Samson Mow Slams Bitcoin Core Devs: contempt for users threatens Network Future

A dispute has arisen within the Bitcoin community, in which Jan3 CEO Samson Mow Bitcoin Core developers accuses users with contempt, and warning that such attitudes can endanger the long-term success of the network.

MOW emphasized that no project can succeed if his builders look down on the people they have to serve.

MOW’s indictment against developers behavior

In a long -term message published on X, the BTC lawyer assertions The core problem of that Bitcoin is not only technical but deeply cultural. He claimed that a toxic position in some developers poisons the ecosystem.

“You cannot develop software for users you despise,” said Mow.

He pointed out to specific behavior to illustrate his claim, claiming that developers have branded user nodes such as ‘fake’, who told them: “They don’t matter” and even “kill their nodes and laughs at it.”

The Jan3 director described this behavior as “terrible” and suggested that it comes from a problematic mindset:

“Somehow we end up with junction software developers who at the same time have a god complex and a victim mentality,” he wrote.

According to him, the only solution to the problem is a return to professionalism and humility. He stated that everyone who wants to work on Bitcoin should not make everything about themselves or take away their frustrations about other users.

“If you are really such a talented developer, how is it that you are completely unable to convince people that your changes are good?” Asked Mow, referring to the current debate around the decision to remove the long-term limit of 80 bytes on on_return outputs, which the community apparently distributed.

His sentiment found support from others, with developer ‘Uncle Rockstar’ point to That it was “easy for developers to fall into the fall by thinking that technical skill is equal to intellectual superiority.”

However, not everyone agrees with this characterization. Earlier, co-founder of BTCazores Antoine Poinsot stated That Bitcoin is money and that protocol developers cannot force anyone to use it in one way or another. In the meantime, security expert Jameson Lopp offered a more pragmatic representation, which suggests that programmers can simply be “building for a different set of users” and that the “free market tends to resolve these things.”

The technical catalyst

Initially, the 80-Byte on_Rreturn-Cap was implemented as a “soft signal” to discourage excessive non-financial data from embedded on the blockchain. However, some developers now say that the limit is outdated because miners have found ways to circumvent it, although they are complex and inefficient.

According to them, removing it will promote cleaner data storage and maintain network neutrality. Some, such as Gregory Sanders, have claimed that “this does not endorse non-financial data use, but accepts that as a censorship-resistant system, Bitcoin can and will be used for user cases that does not match everyone.”

Yet their justification is unable to place critics. One of them, Bitcoin buttons that Luke Dashjr maintains, called the removal “extended insanity”, a sentiment that is also represented by MOW and others who fear that it will lead to network spam and a deviation from the main function of the blockchain as peer-to-peer electronic cash. This change has become the battlefield for a much larger war over the soul and the future direction of the Bitcoin network.