BTC Core stands as the crooked embodiment of betrayal—a clumsy caricature of what Bitcoin was meant to be. Satoshi Nakamoto didn’t hand the world a tool for centralised elites to choke. He gave us a system that promised freedom, one grounded in immutability, scalability, and decentralisation. And here comes BTC Core, with its tech priests and gatekeepers, dismantling those promises brick by brick, pissing on the foundation while pretending it’s an improvement.
First, immutability. “Set in stone,” Satoshi wrote. Not a polite suggestion, not a flexible roadmap, but a bedrock principle. Yet BTC Core treats the protocol like it’s some playground experiment, carving it up and tinkering like mad scientists drunk on their own arrogance. Consensus? Broad consensus? They spit on it. They’ve swapped out Bitcoin’s backbone for something malleable, fragile, a Frankenstein monster subject to the whims of a select few devs playing gods. Each fork, each so-called improvement, is a hammer blow to trust. If users can’t rely on the system being what it claims to be, what the hell is left? Faith in a handful of coders? Satoshi designed Bitcoin to eliminate trust, not to shift it from one centralised power to another.
And scalability. This is the most grotesque part of the farce. Bitcoin was meant to be electronic cash—a system for the masses, from the smallest street vendor to the largest multinational. High transaction volumes, low fees, seamless global payments: that was the dream. BTC Core murdered that dream with its artificial constraints. Block size limits? Segregated Witness? A convoluted web of second-layer solutions? It’s like telling someone to build a skyscraper and handing them a child’s toy blocks. BTC Core doesn’t want scalability. They want control. Their model, riddled with delays and high fees, isn’t about enabling direct, peer-to-peer transactions. It’s about forcing dependence on third parties, pushing people into custodial systems that siphon away the power Satoshi sought to return to individuals.
Now decentralisation. If BTC Core’s actions weren’t so destructive, their claims would be laughable. They tout decentralisation while consolidating power within their little technocratic fiefdom. Governance, in their hands, is a sham—decisions made behind closed doors, rubber-stamped by a chorus of sycophants. They have turned what was meant to be a distributed, open system into a playground for a privileged few. The so-called full nodes they fetishise are a mirage, offering the illusion of participation while the real decisions remain firmly in the hands of a tiny clique. BTC Core’s centralisation isn’t just a deviation from Bitcoin’s promise; it’s a betrayal of the very principles that gave Bitcoin its soul.
These deviations aren’t just technical missteps. They’re breaches of fiduciary-like obligations, acts of unjust enrichment that strip value from the community under the guise of progress.
BTC Core has enriched itself and its ecosystem of favoured intermediaries by diverting Bitcoin from its original path, turning what should be a tool of empowerment into a mechanism for gatekeeping and control.
Satoshi envisioned a world where financial freedom wasn’t a privilege but a right, where power flowed from the individual upward, not from a central core downward. BTC Core, in their hubris, has twisted that vision into its opposite. They have taken the promise of Bitcoin—a system built to decentralise power, enable scalable transactions, and stand immutable against corruption—and turned it into a tool for their own enrichment and control.
They haven’t just failed. They’ve betrayed.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Nov 18, 2024
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1858412701250437534?t=zt6qOzGNYVvjm4m0TZPt4w&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2074
First, immutability. “Set in stone,” Satoshi wrote. Not a polite suggestion, not a flexible roadmap, but a bedrock principle. Yet BTC Core treats the protocol like it’s some playground experiment, carving it up and tinkering like mad scientists drunk on their own arrogance. Consensus? Broad consensus? They spit on it. They’ve swapped out Bitcoin’s backbone for something malleable, fragile, a Frankenstein monster subject to the whims of a select few devs playing gods. Each fork, each so-called improvement, is a hammer blow to trust. If users can’t rely on the system being what it claims to be, what the hell is left? Faith in a handful of coders? Satoshi designed Bitcoin to eliminate trust, not to shift it from one centralised power to another.
And scalability. This is the most grotesque part of the farce. Bitcoin was meant to be electronic cash—a system for the masses, from the smallest street vendor to the largest multinational. High transaction volumes, low fees, seamless global payments: that was the dream. BTC Core murdered that dream with its artificial constraints. Block size limits? Segregated Witness? A convoluted web of second-layer solutions? It’s like telling someone to build a skyscraper and handing them a child’s toy blocks. BTC Core doesn’t want scalability. They want control. Their model, riddled with delays and high fees, isn’t about enabling direct, peer-to-peer transactions. It’s about forcing dependence on third parties, pushing people into custodial systems that siphon away the power Satoshi sought to return to individuals.
Now decentralisation. If BTC Core’s actions weren’t so destructive, their claims would be laughable. They tout decentralisation while consolidating power within their little technocratic fiefdom. Governance, in their hands, is a sham—decisions made behind closed doors, rubber-stamped by a chorus of sycophants. They have turned what was meant to be a distributed, open system into a playground for a privileged few. The so-called full nodes they fetishise are a mirage, offering the illusion of participation while the real decisions remain firmly in the hands of a tiny clique. BTC Core’s centralisation isn’t just a deviation from Bitcoin’s promise; it’s a betrayal of the very principles that gave Bitcoin its soul.
These deviations aren’t just technical missteps. They’re breaches of fiduciary-like obligations, acts of unjust enrichment that strip value from the community under the guise of progress.
BTC Core has enriched itself and its ecosystem of favoured intermediaries by diverting Bitcoin from its original path, turning what should be a tool of empowerment into a mechanism for gatekeeping and control.
Satoshi envisioned a world where financial freedom wasn’t a privilege but a right, where power flowed from the individual upward, not from a central core downward. BTC Core, in their hubris, has twisted that vision into its opposite. They have taken the promise of Bitcoin—a system built to decentralise power, enable scalable transactions, and stand immutable against corruption—and turned it into a tool for their own enrichment and control.
They haven’t just failed. They’ve betrayed.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Nov 18, 2024
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1858412701250437534?t=zt6qOzGNYVvjm4m0TZPt4w&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2074
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