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weev 1 month ago
No, the criticisms of largeblockers were correct at the time. Plus Ver was not much different from Luke, in that he is on video comparing people who issued fair criticisms of him to Antifa, which is a listed terror organization. It’s maybe not bad as claiming Core is engaged in a conspiracy to distribute child pornography, due to being somewhat less lurid, but “my opponents are the terrorists” is logically not any different than “my opponents are the pedophiles.” “You’re better off using BCH” just brings Bitcoiners back to the initial debate against the large blockers, where they were trounced. The problem is that everyone transferred the correct and accurate refutation of large blockers into fallacious excessive support for Lightning. Just because Lightning is wrong does not mean we should now support a theoretically unlimited blocksize on the main chain.

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Exactly what I said. Use and keep Bitcoin with small blocks - it's a protection. Use Monero as digital cash. Use Ethereum/BCH where it serves its purpose. Ver was a late comer to BCH because he stupidly believed that one could argue and agree on certain things with Core/captured Blockstream, he then moved on stupidly endorsing the hijackers from the controlled opposition (you even citing CSW unlimited blocks is a testament for it). Through buying Bitcoin.com and the @bitcoin handle Ver destroyed a lot of credibility.