@awemany
The aren't too many posts where I feel an urgent need to respond to like this one.
Thanks, I feel like it is all quite bit pointless lately myself, so I should probably find something better to do. Like help
@Tom Zander with the Wiki rework, or in general, documentation. For example, in
@Peter R.'s latest post on /r/Bitcoin, Greg brought forward a somewhat valid point that xthin is not documented in full detail, mixed with, of course, his usual corrosive but effective attack strategies. That is of course, not meant as denigrating to
@Peter Tschipper 's work - but we
are simply a small team still.
Imo, you have been highly highly instrumental and effective in countering the technical FUD coming from Greg & Adam.
Examples include the On^2 debate, general coding, mempool construction, and UTXO set commitments to mention just a few. There are precious few who can stand toe to toe with those guys in technical areas . I do my best but it's not my training.
Thanks a lot, it does mean a lot that you think so! I do feel I have maybe just above a 00.1% impact on the blocksize debate, however it still feels very tiny :/
The point where I really felt that there is really major
psychological manipulation going on was with the mempool bullshit. I mean, everyone on reddit was basically convinced and even bigblockers were parroting the 'yeah, yeah, bigger block probably means more network load' bullshit.
I do not fault anyone here, as I have been convinced of that bullshit for myself at first, when I reentered reddit from a bit of a hiatus. It felt so obvious, and everyone so convinced. Mass psychology. Only one of those 'stress tests' woke me up.
I am certain nullc and folks were aware of this and psycho-engineered the discussion accordingly, in the meantime. This woke me up and told me that one has to counter their bullshit as much as possible. There are other STEM people, also additionally some not represented here (like I believe /u/ferretinjapan, who's arguments I value) with a similar state of mind and urge to fight the bullshit, I think.
But, I do not read the code daily. I do not have the financial means (yet?) to stay on top of every little change, confusion and complexity Core adds to the code.
I feel I do grasp all the basic concepts as well as nullc or Adam does or any other of those band-members. I feel many do, in the end.
But I also feel I cannot keep up with the latest shenanigans and changes they do to Core. They have $70e6 in paper money to fight us, after all. All day long. With many turrets and lots of firepower.
Greg knows this, obviously, and thus tries to (unfortunately, often successfully) pull people into highly technical but in the end quite off-topic discussions, to prove his point of superiority. I am usually able to avoid that trap, but it does repeatedly make bigblock-aligned people (or are those sometimes false-flag trolls?) look bad.
This is all still very much an uphill battle, I feel.
So please don't give up. We ARE winning the war.
I have no intent of doing that, even though I have recurring bouts of pessimism. (I guess optimism as well). Ignorant, divisive miners like Samson Mow dancing the mickey mouse dance is everything else than encouraging though, to further explain my pessimism a little bit.
Jihan studied psychology (I think I saw that on his twitter) so I hope he's able to have some insight that dividing and trampling on a large, maybe largest fraction of the community isn't helpful for his cause of an appreciating Bitcoin price and a healthy community further driving that.
[doublepost=1465242254][/doublepost]Hint: if kore thought r/btc wasnt important to post in, they wouldn't be flooding it like they are.
This I think is very true. However, they are also limited and thus motivated for further action and consensification by a fog of war as well . I feel either side is not really up to speed what is going on in the minds of the miners - and even core seems to have a bit of a noisy connection to them, given the recent rise of a more self-assertive Jihan Wu.
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that's an interesting correlation i'd never thought of.
[doublepost=1465244692,1465243948][/doublepost]here we go!:
Along those lines: They guy you were arguing with today on reddit (forgot the nick right now), he had a strange fixation with doxxing people.
. It's all those who rely on ignorance and censorship to make there point that are having a problem with the facts.
