Unchained · Thursday, August 6, 2026
A speaker argues that the resistance to Bitcoin upgrades and changes, particularly from miners and large holders, may have contributed to the ecosystem's security issues. The sentiment of 'rough is forever' has allegedly stifled necessary development, even affecting user wallets.
“And I think the Maxis always, they're sort of like they overmeemed themselves into this, you know, verify don't trust thing where they're like, well, we verified once, you know, like that the idea that they have to do it again, and it wasn't perpetual is like something that I think is like a, especially the Bitcoin developers, obviously Bitcoin development basically non-existent nowadays.”
“But the the people who kind of stopped a lot of the development, like the miners and large holders, they in some sense are part of the problem here.”
“Because I feel like a lot of people trying to make upgrades, make changes, and it was like, no, nope, Bitcoin doesn't need to be changed, we're done, rough is forever. And that like even applied to user's wallets, whatever.”