Unchained · Thursday, August 6, 2026
Tom suggests that the Bitcoin maximalist developer community may not prioritize rigorous security practices like regular audits, drawing a parallel to their skepticism towards certain dietary advice. He points to historical exchange hacks stemming from poor entropy generation as evidence of this trend.
“I I actually think there is a thing about the Bitcoin Maxi developer community where they don't believe in a lot of, you know, it's like it's like the seed oil thing. It's like, it's like they're the RFC of security practices. They don't get seed oil. They don't get assassinated. They don't do audits.”
“I remember, I remember there were a bunch of exchange hacks for bad entropy generation historically, and they were all like these like Bitcoin only exchanges that didn't have to do entropy generation for multiple different types of keys and different signatures and stuff.”