Jared Pierce

Lead maintainer - Bitcoin Core had a single lead maintainer until 2023. Linux has had a single lead maintainer since 1991. What evidence do you have that global open source projects of the most important nature run better without a single maintainer? Content - that’s not the question. Taproot OP_IF was a bad decision for a script language designed to branch in leaves. There’s no good argument for keeping it and very good arguments to remove it. It does not have other great use cases (look on chain) and it does not freeze utxos to remove it. Taproot is simply better from an engineering perspective without it. The main privacy and efficiency benefits come from leafs and are eliminated by op_if. 99.6% of the use of taproot op_if on chain are “if true = false, load data” - a system hack