I just sat down and watched this debate between Jimmy Song and Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin ossification. I don’t even know where to start as far as the absurdity and broken “logic” in every argument Jimmy made in this debate. So I won’t try, I will focus on one specific line of argumentation he made.
“Money shouldn’t change, it should be predictable.”
He specifically spoke along these lines in regards to “letting things mature” in this space from a technical point of view, and implicitly stating that upgrades to Bitcoin “pulls the rug out from under” existing developers building things.
Does Jimmy not understand how Bitcoin upgrades work? We have been using softforks for over a decade specifically to address the concern of backwards compatibility. i.e. being able to say with 100% certainty that everything that has been built to date will continue functioning in exactly the same way. All upgrades to Bitcoin are opt-in, everything that existed prior will
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