doomads ideals are supporting other networks and only changing bitcoin to support the migration of people towards other networks of middleman control. where the danger of going agaisnt his ideals lays in breaking his other network adoption plans
much the same as the games HmmMAA a Leez currently support

im sure within 6 years doomad and HmmMAA and Leez will join forces and be best friends promoting how bitcoin should not progress for bitcoiners but should progress for other networkers priorities.. they just need to fight over whos other network should be the priority underclass network, to which they want bitcoin network to serve

both doomad(and his chums) and BSV people are happy if their centralised gods are sell-outs to their sponsors where no one should scrutinise their gods or question their morals or motives

as for me or anyone not core, thus not writing code for bitcoin network upgrade proposals.
you might want to read doomads 8 years of abusing people who dare make efforts to propose anything (most abuses are called REKT campaigns, to which all proposals not fashioned by core are deemed altcoin announcements in doomads eyes because he does not want people actually coding bitcoin upgrade proposals, unless they are the benevolent core dev hierarchy of gods).. it is a comical read that belongs in the religious philosophical comedy section of literature

i call it a sponsorship because like all sponsorships they get paid set amounts if they meet goals or hit milestones
(much like those school long distance/field runs/marathons that are sponsored 50p/50c per mile run)
they only get paid if they do X things. where the activity achieved promotes/elevates/brings ROI to the businesses

unlike donations that have no conditions

even funnier is if you dare ask a blockstream, brink, chaincodelab about their income and deals they will say that its 'commercially sensitive data' and wont tell the bitcoin community.

it then gets worse when the same core devs with 'force merge' code ability are also the moderators and chairs/comity of all the main technical discussion platforms

it even gets worse when those not of core hierarchy are seen as threats to bitcoin. being called "totalitarian take-over" if releasing code, or benign(so ignore) if not releasing code.. thus never allowing non-core people to even get to propose things in idea or code format due to things like REKT campaigns and witch-hunts of treating non-core proposals as threats

when it gets to a point that core formed a hierarchy of control, power, privilege
when it gets to a point that the decentralised userbase of bitcoin should not scrutinise core
when it gets to a point that IF decentralised userbase of bitcoin should find flaws and try to highlight them, get told to shut up or be banned
when it gets to a point that the decentralised userbase of bitcoin should not ask for features because no one should freely ask anything of core
when it gets to a point that open source becomes like a newspaper.. open pages to read, but closed door to becoming a editor/reviewer of said newpaper

then things get too centralised with core being too powerful and funded by the types that dont have the best interests in bitcoiners needs

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we SHOULD actually get back to a position where multiple full node brands work symbiotically for the network..  offering proposals for the network where by differing node brands are not treated as enemies/opposition for offering proposals. nor relegated to being treated as 'forks to altcoins'. whereby the features activate only when the network is deemed network ready by the majority(consensus) to understand, interpret and validate such new features.. unlike the current scenario that core can slide new things in without network readiness. due to the softened methods they employed

there used to be. but that went centralised to.. namely examples of "bitcoin foundation"

sidenote
github has features where people can individually donate/sponsor a dev. and many devs publish their bitcoin addresses on their own websites/social media...
but when it comes to organisations making formal deals with core devs under employment of a company/brand. then we should be scrutinising those deals openly

now with all that said.
the devs of bitcoin core that do the maintaining (not talking about the volunteers they allow to spell check/translate to appear diverse) are highly paid already.

Exactly.

Nobody cries that Linux is taken over by Microsoft.

