The Bitcoin Core Project recently released a statement on Bitcoin core development and transaction relay strategies, suggesting a non – interference approach to the use of the Bitcoin network, which has sparked intense dissatisfaction and division within the Bitcoin community. Here are the views of some community members:
Samson Mow, CEO of JAN3: He believes that Bitcoin Core developers have been gradually changing the network, and the current situation is bad. He implies that the developers’ actions are inappropriate.Jameson Lopp, Founder of Casa: He points out that Bitcoin Core developers are a group. Their statement that they cannot force anyone to run code they don’t like seems like a public – relations move. However, when there is no unified message and only a group of independent developers make statements, this public – relations effort performs poorly.
Bitcoin Developer Carl Horton: He emphasizes that Bitcoin is a “currency,” not a “barrel,” “store,” or any general – purpose data storage. It is a peer – to – peer electronic – cash system. He implies that the current situation of the Bitcoin network being used for other purposes beyond its original intention is a problem.
Bitcoin Core Developer Luke Dashjr: He claims that the transaction – relay goals listed in the statement are basically wrong. Predicting which information will be mined is a centralized goal, and transaction relay mainly aims to predict Bitcoin transactions to be mined. Helping the spread of spam is harmful. He may be referring to issues such as “inscriptions” clogging the Bitcoin network.
In addition, in previous related events, there have also been divisions within the Bitcoin community regarding the views of core developers. For example, when core developers proposed fixing the Taproot vulnerability to ban Bitcoin inscriptions, some people supported it, believing that inscriptions were like spam clogging the network, while others opposed it, believing that the developers had no right to decide unilaterally, and the existence of inscriptions also brought activity to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
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