Topic: My response to David Gerard's Bitcoin hate rant. (Read 1002 times)
Seems confused mental wandering to me.
I am calling out so-called bitcoin expert David Gerard for the fraud that he is. . All he does is trash bitcoin, trash ethereum and trash any other blockchain idea on wikipedia, but he sells himself as a bitcoin consultant.. Im amazed that this charlatan gets so much media attention. His poor understanding of how bitcoin works, his hatred for bitcoin and his disdain for the bitcoin community is evident on page 1 of "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts"
Ive linked to it below.
If you have an amazon account, do what is right in the book review section.
This self-styled bitcoin guru is a big wig at wikipedia using his own name "David Gerard." He spends his days and nights deleting articles and trashing anyone who supports blockchain projects!
Wikipedia would have us believe that David Gerard is volunteer. Im calling bullshit. Trolls dont work for free. Somebody is paying him and other "wikipedia editors" to take down anything crypto related or to insert fake news into articles that they cant eliminate. Bitcoin is down, David Gerard smells blood and he attacks with FUD to drive the price down even more.
He says his dodgy book is being used on university campuses! Which ones?
If this is true, we need to contact the administration of these schools, expose David Gerard fior the fraud that he is and insist that Andreas Antonopolis is invited to speak.
A lot of other people have their doubts about David Gerard:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4b76i4/who_is_david_gerard_and_why_does_he_keep_editing/
http://wikipediawehaveaproblem.com/2017/06/david-gerard-versus-cryptocurrency-a-peak-into-an-emerging-wiki-war/
https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/David_Gerard
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
https://www.amazon.com/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-ebook/dp/B073CPP581
Ive linked to it below.
If you have an amazon account, do what is right in the book review section.
This self-styled bitcoin guru is a big wig at wikipedia using his own name "David Gerard." He spends his days and nights deleting articles and trashing anyone who supports blockchain projects!
Wikipedia would have us believe that David Gerard is volunteer. Im calling bullshit. Trolls dont work for free. Somebody is paying him and other "wikipedia editors" to take down anything crypto related or to insert fake news into articles that they cant eliminate. Bitcoin is down, David Gerard smells blood and he attacks with FUD to drive the price down even more.
He says his dodgy book is being used on university campuses! Which ones?
If this is true, we need to contact the administration of these schools, expose David Gerard fior the fraud that he is and insist that Andreas Antonopolis is invited to speak.
A lot of other people have their doubts about David Gerard:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4b76i4/who_is_david_gerard_and_why_does_he_keep_editing/
http://wikipediawehaveaproblem.com/2017/06/david-gerard-versus-cryptocurrency-a-peak-into-an-emerging-wiki-war/
https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/David_Gerard
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
https://www.amazon.com/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-ebook/dp/B073CPP581
I don't know why I was not informed of your reply. My apologies for the extreme delay. Normally subsequent replies alert me to these kinds of oversights a lot faster.
Awesome! Then you won't mind linking me to information which will help me correct them
Since you're clearly a fan, we won't quibble.
Yes and Nvidia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL#History
Since supply in the context of worth is defined by desire relative to availability the effect of "waking up to reality" was a sudden expansion of supply. Your comment seems to create a distinction without a difference. Also value is by definition subjective. There is no reality to wake up to, just a collective opinion. Even gold, while yes having objective physical traits does not have objective value.
But even if no one else on the planet wants them I'd want them for historical value if nothing else. I doubt I'm alone on this front. BTC will never totally lose value so long as they exist and I'm alive.
That's debatable, to put it mildly. http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/02/13/hit-men-click-whores-and-paid-apologists-welcome-to-the-silicon-cesspool/ (for a little taste of why that's debatable)
Granted. But they won't. BTC have a fixed scarcity.
Neither am I till someone demonstrates it or points out something I've specifically asserted which I cannot defend.
Thanks for the reply and again sorry about the absurd delay. And I guess nercopost at this point.
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You have a lot of errors.
Awesome! Then you won't mind linking me to information which will help me correct them
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You completely mischaracterize Ayn Rand.
Since you're clearly a fan, we won't quibble.
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OpenCL is ATI/AMD.
Yes and Nvidia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL#History
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You misunderstand that the tulip bulb crash was not a function of expanding supply, it was a result of simply waking up to reality.
Since supply in the context of worth is defined by desire relative to availability the effect of "waking up to reality" was a sudden expansion of supply. Your comment seems to create a distinction without a difference. Also value is by definition subjective. There is no reality to wake up to, just a collective opinion. Even gold, while yes having objective physical traits does not have objective value.
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If other people stop valuing bitcoins, you will be in the same situation.
But even if no one else on the planet wants them I'd want them for historical value if nothing else. I doubt I'm alone on this front. BTC will never totally lose value so long as they exist and I'm alive.
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Much like the dot-com crash.
That's debatable, to put it mildly. http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/02/13/hit-men-click-whores-and-paid-apologists-welcome-to-the-silicon-cesspool/ (for a little taste of why that's debatable)
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You can't do much with a tulip bulb if other people stop valuing it. The same is true of stocks of money-losing companies. If other people stop valuing bitcoins, you will be in the same situation.
Granted. But they won't. BTC have a fixed scarcity.
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I'm not sure that your critique is any less wrong.
Neither am I till someone demonstrates it or points out something I've specifically asserted which I cannot defend.
Thanks for the reply and again sorry about the absurd delay. And I guess nercopost at this point.
You have a lot of errors. You completely mischaracterize Ayn Rand. You repeat the author's error that Nvidia is succeeding here. OpenCL is ATI/AMD.
You misunderstand that the tulip bulb crash was not a function of expanding supply, it was a result of simply waking up to reality. Much like the dot-com crash. You can't do much with a tulip bulb if other people stop valuing it. The same is true of stocks of money-losing companies. If other people stop valuing bitcoins, you will be in the same situation.
Some of your criticisms are correct, and I wouldn't put much faith in the original article, but I'm not sure that your critique is any less wrong.
You misunderstand that the tulip bulb crash was not a function of expanding supply, it was a result of simply waking up to reality. Much like the dot-com crash. You can't do much with a tulip bulb if other people stop valuing it. The same is true of stocks of money-losing companies. If other people stop valuing bitcoins, you will be in the same situation.
Some of your criticisms are correct, and I wouldn't put much faith in the original article, but I'm not sure that your critique is any less wrong.
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