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People need to understand “why” before they care about “how”.
The reason #Bitcoin development has stagnated so much is because Devs don’t do the “why”, they only do the “how” And they assume people will fill in the “why” blanks themselves.
That might have worked when it was run on a small mailing list and Devs and noderunners were mostly the same people but nowadays many noderunners are less technical, their incentives and motives are very different from today’s devs and until devs start speaking TO them, in THEIR language, nothing is going to go anywhere.
Most of all, I want to hear why whatever you choose to write about is hard. Why don’t we have p2p mining pools that work well? Why is self custodial lightning hard? Why is lightning liquidity hard? Why are covenants without more op codes hard? Why is privacy hard?
We have a lot of content that’s like “it’ll be amazing when this-cool-thing-thats-theoretical-and-a-decade-away exists” and “this is exactly how this thing works.” I want to know what’s in the way between where we are now and where we want to go.
Write about what Bitcoiners need to attack - not how, but what and why. Layout the unsolved problems without ramming a pet solution down my throat.
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