if there is an economic desire for these protocols to exist, the job of core devs is to make sure they do it in the least harmful way possible to decentralization. it's really that simple.
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So who's desire is that exactly and how much do they pay you for their desires?
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So this is a business now.
@jb55 That’s a massive oversimplification. Bitcoin is money. There’s economic desire for all sorts of non-financial functionality in the base layer that will ultimately destroy Bitcoin. Core devs and node runners should fight spammers to protect the Bitcoin base layer. Miners should too if they have a long-term perspective, but unfortunately many are willing to mine spam for a quick buck. Financial use-cases such as Lightning should be supported. Anything else that needs to leverage the security of Bitcoin can (like Lightning) be built and funded as a Layer 2 or side-chain without impacting the base layer. The people who want to store large amounts of arbitrary data on the base chain instead of just a tiny hash that proves their L2 data is valid are freeloaders who don’t want to fund a distributed layer 2 and instead want node runners to fund their secure distributed storage needs.
Bitcoin is money. Core devs job is to keep Bitcoin safe and sound as money. Definitely not to support whatever people have a financial interest in doing. People have a financial interest in doing all kinds of things. Core devs job is to defend our money against all those financial interests that threaten Bitcoin's ability to function efficiently as money, now and in the future.
We definitely don't need to reproduce the fiat casino on Bitcoin.