Odell, you used to be a hero to me in the Bitcoin community. The way you championed privacy and freedom tech (e-cash, CoinJoin, Mutiny Wallet, PayJoin etc) was inspiring. Your strong advocacy for freedom and your bold stance against KYC were important. You told those privacy-hating governments to go f© themselves. I loved that!
You seemed like a true freedom fighter. Now you don't take a clear stance in an important debate. It seems like you've adopted a more non-aggressive approach, avoiding clear expressions of your opinions and steering away from contentious issues. I first noticed this change in your stance regarding Saylor and open source development. Now I see you being quiet about the censorship and power grab by certain Core developers.
I hope I'm wrong. But it’s disappointing and disheartening to say the least.
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Indeed he's choosing not to think it through and have a real stance. Even his refusal to commit to Knots is not based on reason, just propaganda.
Sadge indeed
I think you're wrong. Even if you're right, it doesn't really matter. Nobody's perfect. Educate, don't blame. Start up a podcast. Its just not right to turn on someone the moment they have a different opinion or are not thinking through it on your schedule.
VIRTUAL ZAP! ⚡️⚡️⚡️(tried twice..."unable to zap")
in hindsight my position on saylor was probably too aggressive, half of bitcoin twitter hates me for that
my position on this issue has been clear and transparent, discussed at length on both my shows and nostr for over a year
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Do you even listen to Optech Review Pod...? Do you even look at the blockchain. A huge OpReturn ~4MB was mined early in the year.. and none since that I'm aware of (most likely becuase it is cheaper to add data in other ways, sadly also more harmful to the network.. Would be FARR better if they were using OpReturn.. And no, I don't think we should be sensoring, our sensorship resistant money!
Wish I could zap!
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