Also, funny to see Bitcoiners talk about running censoring client implementations for Ordinals.
??? That has been possible for years: https://github.com/greenaddress/abcore
It looks like that is going to happen with https://zerosync.org/ steadily progressing...
Ethereum shares the same philosophy of ensuring that clients are capable of being used on lower end hardware to ensure diversity of nodes.
Ethereum nodes can and are being run on Raspberry PI's + SSD drives.
You can even validate the Ethereum network on a Raspberry PI.
In Ethereum you "validate" instead of "mine" like in bitcoin, this is what keeps the network secure and validating is much more power efficient (99.995% less power use than Bitcoin for). See Proof of Stake vs Proof of Work.
My question to you is: Look at BTC. What kind of specialized, expensive, environmentally unfriendly, ASICS do you need to secure the chain?
Bitcoin Core, long ago, was "purchased" by Blockstream and they started pushing their own agenda for the protocol, and Luke Jr is one of the devs on their payroll.
Yes, of course, you can create your own wallet or node but unless 51% of the network uses it, your protocol changes will never reach the whole network.
It's absolutely not the case. It's more like a conspiracy theory that keeps getting pushed into Bitcoin-related threads at Hacker news (maybe to tilt future analysis?)
If we take a look at the past month of commits from https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse/monthly, the top ten authors are:
- MarcoFalke
- fanquake
- hebasto
- ajtowns
- glozow
- ismaelsaadeq
- TheCharlatan
- instagibbs
- brunoerg
- mzumsande
None of them works at Blockstream.
When you say "long ago", it likely points to the "Bitcoin Cash" incident. Almost every person that knows of Bitcoin Cash thinks that Bitcoin is a scam; almost everyone else laughs at the idea of Bitcoin Cash working.
Long ago, that was also the case: https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/61blfg/blockstream...
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(I am the longest serving engineer at Blockstream).
Like Luke, who made Knots. And other versions exist too.
The real pain comes from the choices in the past to keep bitcoin inclusive. Smaller blocks mean the ability to download and verify on simple cheap hardware.
Have a look at ETH, SOL or EOS. What kind of server park do you need to run those chains?