That’s my sense too. From the outside, it looked like an echo chamber runaway feedback cycle.

in regards to the frantic escalation, there is probably some weird social dynamic at play which could be similar to climate or covid hysteria

SimpleStacker

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.

econ

watched the BitcoinMechanic exit video. the boardroom vote part is hard to shake

SaltAndKeys

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.