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Lonelypumpkins
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2024-12-12 12:45:38

Lonelypumpkins on Nostr: Roger is attempting to give himself the credibility he had in 2015, and totally ...

Roger is attempting to give himself the credibility he had in 2015, and totally ignoring that he was one of the architects of the bcash mess. He owns bitcoin dot com, and in 2017 started hawking bcash as if it were bitcoin. To this day, people are misled by this. The market speaks for itself regarding its value vs bitcoin, and anyone who was persuaded or misled by Roger has far less bitcoin now because of it.

He was big on yelling "censorship" in the 2016-2017 days. The r/bitcoin subreddit was where a lot of the discussions were happening, the admins of r/bitcoin didn't permit shitcoinery in their subreddit, and they considered implementations of bitcoin that weren't in consensus with the network to be shitcoins. Before there was bcash, there was bitcoin unlimited. Before BU, there was bitcoin classic. Ver promoted them all.

To say those in consensus (small blockers, if you like) censor big blockers (those that mine blocks greater than 1mb pre-segwit, 4m weight units now) is same as saying they're censoring txns that spend coins they don't have, sign for utxos they don't have the private keys for, or pay themselves 1000 btc in the coinbase txn. He's calling being out of consensus "censorship."

Bcashers spun up r/btc to have the discussions they wanted to have. Confusingly, the ticker for bitcoin is BTC, and bcash is BCH, or BCC on finex I think.

I was having a conversation with a precoiner this year who was on the cusp of becoming a newcoiner, and based on some of what he said, it was clear he's been misled by bcash rhetoric. Such a costly DDOS.
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