Topic: Hated Personalities in the World of Bitcoin - page 2. (Read 399 times)

I love how they say he "foresaw the financial crisis."  He has been predicting a financial crisis for decades, hence the moniker "Dr Doom".  A stopped clock is right twice a day too. Just because eventually he is correct, doesn't mean he foresaw it.  If a 20 year old predicts a financial crisis "this year" EVERY January 1st, eventually she'll be correct even though it had NOTHING to do with being prescient, just persistently wrong for many years before being right eventually.

I'd agree about Buffett.  He should be disrespected as a hypocrite and liar, not just because he has pontificated about bitcoin when he understood nothing about it.  He wants everyone else to pay higher taxes, but when he has the chance to do so he put tens of billions into his foundation so it doesn't have to pay taxes.  Just like Bill Gates and a lot of other billionaires on the left, they have a "do as I say, not as I do" mentality - lower your carbon emissions, never mind that I have 100,00 sq meters of living space, fly private jets around the world, and have a fleet of cars.

I'm not sure he's one of the most hated people in the crypto community, but I know he has quite a few people who have a kind of hate-love against him.

Arthur Hayes, CEO of BitMEX,

How about Dr Doom aka Nouriel Roubini?

From BBC News

Hated personalities in the world of bitcoin according to my choice, which always gives a negative opinion of bitcoin.
Which of the following people has made bad news about bitcoin and is not liked by the bitcoin community.

1. Craig Wright, this person is too confident that he is satoshi nakamoto the creator of bitcoin. In fact there is no proof
    it was also stated that he was the original Satoshi Nakamoto.
2. John McAfee, this person is lying too much and hallucinating. Assume he's a cryptocurrency expert, but almost all of his predictions
    wrong.And always promoting shitcoins.
3. Warren Buffett, a successful investor who always views bitcoin negatively. Mentioning delusional bitcoin, causes the market
    destroyed because of his negative revelations in various media.

Hopefully the people above are aware of their bad behavior, and can accept bitcoin is the future.

He's a cocksuckerprickmotherfucker but what actual harm has he done compared to others? He has a hand in an irrelevant fork of an irrelevant fork. He makes plenty of noise. I haven't detected many actual effects.

The biggest villain in the cryptocurrency world is for sure Craig Wright, he is such a cancerous person and doesn't feel ashame of himself trying to claim the position of being the owner and dear creator of bitcoin, such greediness.
Surely he did a big negative impact with his sayings about bitcoin, it is normal knowing how big Warren Buffett's name is and how many supporters he has.

How about Game-Protect?

With his personality I'm sure a lot hated that guy for trolling almost all the casino threads in the forum. I know he isn't that much of a very well known personality in crypto but I guess users has something to say about who's who in the community. There are lots more here who could be hating someone but game-protect certainly stands out.

I would add Warren Buffett to this list, a man who is highly respected in the business world for the enormous wealth he has earned during his life. But he has always had a very negative opinion of Bitcoin, and he never hesitated to say it publicly. Although I respect every man's right to his opinion, I think he has done a great deal of damage to Bitcoin with his statements.

Nonetheless, many in this community continue to respect him and defend his views which really seems a bit odd when we read his statements about Bitcoin itself and people who have something to do with it.

Roger&Faketoshi are certainly two characters who are highest on the list of hated people, without any doubt for very good reasons.

gavin andresen and mike hearn were once at the top of the list. they tried to hard fork bitcoin to 8x the block size limit and added a TOR blacklisting feature. i haven't heard much from them in the last few years though.

brian armstrong (coinbase) and peter smith (blockchain) also got a lot of flack for using their platforms to pressure people into the 2x hard fork. jihan wu as well. they've all wised up and become much more tight-lipped recently.

these days, team faketoshi takes the cake.

Mark Karpeles must surely have been the champ back in the day. Now he's a fox who all the girls and boys want to pull into bed, but at the time he was the non verbal slob who fucked everything and noodled as everything burnt.

Certainly, there are some personalities which the Bitcoin community (or at least some of the people within) do hate, though sometimes not really in a bad way but just an expression of disagreement and opposition to what they said especially against Bitcoin. So this is akin to the case of fans of a certain entertainment artists defending their idol against the harsh critics.

As to Craig Wright, I feel that he is topping anybody's list as he is unwavering in claiming to be the real Satoshi Nakamoto even if a mountain of evidence suggest that he is just a liar. Maybe we should give the crown to him as the Most Hated Man in the crypto space. Hope somebody can be making a crown for him.

Let me just add Jamie Dimon the Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest of the big four American banks, who got the ire of the community because of his intense criticism on Bitcoin but we later found out his firm is actually engaging in Bitcoin too...he is then considered to be a big hypocrite.

I am not so sure if we can also add Mark Zuckerberg to this list but I think there are also some who don't like his involvement in the cryptocurrency market by introducing the pseudo-cryptocurrency Libra. This remains to be seen if eventually the man can use his remaining charm to attract the crypto market to his side.

I only have 3 people/companies that come to mind.

Craig Wright, fakes being Satoshi and currently has an open case where he's claiming that he is the creator of bitcoin due to some coffee stained papers.

John McAfee, gave crypto-currencies and ICOs a bad reputation by doing nothing for the projects he was involved in, whilst charging huge prices for them.

JP Morgan, first they don't acknowledge BTC and then keep changing perspectives to make sure they make money.

Don't forget John McAfee who was once a renowned bitcoin evangelist turned scum simply because of his greed. He has been promoting shitcoins and has been shilling over them for quite some time now. His 2020 vision of bitcoin reaching $1M together with the words " I now predict Bitcoin at $1 million by the end of 2020. I will still eat my dick if wrong." has become iconic and just proved how nonsensical this man has become.

Don't forget about Peter Schiff, he always hated bitcoin and keeps on saying that don't trust bitcoin although it was reported that he admitted to receive a decent amount from A.Pompliano.

‘I Guess I’ll Have to Hodl It’ — Peter Schiff Admits to Having Bitcoin

There's also Jamie Dimon that eventually exposed that he's into accumulating it.

JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon says bitcoin ‘is a fraud’, ‘worse than tulips’, and destined to ‘blow up’

But later on:JPMorgan finally admits Bitcoin has value, here is how they measure it

Craig Wright probably holds the crown due to his lies about being Satoshi Nakamoto. Not to mention the entire BCH hard fork incident which basically caused another market crash last November.

Calvin Ayre - BSV financial backer, alleged pedophile & in bed with CW. What’s not to despise?

Roger Ver and Craig Wright are truly hated by the bitcoin community and we cannot deny since they are famous in a negative way. Also we have John Mcafee who is hated because he brings bad image to cryptocurrency. He was defined as delusional and crazy and he is a laughingstock in bitcoin community. We also have David Gerard who has a passion on attacking bitcoin, he has a lots of blogs attacking not only bitcoin but the whole cryptocurrency network.

In every industry or market, there will always be people whom many loves and many hates. And in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, there is no exemption here. While hating is not a good business, expressing some dislike can be a healthy one.

As far as being hated, I can think of at least two personalities, and we know why many don't like them: Roger Ver the man behind BitcoinCash and of course Craig Wright who earned the moniker as "faketoshi" as he is continually claiming to be the real guy and behind the Bitcoin SV (the original Bitcoin, according to its site).

Can you add more, please.