IMHO Saylor knows his stuff, and is a very sharp mind. He is only in his first bitcoin epoch tho, but ahead of most at that time. He also brings unique knowledge to the table. I think Odell has a conflict of interest in running his VC firm and OpenSats. Nostr could have done a lot better than it has, with the resources it was very kindly given. Especially wrt infrastructure. Ultimately he harms himself by not going full gun on growing the eco system, as much as he could. Saylor tends to be right, and he's not going to throw money at something that he cant verify is going to help. He also runs a software business and knows that most ideas are bad ideas, and well intended engineers trying to tinker with something normally break 2 things for every 1 thing they fix (nostr is getting that way), and he doesnt want bitcoin to go that path. Wise.
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It doesn’t matter how long you been in bitcoin! Even if you are 10 years in here it doesn’t mean that you are the smartest or can’t scam people. My whole point is that it’s everything about NGU and pumping the bags and they don’t give a shit about devs! Devs for them are just as tools unfortunately! Also comparing Saylor and Odell doesn’t make too much sense. Clearly Saylor has more experience in business world than Odell with his tiny fund
2 engineers review twice as much code than 1 engineer. Going path with just 1 engineer, not wise.
I would push back that Bitcoin lacks privacy and eventually scaling. I think Saylor has a conflict of interest in Bitcoin not developing so he can offer a banking solution to scaling. It's in his interest for Bitcoin to be state sanctioned to minimise regulatory risk. It's also in his interest for society to be highly governed to provide security for his billions.
