Your mate told shit about it and I've already refuted his arguments
Keep telling yourself that. You think just because people don't bother wasting their time trying to convince you what an obstinate, audacious and ultimately misguided fool you are that you've somehow won the debate? Get over yourself.
I was going to start a new topic in Reputation, "
Greedy DooMAD versus the Three Stooges", where I point out that all three of you topic-derailing wingnuts have, at some point or another, accused me of wanting to "
get rich" by supporting blockstream's supposed "
agenda". Incidentally, it always seems to happen when you've run out of arguments and have nothing left to offer up. Anyway, I
was going to do that to demonstrate just how easy it is to avoid derailing a topic. Lead by example and such. But you know what? Screw you, I'm going to ruin your topic and see how you like it for a change, because it's not like you're ever going to learn, even when shown how. So here goes:
When I get old and people ask me what I did during Bitcoin's formative years, I'll tell them I tried my best to keep this place sane while it was set upon by a small but determined number of mentally unhinged fanatics. If I tell you your idea is a load of mindless drivel, I'm not saying it because I'm chasing some mythical paycheck or anticipated future profit. I say it because I believe integrity is important. And that's all forms of integrity.
First up there's personal integrity, where I have to be intellectually honest with myself and say that even if I have what I believe to be a great idea about how Bitcoin should move forward, I'm probably not in a position to single-handedly turn an entire ecosystem on its head to implement whatever changes I might find favourable. Even in the unlikely event that I ever thought the same way you do about ASICs and pools, I would have to be an egomaniac to believe I can simply undo something that numerous people have invested time, effort and money into in order to nurture and develop. You don't just snap your fingers and undo the hard work of others. In fact, you can't in this particular instance. But you seem to think that, not only is it a piece of cake to completely decimate what is effectively an entire industry in its own right, but there are seemingly no moral implications to consider either. The only "good" is your good and anything else is unquestionably evil. It's that black and white to you. Reasonable people, on the other hand, may have
misgivings about pools or ASICs, but don't believe themselves to have either the power or moral authority to simply wipe them from existence as though they were nothing. Who the hell do you think you are?
Then there's the integrity of the Bitcoin network itself. If changes are to be made, they should
never endanger the security or decentralisation of the network. You demonstrate time and again that you have literally no concept of what those words mean. I don't need to start a "smear campaign" for people to see what kind of moron you are. They have eyes and are perfectly capable of seeing it for themselves. You would gladly sacrifice the security of the network for even a hint of a chance that your fantasies would come true. They won't, though.
Cry about it all you want. This is not censorship. People aren't trying to extinguish your unique and precious flame. They're just trying to talk some damn sense into you. But you flagrantly ignore them and keep spouting dangerous, ignorant nonsense. Then you act like the victim when mods delete your inane, whiny potshots meagerly disguised as casual conversation. You still genuinely believe that what you saying is important, but sadly you are the only person who seems to think so. And on top of that, you can't find a manner in which to express it that doesn't piss people off. To say that's not a winning formula would be an understatement.
Other assorted thoughts in the topic:
Look, some posts for some people are just like their newborn child, carried for months and labored with pain.
I'm sure you're very proud of your inbred mutant circus freak-show offspring. Doesn't mean the rest of us have to pretend to care.
desperately failing to address the most crucial problems in bitcoin
I'm not a developer, but I'm fairly sure that introducing much larger problems in the mistaken belief that it might fix something is not how development works.
Mocking users because they are opinionated on crucial topics is inappropriate.
Topics that are important to you personally
!= crucial. Perhaps you're confusing it with the word "
crusade", since you definitely seem to be on one.
I think your era, Maxwell and company era, in bitcoin will come to an end sooner or later and bitcoin will grow up to become what it deserves to be and historians will highlight this stupid claim of you people with exclamation marks and students will make jokes about it.
I think history is written by the winners and you are one of life's losers. It won't remember you at all.
