"The person deciding the new EF leadership is me"

need a feature where I can go back and drop a screenshot into all the debates I've had on here about BTC vs ETH decentralization

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what is a significant protocol change BTC has enshrined recently that was led by Blockstream coordination?

It has to be recently? Blockstream literally owned the BTC/BCH fork and funded almost every core maintainer for years after, far more than EF did for the ETH/ETC fork and onward.

The fact that EF has suddenly become socially relevant in the last few weeks is kind of its own thing.

Narratives aside, they played a similar role.

Coming from the "big blocks" side of the schism, I disagree with that description of events.

Everyone on the "small blocks" side looked at Blockstream as the clear undisputed leader of Bitcoin by accepting BTC as the "legitimate" fork (Blockstream employees were literally the ones who rebranded it as "bitcoin-core" and lead the dev on it at the time). A big part of the schism was precisely this fear, we didn't want Blockstream to have so much power, to ossify the protocol prematurely just to force us down the dead end of Lightning Network -- which is what we got!

Don't forget, this all started when Vitalik got laughed out of the community by the very same Blockstream people.

I think "the market choosing" is a claim we can make in retrospect, but at the time it did not look that way.

Perhaps "the market" will choose Vitalik as the sole supreme sequencer of Ethereum, or perhaps "the market" will choose the "ethereum has 100 bd teams" the EF always talks about and cement EF's irrelevancy.

at the time of the fork there was a legitimate schism in the community, no one was looking to Blockstream as the clear undisputed leader deciding fork choice

there were plenty of influential community members on the other side as well and it just so happens that the market chose the side that Blockstream supported

huge difference between the role they've played in the community and the undisputed guidance the Ethereum Foundation has given to Ethereum over the past decade