UTXO Alien

I've held off commenting on Core vs Knots, because my general position is that Bitcoiners should be allowed to do whatever they want – I'm in it for censorship resistant money and an open source, decentralized protocol. I have no interest in telling others what they should do, what software they should run, etc. I'm just focused on building good hardware (and software) to empower Bitcoiners to secure the keys to their coins and further stay safe and secure online. That being said...I've been a Bitcoiner for almost 12 years now and have some to realize that Luke has some kind of mental illness. Not the "on the spectrum" stuff, but actually some kind of mental illness. And I think he's convinced a lot of Bitcoiners that he is some kind of autistic genius. I think a lot of amazing Bitcoiners (so many of whom I follow) have been misled. I'm not technical enough at the protocol level to give an in depth opinion, but my general opinion is if you have to censor others' use of the protocol – because you don't like what they are doing – then you are in the wrong. It's a slippery slope from that to censoring transactions you don't agree with. Simple. These leaked messages are completely off the rails and are a major threat to Bitcoin. I thought the next big threat would be quantum (in many years from now), but it turns out the big threat is a potential network schism led by a mentally ill individual. The "loss" of Luke's personal coins and the corresponding "hack" of his server are weird. I'll post below a couple of my old tweets. Effectively, he was begging for money in 2021, implying that he was poor, before it later came out that he had over 200 coins (which were then later stolen...). The whole thing stinks. This guy should not be your hero. You've been misled. The Bitcoin Core project is not perfect. But the core developers have enabled Bitcoin to grow to one of the world's largest financial assets while remaining decentralized. Not a single other crypto project has done that. It's slow moving. It's contentious. It's imperfect. It's driven by numerous personalities. But it's worked so far. Better to get involved in Core than try to blow everything up that we've worked so hard on for so long. Thank you for your attention to this matter.