Gloria Zhao Leaves Bitcoin Core

This is Matthew Crowder's Bitcoin

University. Today I want to talk about

Gloria Zhao leaving Bitcoin Core. She's

no longer a Bitcoin Core maintainer as

of yesterday. It's really the end of an

era because we've lost someone who is

perhaps the greatest knots marketer of

all time. Every single time I played

this video, more and more Bitcoiners

dumped core and started running knots.

So, let's listen to it for one last

time. like you like if you don't like

cat photos, you don't like wizards or

whatever, that's like your choice,

right? But I don't think um this is not

a legitimate transaction or you know

this is a waste of blocks, you know,

because NFTTS are bad or whatever. I

don't think that language has a play.

Well, I don't think that should be

considered when you are talking about

writing policy code. Future generations

of Bitcoiners will look back on that

video and wonder how in the world anyone

ever let someone like that as close to

Bitcoin as we did giving someone like

that right access who doesn't even

understand the basics about Bitcoin

being money. Anyway, Gloria Zho is out

and she writes on the GitHub as planned.

Of course, this is an example of Bitcoin

Core transparency at work. No one knows

what's going on. There is no

transparency. This was somehow planned

that she was leaving. But anyway, she's

giving up her key, her merge access key,

and we can see people acting it,

approving of it, acknowledging it. And

then we have Antoine Puanso here, do

Rosio writing concept act. Sorry to see

you go. Thanks for your maintenance work

until now. And I appreciate you promptly

dropping your commit access once it was

no longer in use. Well, it wasn't

dropped that promptly, especially given

the fact that she was hacked just 2

weeks ago. And again, we had no

transparency into this as well, whether

this key had been compromised. It was

never a secret that Gloria despised

Bitcoin plebs, which is really weird

when you come to think of it because

that's who she was supposedly writing

Node Software for along with the rest of

Bitcoin Core. It's quite easy to find

videos like this where she's openly

insulting her base. Let's take a listen.

>> Uh, Bitcoin maximalism.

>> Oo, that's a tough one. Um, it depends

on how you define maximalism. I think my

definition is this kind of like

narrowminded

like immediate shutdown of anything

that's not Bitcoin. And I

>> and then we have a similar video where

Gloria is insulting Bitcoiners.

>> You know, it's just like, you know, I

there's some Bitcoiners going to

Stanford Blockchain Conference. So, if

you want to meet them, I'd be like, "Oh,

I'm not going to say no." Like, it's not

very often that you get to meet someone

who works on Bitcoin Core. But in my

head, I'm like imagining these like

nutty like carnivore,

narrow-minded, redneck like Bitcoin

maximalists.

>> Nutty carnivore narrow-minded redneck

Bitcoin maximalists. Now, Gloria is a

private citizen now. She's a civilian

and she's no longer a part of this civil

war. So, I would encourage everyone to

move on and leave her alone both online

and in real life. I won't be playing

these videos of her anymore either. If

we look at what Bitcoin has done since

that cursed day of October 10th, 2025

when Bitcoin Core version 30 was

released with Gloria's awful data

carrier size merge, it's not a pretty

picture. Bitcoin has gone straight down.

Here was when here's October 10th when

Bitcoin Core version 30 was released and

it's really been a disaster every ever

since then. Turns out that's not good

for Bitcoin when the reference

implementation decides that they know

what's best for Bitcoin because everyone

else is so stupid and non-technical and

nutty and carnivore and rednecky. When

devs focus on narrow technical

improvements while being oblivious to

the real world implications of

increasing Bitcoin's attack surface.

It's not good for Bitcoin. Nepotism is

also not good for Bitcoin because it

erodess trust in the project and

undermines meritocracy. It's not good

for the people involved either because

putting your girlfriend in a position of

power that she's not smart enough or

mature enough to handle, I think that's

a pretty cruel and selfish thing to do.

Glorious fall can be viewed as a

cautionary tale, I think, for those who

favor and facilitate spam on Bitcoin. If

you're a pro spam dev, we want you to

leave Bitcoin because you clearly don't

understand Bitcoin or Bitcoin culture or

Bitcoin history. We want you to leave

Bitcoin just like we wanted Vitalic

Buterine to leave Bitcoin in 2014. and

he did because we wouldn't give him

large OP returns. If you're a pro spam

miner or mining pool, go mine on Bcash

or BSV. We don't want you here either.

We're going to run software like BIP 110

that throws your spam containing blocks

in the garbage. So, you will have spent

a lot of money on electricity with

nothing to show for it. And if you're a

pro spam cryptovc, we're going to keep

calling you out and we're going to tell

people why they should boycott your

events and publications. This is

Bitcoin's social layer at work.

Bitcoin's decentralized, so we can't

rely on a benevolent monarch or CEO to

protect Bitcoin. It's Bitcoin pleb, node

runners, and hodlers that are the immune

system that protects Bitcoin, and

they're pretty fierce when you attack

their money, as we've seen the last 12

months. Spammers, scammers, ship coiners

are not welcome in Bitcoin. They can use

Bitcoin as money like everyone else,

because of course, Bitcoin is not just

for friends. Bitcoin is for enemies.

They can use Bitcoin as money like

everyone else. But if they try to f with

our money like Gloria did, if they try

to push through a highly controversial

poll request like Gloria did, then we're

going to do our best to make their lives

really unpleasant in a nonviolent and

legal way. Of course, that's because

Bitcoin does not belong to the devs. It

does not belong to Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin

belongs to the plebs. The plebs who own

real Bitcoin and self-custody and run

their own nodes. And all Bitcoin plebs

understand in reality that a surprising

number of Bitcoin core people like

Gloria could never seem to understand.

Bitcoin is a monetary network. It's not

a data storage network. It's not an NFT

network. And those things have no place

on the network. And this reality is

about to be enforced by Bitcoin node

runners all over the world who choose to

run BIP 110, which aims to close these

large holes in consensus that roll out

the red carpet for spam on Bitcoin. Like

large op returns, no one needs 1

megabyte op returns in Bitcoin except

the spammers and the scammers. More and

more Bitcoiners have begun to run the

softwork software. We can see now that

there are 2,472

Bitcoiners running BIP 110. That's 2.84%

of the network, which is quite

impressive. And Daytonome just announced

that the first version of the Bitcoin

UASF BIP 110 client. This is version

one. So we're no longer in release

clients. The first version has been

released and it's been added to a wide

variety of platforms including Umbreal,

Start 9, My Node, Parma Node, and now

Ubuntu. You can see here that I'm

running the latest version. I just

upgraded. If we go down here, we can see

if we look at the githash, it's version

uh v0.1 and we can see it as well here.

So running bitcoin knots plus bip 110

the new version. If you want to learn

how to upgrade that basically you can

just go to the marketplace if you've

already installed the bip 110 and then

you just go under bitcoin here and you

click on this and you click reinstall.

And I'll put some instructions here how

to do that. I'll put a link to this in

the description notes below. how to

upgrade on start on start 9 as well as

how to upgrade or install using start 9

umbrella node how to run it as a a free

um free standalone client on your laptop

or desktop also how to buy or build a

start 9 server as well so I'll put a

link to all these resources in the

description notes below as well as a

link to mechanic's latest video which is

quite good and we'll be talking about

probably tomorrow or on Monday so be

sure to check that out I'll put a link

in the description notes below

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