I think it is interesting that the dirbag jratcliff63367 agreed to say that he personally know that Roger Ver was employing an astroturfing firm, attract a bunch of attention, only to later admit this was a baseless claim with absolutely no merit.
I wonder if the above was one of blockstream's troll/smear campaigns and how much that dirtbag ended up getting paid to say that.
Perhaps Roger Ver threatened to sue him, and he decided making the claim was not worth the risk of a lawsuit or some kind of retaliation.
Roger Ver is a liberation, and is very strongly against violence and the use of force. In order to enforce a judgment won in a lawsuit, the use of force would need to be threatened.
Also, it would be easy enough to get that kind of a lawsuit dismissed as frivolous (and likely be awarded attorney's fees) by simply providing proof that an astroturfing firm was being employed.
He said affirmatively that Roger is using an astroturfing firm. If he knew this then it would be easy enough to post the evidence. He did not say that he suspected that he employed an astroturfing firm.
I would also point out that he also quickly deleted the comment (which I would suspect was part of his agreement with #dragonsden in order to give himself cover), but someone noticed and very loudly pointed out the comment.
Probably most importantly,
if Roger was employing an astroturfing firm, I don't think they would leave their business card with the moderators of the subreddit that the astroturfing is taking place in.
edit: it looks like he later
said that his comment was (baseless) speculation.
I can provide no proof of this. It's just a guess based on his social media posting patterns.
