Bitcoin is money. It closes down some ways people are or could abuse the network. Software is a game of providing ways to do things while keeping it as simple as possible. The least possible thing that achieves the intended result is best. To take Taproot as an example (what GrassFedBitcoin (nprofile…566r) is saying here) it was intended to enable lightning without shoving the whole script into the transaction. That is getting hijacked to shove other data in. 110 closes that hole (the inscriptions hack) while preserving the intended use case. In general, ossification and simplicity are good at the base layer. That's what makes it good to build on. Least possible thing, least possible attack surface, least possible abuse, least possible change. Nobody wants to build on sand.
Tightening the bolts without breaking anything is exactly what responsible software maintenance looks like.
Also, I just like the idea that an intolerant minority can say "No, it's money, you are not hijacking Bitcoin to do other things. Don't touch my money." Developer capture has been a huge problem in open source software and core devs do not rule the network. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. Minority veto is good.
I've been coding since the 80s and building software professionally for >25 years and that's my take.
I'm running Knots with110.
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2026-02-17 22:41:39 UTC
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