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An intriguing episode in which

explains that the BIP process is not necessarily technical in nature (and in fact, often political), often takes ~10 years to work, and has no competition for or feedback from the end user. But "there is a process".

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WBD503 - Why are Bitcoin Forks Contentious with Adam Back (@adam3us) . We discuss: - Covenants & smart contracts within #Bitcoin - Building consensus for soft forks & their activation - Why #Bitcoin is hard to change - The collapse of Luna whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/why-ar

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Plus Peter says all kinds of funny things, like "what is the BIP process" , "trust, don't verify" (I will buy a shirt), "what is an op code", and then in the same breath starts commenting on CTV or SegWit. What do we call this type of thing... the "opinion-less person's opinion"?

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not how i'd put it; just describing in a hopefully realistic way, people try to focus on tech. i suspect it's a bit hard for bitcoin to adopt tech with economic/fuzzy security tradeoffs re sidechain issue we both try to move forward for some years now. and so far things like CT

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IMO political development will come unless ossification precedes it

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trust the process! lol