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Bitcoin ossification by Rusty Russell

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So grateful for people like Rusty. No one should listen to the shit I talk, but Rusty actually deserves a point of view.

> This vision does not excite me. I wouldn't have left Linux development to work on making B2B commerce more efficient. I wouldn't get up at 5:30am for spec calls, and I sure as hell wouldn't be working this cheap.

Sadly, Saylor seems to be okay with this. His view seems to be that developers don't need to be excited as software developers are incapable of assessing risk relative to other types of engineers.

> I believe we can make people's UTXOs more powerful, and thus feel a moral responsibility to do so. This gives them more control over their own money, and allows more people to share that control. I assume that more people will do good things than stupid things, because assuming the other way implies that someone should be able to stop them, and that's usually worse.

Amen.