It is very strange and sad that @solex, @Peter R and @theZerg remain silent. The fact that the members don't ask for a report shows that the BU member club is an undead animal while Bitcoin Unlimited (the GCBU movement) is alive and well.
Who is TPTB? From my perspective (everything is an organism) it can only be an organ of the organism. An organ never controls the organism alone. Not your stomach, not your heart, and not your brain either. The movements of an organism always reflect the will of the whole organism.
I noted the report, but only realized later that it was written by Christian. He is, above all, a scientist who appeared as a very honest and nice person whenever I meet him. I believe it is his serious scientific believe that bitcoin can't scale onchain and that lightning is an attempt to rescue a broken system. Imho he never realized that scaling onchain is not a question of technology but if politics.
To use your metaphor, single-cell organisms cooperate to create a multicelled organism, in this fractal of life, zooming out, these are your subsistence being in the amazon rain forest. As life becomes more complex you eventually end up with a lifeform where cells cooperate to form organs that in turn cooperate to sustain a new mode of being, this is society today, we're evolving to a collective being similar to Gaia theory only evolved.
It just confirms what was concluded about 5 years ago. So in a way, it's good news, we're still about 5 years ahead of those guys.
Yes, but on the other hand, according to Schopenhauer and Buddha, the whole universe is cancer. The reality is not: "And he saw that it was good", "love your neighbor". It is: kill and eat thousands.
It looks like a split could be mitigated if BU could just stop disagreeing and help foster agreement.
BCH used to have one. We called it the Bitcoin White Paper. I'm not clear on this new economic system that's being preserved after forking off the Bitcoin (aka BSV) that's following the fundamental economic incentives in Bitcoin.
