Well said buddy! I would add his ridiculous criticism of the grassroot Brexit movement and praise of the totalitarian EU as factors which put him closer to a statist than a libertarian.
We'll fight back with words
We'll back up our words in futures/prediction markets
We won't platform the contentious fork propaganda
We'll fight self-custoding our sats
We'll fight running own #Core nodes
We'll fight with our BS blackmail resistant hashrate
We'll crash the #knotsis
Bitcoin's immune system has clearly misfired and created an autoimmune condition attacking own cells... That's what happens when hatred towards shitcoins clouds rational thinking and creates hysteria.
CSW is gone but knotsis took the baton from him and the harassment of Core devs continues... it's a pity though that they don't want to fork off BLV and let the market speak
"Bitcoin Core's view (going all the way back to Satoshi, AFAICT) is that Bitcoin is a system secured by economics and self interest.
The knots vision of Bitcoin seems to be a system (in)secured by altruistic hope and populist theocracy-- by cancel culture and paper straw bans."
HRF's Finney Freedom Prize laureate