The reason conversations around consensus are a dysfunctional mess is not because of the people proposing changes, its because of the people refusing to listen in good faith.
A breakdown of today's ruling in the Alexey Pertsev, Tornado Cash developer, case in the Netherlands and the implications this will have for open source developers going forward.
A breakdown by Andrew Poelstra on how Lamport Signatures, a hash based signature scheme, can be used to create a global state that any Bitcoin transaction can reference to settle smart contracts.