He's a delusional man with a world view far disconnected from the reality the rest of us live in. He's made Bitcoin all about himself and his savior complex. He and his followers are lobbing wild unjust accusations at anyone who won't toe the line with his delusional narrative. My allegation that he is a pedophile supporter is more grounded in reality than his side running around saying anyone who doesn't run knots is running core because they want to start a CSAM collection. They don't deserve that false moral high ground. All of this is a distraction from discussing the technical changes he's supporting. It's intentional and they don't deserve to have their changes go by unargued. Why distract? Because if he stood up and said "I want to be able to rollback and hard fork the bitcoin chain when transactions I object to get validated into blocks" he'd get laughed out of the room. From day 1 knots was created to attempt to censor transactions he didn't like. The only thing that changed is he is asking everyone else to change so he can censor harder and "improved" his marketing by upping the ante to CSAM instead or regular porn like he started with.

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As I said, I don't follow Luke, but briefly searching for some related posts, his argument doesn't appear to be CSAM on the blockchain = all noderunners are paedophiles, but instead that this is a legal matter that will end in jail. IANAL, but I don't think this is correct (in the USA at least), though the framing is important. I do agree that his ultimate intentions are likely for greater censorship and I wouldn't personally hire him to run a hotdog stand, but I reiterate that it's not acceptable to level accusations like this against a guy with 11 children using his real name. Vigilante justice is real. Once again, if there actually were evidence this would be a different story
Luke Dashjr's avatar Luke Dashjr
No, your framing is dishonest. Respectively, each scenario is: - no CSAM: no jail - no CSAM: no jail - no CSAM: no jail - CSAM: jail
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I never said he was an abuser. I said he supports an organization that has sheltered and defended abusers. That is your reading comprehension fail. Some of his followers are absolutely 100% making that allegation about core runners on here.