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> I don't want to make fun of this young lady, because it's not her fault. I agree, however, I'm not making fun of the way she looks or a disability. I'm making fun of the fact that she's unqualified for the job and knows it. She isn't a cashier at Burger King. Her actions have downstream effects on millions of people. > because it's not her fault. It is her fault. No one forced her to take a job she isn't qualified for and make ~$400K a year to turn Bitcoin into arbitrary data storage. Making fun of her being unqualified might prompt a few people to switch to Knots, but we still need more, viable implementations. View quoted note →

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Kudzai Kutukwa 🛡️ 2 weeks ago

At the very least she is unprepared as you said but to me she is a bad actor that is now being used to start the process of weakening bitcoin

Control-Plane Capital 2 weeks ago

And of course, to clarify. It's not exclusively her fault. Most of all, it is our own fault for being so complacent. We should have seen this coming. View quoted note →

Jerome Powell 21iQ 40TPW 2 weeks ago

#Enshitcoinification

Garbage nsec 🛡️ 2 weeks ago

Since when is it someone's fault for accepting an interesting job paying $400K a year? You could say it's the employer's fault for offering the job if the person isn't right for it, but to say it's that person's fault for taking it, come on, not taking it would make one at fault of being totally bonkers.

Control-Plane Capital 2 weeks ago

↩ replying to Garbage nsec

I didn't write that it's exclusively her fault. If it wasn't her, it would've been another captured developer, so obviously her employer is at fault as well. You are still responsible for your actions. If I were offered to pilot an airplane but knew I wasn't qualified I'd decline the job offer. If I accepted the job offer and crashed the airplane because I'm incompetent, would my employer be exclusively at fault, or would I carry some responsibility as well. The same applies to ruining a mission-critical project such as Bitcoin. You aren't absolved of responsibility because your employer offered you a job without you being qualified. And as I already wrote, it is mostly our own fault for allowing ~100% of nodes to run a single implementation for so long. View quoted note →

Garbage nsec 🛡️ 2 weeks ago

↩ replying to Control-Plane Capital

Sure, but flying an airplane is much more of a binary thing. Everyone on on a given plane wants pretty the same thing out of the ride. Bitcoin, on the other hand, so many groups that each want different things from it, from every aspect of it. She could rightly conclude she's qualified under the demands of one of those groups, and so fair enough to her.

Control-Plane Capital 2 weeks ago

↩ replying to Garbage nsec

Yes, if the community cannot widely agree on what Bitcoin is (which seems to be the case), then she's not at fault and her employer is also not at fault. They just adopted the arbitrary data storage definition for Bitcoin so that's what they're optimizing for. This is basically the coordination tax I wrote about in my last article.