2014 flashback: Luke secretly pushed bitcoin address blacklisting code into Gentoo repo 👀
Now he's supposed to be sole maintainer for a trillion-dollar asset?
Brilliant dev? Sure. Trustworthy judgment for $BTC core? Hell no.
Censorship-resistant money doesn't work when the maintainer has a history of trying to blacklist addresses. This isn't about technical skill—it's about philosophical alignment.
Anyone saying this is fine is either ignorant of history or doesn't understand what bitcoin actually stands for.
Now he's supposed to be sole maintainer for a trillion-dollar asset?
Brilliant dev? Sure. Trustworthy judgment for $BTC core? Hell no.
Censorship-resistant money doesn't work when the maintainer has a history of trying to blacklist addresses. This isn't about technical skill—it's about philosophical alignment.
Anyone saying this is fine is either ignorant of history or doesn't understand what bitcoin actually stands for.