Re: Analysis and list of top big blocks shills (XT #REKT ignorers)
For now, dump your evidence and/or observations (or even just the case you feel showcases the most obvious shilling) in this thread! Preferrably concisely summarized, though the more detailed and hyperlinked the better.
To my mind, the most obvious case is VeritasSapere. What is the probability that this guy is not employed full-time by a group whose goal it is to destroy Bitcoin? The username itself seems like a clue.
There is no evidence of shilling on either side of the debate, so what is the point in per suing this line of argument? Accusing other people of being shills without evidence is just ad hominem and not conductive towards productive discussion.To my mind, the most obvious case is VeritasSapere. What is the probability that this guy is not employed full-time by a group whose goal it is to destroy Bitcoin? The username itself seems like a clue.
It does the opposite of strengthening your cause since you are just revealing that your rationality is weak by supporting such "conspiracy theories".
In Orwellian slave-think, "conspiracy theories" is a euphemism for "cannot possibly be true, so I'll ignore it".I could just as easily accuse certain small block proponents of being shills for either blockstream or governments. I will not do that however since accusing people of such things without evidence is wrong and it is more productive to stick to rational discussion, logic, reason and what can be known instead of futilely focusing on the unknowable.
Unknowable, huh? I would not have gone beyond "unprovable". It can be known with some degree of certainty by apophatic inquiry.I can explain what my alias means. It is latin, I am also a history buff as well as having a political philosophy background. Veritas means truth and it was also the name of the main character in the movie "V for Vendetta", the mask that he wears has now become a symbol for the cypherpunk movement and anonymous movement as well. Sapere is a bit harder to pin down in terms of meaning, but it can be described as knowledge, or a thirst for knowledge. I took it from an older phrase which is "Sapere Aude". Which means "dare to be wise", which has significant meaning in terms of enlightenment and philosophical thinking. So you could translate my alias to mean something along the lines of "A thirst for true knowledge". 
Well, let's then test whether that is true. You obviously have a lot of spare time (or is it work time?), given your posts on this forum, so certainly you have time to increase your "true knowledge" regarding "political philosophy" by researching the information from other researchers who also have "a thirst for true knowledge". So let's start with these two:Mark Passio Interviews Larken Rose - The Religion of Statism (a very short video)
Apply your "dare to be wise" philosophy so that you can come to understand the true nature of "politics", "government", and "authority", so that you may stop operating under ridiculously false premises such as...
Quote from: VeritasSapere
Since I do think that the block size limit should be increased, and right now I have to choose between Core or BIP101, I choose BIP101, even if it a choice between the lesser of two evils. This is a case of political realism. In political thought the lesser of two evils is often the pragmatic reality we have to accept in order to even justify the existence of the state, and we should not think that 90% consensus is practical considering how democracies actually and practically function.
LOL! Why the hell would you want to "justify the existence of the state", especially in these terms, unless you are a proud, ultra-dogmatic, foaming-at-the-mouth slave?Just because I know how the state is justified it does not mean that is my position on the subject. You need to understand something before you can criticize it, after all.
If you have studied political philosophy you would know that this is how the state is often justified. Think of Thomas Hobbes Leviathan and his state of nature, or John Locks response in his treatise on government. Further on in John Stuarts Mills writings On Liberty. The idea is that government always represents a sacrifice or compromise of our freedom, philosophically the only form of governance which has true freedom is anarchism. I understood this before I discovered cryptocurrency. I still think that good government is possible, its just that it requires a highly enlightened civilization and culture in order for it be functional. Cryptocurrency has changed my ideological objective you could say since it has made possible what was previously impossible, in regards to political theory.
This has changed my ideology over the last year, so I presently describe myself as a crypto anarcho libertarian. The goal is anarchism (freedom), this possibility is enabled through crypto (technology), and the practical strategy is libertarianism where we shrink the government down over a long period of time until it possibly ceases to exist completely, most likely in more then a century from now.
I would further add that it is actually irrelevant what my own personal political philosophy is in regards to this discussion.
... and join the human race.
Yet you are the the one attempting to dehumanize me.