it gets more interesting when you look at the sponsors of the devs
there is 3 main sponsors
https://brink.dev/sponsorsChaincodelabs
blockstream
which behind them is the DCG
DCG started with blockstream as the main funder of developers..
after a couple years blockstream founders split off and set up a sister company chaincodelabs
which then they made brink
brink pretends to be an outsider. but then you look at the few top main donators to brink. there is chris hammel of coinbase
then there is the business FTX
i'm a bit skeptical of FTX and any motives they might have since they been in the news with this Voyager scandal:
https://cryptobriefing.com/voyager-says-ftxs-buyout-offer-was-misleading-low-ball-bid-sbf-fires-back/so it's certainly sad that they are involved with bitcoin develpment in anyway.
yep it used to be based on actual bytes not this cludge miscount of vbyte stuff
yeah that always seemed fishy to me how they invented this vbyte imaginary way of determining a transaction's "weight".
i never hear or see people saying how great segwit addresses are because they are saving them so much money...segwit addresses are more confusing and less people understand how they are generated. bech32 addresses even had an error detection bug so they had to invent a new bech32m. such ugliness.
just another example of something that wasn't needed but got shoehorned into bitcoin by powerful interests?
and then we move onto taproot. well that helps integrate liquid into bitcoin more.
and as soon as taproot activated. instead of those devs staying to maintain and bug fix their inventions. they decide its time for them to step aside and step down
when people do that, they should threaten to remove the upgrade. that would be an interesting occurence to see some BIP that got activated, become deactivated later on down the line.
i hope you are now all caught up on all the dev politics of 2015-2022
sounds like bitcoin got under the control of some bad situation.
We are are very small group here who are very into BTC and so on. But most people don't want to spend the time / money and everything else to deal with it. Electrum is fine or a host of others quick and simple wallets.
The reason bitcoin core people dont get hacked is they are technically inclined and they do check hashes and signatures of the stuff they download. Especially bitcoin core. But people that download electrum are probably more numerous and don't check sigs. Not as large a percentage of them anyway. Signature checking is a bit of a pain in the ass anyway. If they could make it quicker it might help but that's another story. But that's why you hear more stories about people downloading a hacked version of Electrum and poof their money is gone.