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My impression is that a very large, probably sufficiently large, group of people were in that camp.
I didn’t understand the frantic escalation. Knots was steadily gaining node share and lots of Core nodes had stopped updating to the controversial version. They might have been able win that hearts and minds campaign.
in regards to the frantic escalation, there is probably some weird social dynamic at play which could be similar to climate or covid hysteria
That’s my sense too. From the outside, it looked like an echo chamber runaway feedback cycle.
Yeah the framing is off. If you're already opting into no-account KYC via Lightning or a coldcard, that's not exactly about 'anti-spam' you're blocking a different mechanism. The change was more about who gets to set these parameters at all.
They should learn a lesson from that. Most people are not against the idea of anti-spam measures, they just didn't agree with how BIP 110 went about it... and so they ignored it and moved on. For whatever reason, BIP110 supporters just seemed really unable to read the room or work collaboratively. That's why even though I've always been sympathetic to their goals, I wasn't on board with their actions.