Kodo⚡️#BIP-110

In the software practice, it is possible to write code that compiles and runs correctly, but that fails to fulfil, or even corrupts the business purpose that the software is being written for. Software is not something that runs by itself in its own universe; ir runs in a context - "To Serve Mankind". It's therefore very odd to praise people who write software that harms people. It doesn't matter how clever they are, how hard they work or how good a mentor they've been; if they're doing something horrible and wrong, they're not worthy of praise. They should be condemned. Going forward, anyone who doesn't understand what Bitcoin is for, and who doesn't understand that bitcoin is not, "an experiment", or that "data has no meaning" or that Ordinals are evil, should be kept very far away from working on the reference client, whih in any case, should be in maintenance mode and when update is beneficial (Schnoor signatures for example) updated only when it is clearly demonstrated that performance will not be downgraded and parameters and purpose altered. In other words, all changes and improvements must be for the sole purpose of bitcoin's reason for being. If you want to extend the capabilities of bitcoin, you should fork it and play in your own kitty litter sandbox, where others can join you if they want to. People who do bad things are not "great", and praising them is distasteful and indicative of at worst, a bad character and at best, a painfully naïeve and credulous personality. --beautyon

It’s deeply counterintuitive how hard it is to simply buy and hold Bitcoin. Humans evolved to react. #Bitcoin demands that you don’t. That’s why so many people grasp Bitcoin intellectually yet fail at it behaviorally. The real moat isn’t technical knowledge or clever optimization — it’s emotional discipline sustained over years, not weeks. “Just buy and hold” isn’t simple. It’s minimalistic, adversarial, lonely… and quietly violent to the ego. If it were easy, everyone would do it. --dewmap

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