At this point, if I was a Bitcoin Core developer, I’d just quit and get a better paying job at Google or whatever
Because no matter what you do, you’re under attack. The users have ridiculous expectations, wouldn’t chip in $5/month, but criticize you for making any money off your work and make up conspiracy theories to suggest the exchange that pays you wants to destroy Bitcoin.
You’re supposed to live like a monk, bow your head to any user of the free software you’re working on, never have any opinions of your own which contradict some high priest influencer or book-selling Austrian economist.
You also can’t do anything meaningful due to a culture of not bringing any controversial changes. So your contributions are trivial and hardly a footnote in the history of Bitcoin, while the project at large needs to scale and become more private.
Fuck this shit, life’s too short.
Vlad / Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
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