The article discusses the implementation of ephemeral anchors in Lightning channels to simplify the process of unilateral closure transactions. Ephemeral anchors allow for fee updates and fee bumps, benefiting second layer protocols and contracts built on Bitcoin. However, the author notes that there have been irrational arguments and criticisms against this improvement, calling them a waste of time and a denial of service attack against Bitcoin's improvement process. The author suggests that legitimate criticism should be welcomed, but irrational tribalism should not be entertained.



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