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It's a nice post, but it is a shame that the author does not mention certain current controversy [0] where Bitcoin Core has crumpled like a wet paper bag under a thread of lawsuit by one Craig Steven Wright - one that he played a key role in [1]. The PR to revert that change is still open and locked [2] so I can only imagine what kind of direct messages he would be receiving - I doubt many of them would be what one would consider 'nice'. Not to mention any of it when stepping back seems a little incredulous. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25858901 [1] https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org/pull/740 [2] https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org/pull/744

The "stepping back", as mentioned in the title, doesn't summarize what's happening here. laanwj decided to delegate some of his lead maintainer tasks to others with aim to further improve the decentralization and reducing the attack surface. He want to continue to work on Bitcoin an Bitcoin Core. Most recently, this became relevant as the bitcoincore.org website he (co-)maintains received a legal letter from a (fraudulent; as in unproven and repeatedly lying) entity claiming copyright of the 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper. He complied[0] by taking the PDF down from bitcoincore.org and received a lot of slack for it by parts of the community. He then made clear that he'll happily continue to work on Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin in general, but will not be a "martyr"[1] for the project: "it's up to you as bitcoiners to protect it". As a reaction a lot

Related: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org/pull/744 Reason number #420 why you should institute 24 hour rules on your repos (and not abuse lock functions.)

Related pull request: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org/pull/744