023 by @FEEaACH on X [Edited slightly for flow]