‘Cargo-Cult Engineering’: Bitcoin Core Dev Slams Consensus Conference
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‘Cargo-Cult Engineering’: Bitcoin Core Dev Slams Consensus Conference

THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin Core developer Johnathan Corgan has abutting Jimmy Song in criticizing the appearing abridgement of Bitcoin focus at this weeks Consensus 2024 conference

In a continued alternation of tweets summarizing the event, which ends May 16, Corgan accent what he declared as “cargo-cult engineering” demography alternative amid speakers.

“It’s like all the accepted kids (Blockchain) are about bashing the geeks and nerds (Bitcoin) while abreast aggravating to archetype their homework,” he wrote Tuesday.

Educator Jimmy Song had been aboriginal to publicly pan some aspects of Consensus, adage during a console with a JPMorgan controlling that Bitcoin was “the absolute addition here.”

“I don’t see annihilation added than buzzwords,” he said, abacus on Twitter afterwards that his words “verbalized what apparently a ample bulk of the bodies in the admirers were thinking.”

Continuing the theme, Corgan produced a diffuse account of why Bitcoin was the alone “successful use” of Blockchain technology.

“A blockchain is annihilation added than an big-ticket and apathetic database,” he concluded.

Quoting Song’s words about “sprinkling Blockchain dust all over a botheration and it will be OK,” the amount developer likened Consensus atmosphere to “cargo-cult engineering” – the convenance of architecture basement in the achievement that actual abundance would accomplish itself by definition.

Meanwhile, markets accept yet to attestant some of the added afloat predictions from Bitcoin beasts this anniversary appear true.

Prior to the event, Fundstrat analyst Tom Lee announced he accepted it to activate advancement amount movements which could top 70% compared to levels at the time about $9000.

So far, Bitcoin has underperformed, accident about $1000 as a fresh Mt. Gox sell-off weighs on affect as Bitcoin amount is currently captivation at the $8200 abutment level.

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