Dear Gloria Zhao, On behalf of #Bitcoin maximalists worldwide, I want to express our deepest gratitude for your priceless, unwitting service in exposing the terminal decay inside what was once Bitcoin #Core and is now more fittingly called “Coretard.” No measured technical argument, no patient explanation from the filter side could ever have achieved in a decade what your brief public appearances accomplished in a handful of videos: you single-handedly obliterated any remaining pretense of apolitical, competence-driven development. Your visibly confused ramblings, sanctimonious ideological posturing, and openly stated desire to “transition” Bitcoin into a progressive social-experiment token have done more to awaken the broader ecosystem than a thousand blog posts or whitepapers ever could. You have convincingly demonstrated to anyone still paying attention that something profoundly rotten has taken root behind the formerly respected — but now irrevocably compromised — closed doors of Core. Having you as one of the most prominent public faces of modern Core development is the single most effective anti-Core propaganda the #Knots side could have ever dreamed of. Whether your colleagues have noticed it yet or not, you and the activist clique that surrounds and celebrates you have already signed Core’s death certificate in the only place it ultimately matters: the court of public opinion. So please, from the bottom of our hearts — keep going exactly as you are. History will record you as the accelerant that finally persuaded the broader Bitcoin world to abandon the sinking, woke-infested husk you so proudly pilot. With sincere and everlasting thanks, A Bitcoin Maxi who genuinely owes you one P.S. Thanks to you, humanity’s lexicon has been permanently enriched with a new and instantly understandable term: Coretard. Your legacy is secure. --dewmap

Bitcoiner ≡ Critical Thinker The Epstein scandal exposes the rot: guilt by association torpedoes the push to bloat #OP_RETURN. #Bitcoin lives on don’t trust, verify—not deference to experts, institutions, or reputations. The real crisis isn’t a single scandal, but systemic decay within Core: lost humility, eroded rigor, and the collapse of adversarial scrutiny. Red flags are everywhere, dismissed with smug appeals to “the experts have spoken.” This is cultural capture, driven by complacency and blind faith. Bitcoiners don’t grant authority—they constrain it. They demand transparency and design for trust failure. Core’s reckless dismantling of Chesterton’s Fence—obliterating Bitcoin’s narrow optimum by orders of magnitude—has fractured the ecosystem. It’s appalling judgment, plain and simple. And those “earnest” influencers rushing to Core’s defense, waving away red flags as nonsense? They are vectors of the disease—mistaking organic outrage for heresy. What kind of Bitcoiner replaces don’t trust, verify with believe the elites—elites whose obvious lack of judgment has eroded the very trust that Bitcoiners worldwide were willing, in good faith, to extend? Confront the drift. Purge the complacency. Reclaim the ethos: Don’t trust. Verify. --dewmap