This thread is pretty representative of the poor discourse about Bitcoin development on X. “ship rad stuff”, “ship value” instagibbs was instrumental in shipping ephemeral anchors, TRUC, package relay, and other work that improved Lightning, to the celebration of Lightning node maintainers, Ark implementors, and users. Then wrote a guide to explain it all: instagibbs helped ship Cluster mempool to improve the mempool, fee bumping and other improvements instagibbs has been working on eltoo/LN-Symmetry, a substantial improvement/overhaul of Lightning for Bitcoin payments instagibbs is also working on covenants proposals specifically scoped to improve Bitcoin payment use case improvements for layer 2s like Lightning and Ark, as well as vault features. In addition to authoring these proposals, he is also working on tooling and a variety of proof of concepts. “Hold yourself to some level of standards. 8.5B people are counting on *us* to not drop the ball.” instagibbs has reviewed and provided many 1000s of comments in the last 11 years to help ensure balls are not dropped. You’re welcome to look at GitHub for the quality of these reviews. instagibbs’ work also helped mitigate pinning attacks on the Lightning Network. There are many other examples of hardening Bitcoin software, check the repo or ask your favorite LLM. Yet you claim he has “completely torpedoed quality work”, and should “be sent on your way”. Because you disagree with the rationale for a default mempool policy setting value change? Send away the guy spending 11 years on Bitcoin and some of the most impactful Bitcoin-as-payments work out there. Michael, ARE YOU OK?