Linux development requires money, so somebody has to fund it. It's no longer a hobby project by Linus Torvalds.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-isnt-worried-about-microsoft-taking-over-linux/

bitcoin is money
if the devs cannot profit from the thing they manage.. they are in the wrong career

its like devs that program SWIFT (G-10 international payment transfers), but needing to beg for yuan(not g-10) to survive, and tailor swift to operate better for non g-10 transfers and make it annoying for g-10 transfers

if an american banker dev cant survive on US dollar.. he shouldnt be an american banker dev, he should go off-board and work for chinese payment systems

most of the exploits are made by the core devs(devs that have been around even during 2011-14) so they had ample opportunity to accumulate coin for themselves to stay independent.
(many are rich) but still willing to accept the golden handshakes of institutional money to then programs features that only benefit institutions

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by the way
doomad(and his echo chamber group) wants the annoying ordinal spam that creates unspendable 1-330sat utxo's to never be made to be stopped..
(wants the annoyances to continue).. yet
doomad wants people spending re-spendable/consolidatable amounts of 10,000-1,000,000 sat ($4.80-$480) to stop using the bitcoin network
because he wants real spendable retail purchases of coffee, pizza, grocery amounts to happen on his preferred subnetwork

where he can syphon routing fee's from them on the other network each payment. because he cant sneak fee's from relaying on the bitcoin network
so now you understand doomads mindset

id start the same way, until i start seeing devs doing some shady crap that changes bitcoin in ways that actually dont benefit the decentralised individuals of bitcoin, but make it annoying for said individuals of bitcoin just to benefit institutions... then finding out institutions are the ones funding devs, then makes me and others start questioning things.. and if devs start saying "its commercially sensitive information" thats whe even more questions should arise

also. devs are not immortal gods that require churches that need donations/bribes, employment as bishops and priests to keep the religion alive.
devs can retire and devs can leave even in paid roles. they are only human. devs can be replaced by better people
so dont fear a dev leaving by thinking we should put up with their crap because they are a known entity.. dont be afraid. dont keep dead wood around that poison the forest just because you think bitcoin will break without them specifically

 

FUD by frankandbeans.

You accuse the Core Developers of having hidden motives/not trustworthy, but you support the the movement of Roger Ver + Jihan Wu to split the community, to hard fork into an altcoin, then call that "The Real Bitcoin" because Satoshi's white paper. Who were the signatories in the New York Agreement? Why were the Core Developers NOT invited, which for them, was such an important meeting?

no i did not.. my post history never even comes close to what you recite

but your post history and doomads does show you are learning your scripts from the wrong people. you sound too much like doomad religious scripts where he used to pidgeon hole anyone not treating core devs as gods as people who must be altcoin adorers
you make yourself look silly when you cant think for yourself and just recite old religious songs sung by doomad

heck you cant even think up an original insult and instead use his buzzword insults too..

also you are completely clueless and misinformed about the actions of 2017. no wonder you keep proclaiming you are gaslight. but you refuse to note who is the one lighting and fueling your fire.

if we use religious analogies
i view bitcoin as athiest. you believe bitcoin is catholic(where the priests get to do things to script-kiddies.) and then you think any announcing the failures of Catholicism must be muslim terrorists and pretend that they must be muslim and they must hate bitcoin if they are not catholic god adoring

reality is bitcoin is athiest. but you idiots want to play pigeon hole games to make core look like gods and anyone not in your religious sect like the devil

you do not beleive in independant code review, nor scrutiny. you believe in 'trust in god' and not question their scriptures, motives, messages

funny part is, its actually your mentor that loves and adores other networks.. HIS post history proves it
your mentor(doomad) is the one that doesnt want anyone but core gods to change the religious roadmap practices of bitcoin. instead he promotes anyone wanting to fix issues with bitcoin should go start another religion(fork) elsewhere and see who follows.. rather than actually deal with the issues of the gods you idolise

if money comes with conditions its a bribe


devs are not immortal gods.. humans get old, they retire.. they wont be around forever.. nature itself will replace devs... sorry to inform you of this..

anyway your premiss sounds closed door minded

currently yes bitcoins sole reference github (called core purposefully) is a hierarchy with moderation where the core devs decide who joins them or bans those they dont like..

but widen your mind..
open up to an existence of bitcoin where independent review exists, multiple brand nodes exist openly
 where people can code things openly and have it reviewed and actually show and explain the real benefits the code can provide the network*.

whether it be on a more open gated core github. or other brands operating on the network* offering proposals for the network*... imagine it, a decentralised network without it feeling like core own and control the code and control who gets to be a bitcoin protocol editor

*without army of religious zeolets screaming to keep gods in power and saying others should move to altcoins