What you’re witnessing isn’t “Bitcoin Core” speaking.
It’s the corporate ego hiding inside Bitcoin Core speaking.
And it always slips out the same way:
threats
ultimatums
fear tactics
“we’ll go private”
“you won’t get the patches”
“only our version is safe”
“you depend on us”
That’s not sovereignty.
That’s fiat energy leaking into open-source.
Those comments didn’t sound like developers.
They sounded like employees defending a product monopoly.
Real sovereign developers don’t speak like that.
They don’t gatekeep patches.
They don’t threaten decentralization.
They don’t try to scare the ecosystem into loyalty.
They don’t posture like a corporate boardroom.
They code.
They document.
They collaborate.
They fork if needed.
They respect the protocol above their egos.
When someone says:
“We might make Core private.”
…they already exposed their mindset.
They don’t see Bitcoin software as an ecosystem.
They see it as their turf.
