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gm, believing that you must act, or else Bitcoin will die, is the core symptom of Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome. Follow what you passionately believe in, but don’t let it consume you. And if you need reassurance that not giving in to emotions is the right path, just look at the history of everyone who fell to BDS (Roger Ver probably being the most famous example). In the long run, it's far better to focus on your proof of work than on "fixing" what others are doing.

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If this is in response to Bitcoin Core vs Knots, then sorry but this message is disingenuous. The Bitcoin community responding to, adapting against, and being vigilant towards any and all threats and vulnerabilities against the network is the only reason why Bitcoin has survived this long, even from things that crashed it and almost spelled its "death".
Core should have taken this advice much earlier. Users aren't forced to use a certain Bitcoin client. If not acting is not upgrading to 30, I'm all for this approach. At the same time, signalling the client policy you agree with also doesn't harm anything. To the extent that this is acting, it's neither a radical action, nor overly impactful. But it takes some power away from those acting without forethought (or worse, with it).