News359: edits to harding section

Author: harding

_posts/en/newsletters/2025-06-20-newsletter.md

@@ -15,15 +15,13 @@ This week's newsletter FIXME:harding
   Bryan Bishop [posted][bishop priv] to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to
   suggest that the Bitcoin Core Project limit the public's ability to
   participate in project discussions in order to reduce the amount of
-  disruption caused by non-contributors.  He analogized this to
-  "privatizing Bitcoin Core" the way private companies rarely publicly
-  share internal team discussions, shielding their individual employees
-  from public reproach that drains their time and emotional energy.  He
+  disruption caused by non-contributors.  He called this
+  "privatizing Bitcoin Core",
   points to examples of this privatization already happening on an ad
   hoc basis in private offices with multiple Bitcoin Core contributors,
-  but warns that leaves out many contributors who work remotely.
+  and warns that in-person privatization leaves out remote contributors.
 
-  Bishop's post suggests a method for implementing the policy, but
+  Bishop's post suggests a method for online privatization, but
   Antoine Poinsot [questioned][poinsot priv] whether that method would
   actually achieve the goal.  Poinsot also suggested that many private
   office discussions might occur not out of fear of public reproach but
@@ -35,10 +33,11 @@ This week's newsletter FIXME:harding
   significant type of disruption.  However, other replies noted several
   challenges with stronger moderation.
 
-  Both Poinsot and Sebastian "The Charlatan" Kung, the only two highly
+  Poinsot, Sebastian "The Charlatan" Kung, and Russell Yanofsky---the only highly
   active Bitcoin Core contributors to reply to the thread as of the time
-  of writing, [indicated][kung priv] that they don't think a major
-  change is necessary.
+  of writing---[indicated][kung priv] either [that][yanofsky priv]  they don't think a major
+  change is necessary or that any changes should be made incrementally
+  over time.
 
 - **Improvements to BitVM-style contracts:** Robin Linus [posted][linus
   bitvm3] to Delving Bitcoin to announce a significant reduction in the
@@ -57,14 +56,14 @@ This week's newsletter FIXME:harding
   assertion was invalid.
 
 - **Channel rebalancing research:** Rene Pickhardt [posted][pickhardt
-  rebalance] to Delving Bitcoin an idea for rebalancing channels across
-  LN that attempts to maximize the rate of payment feasibility across
-  the whole network.  This can be compared to other approaches that look
+  rebalance] to Delving Bitcoin thoughts about rebalancing channels
+  to maximize the rate of successful payments across
+  the whole network.  His ideas can be compared to approaches that look
   at smaller groups of channels, such as [friend-of-a-friend
   rebalancing][topic jit routing] (see [Newsletter #54][news54 foaf
   rebalance]).
 
-  Pickhardt notes that there are several challenges to this approach and
+  Pickhardt notes that there are several challenges to a global approach and
   asks interested parties to answer a few questions, such as whether
   this is an approach worth pursuing and how to address certain
   implementation details.
@@ -174,4 +173,5 @@ repo], and [BINANAs][binana repo]._
 [starkware sv2]: https://github.com/keep-starknet-strange/stratum
 [news337 delay]: /en/newsletters/2025/01/17/#eclair-2936
 [news349 attributable]: /en/newsletters/2025/04/11/#ldk-2256
-[news342 peer]:/en/newsletters/2025/02/21/#ldk-3575
+[news342 peer]:/en/newsletters/2025/02/21/#ldk-3575
+[yanofsky priv]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/meta/issues/19#issuecomment-2961177626