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I've come to realize Elon understands human psychology at a high level. Most effective leaders have this quality about them. He also sees the impossible as possible, heard a story that revolved around Elons inner circle in the 2000’s making fun of him every time he came around talking about his electric car startup. Most people are afraid of humiliation, some embrace it as a badge of honor and a reason to keep going.
I try and support every bitcoin business that I possibly can
I share the instinct to do this, but you're right to consider dropping your support. We want to support bitcoin businesses through their early hiccups. We also don't want new bitcoiners having these kinds of experiences.
I'd say we should tolerate mistakes to the extent the business owns up to them and makes them right. Mistakes plus lack of accountability is a really bad combination.
They don't. From their point of view segwit outputs are weird scripts that anyone can satisfy – anyone can spend outputs.
That's basically how all soft forks work: we tighten the rules on something that previously didn't really have rules. Eg my own soft fork, CheckLockTimeVerify, reused NOP3, which previously did nothing at all.