Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

Talking your book means you are a spruiker or common shill.

No, a shill is someone who is paid to entice people to take a position that may be contrary to what the shill believe, so that the shill's master benefits.

Adam Back at Blockstream employs a large team of PR people to "correct misinformation" about large blocks. These people are shills because they are paid to promote a position that they may not believe in, a position that is hurtful for BTC (high fees / unreliable confirms), but one that benefits the employer Blockstream (by creating demand for their layer-2 solutions).

When you say things like this you sound much more like a conspiracy theorist than a scientist. It weakens trust further in your position.

This is public information. Of course they don't call their social media outreach team "shills" -- they call them the social media community outreach team, or something like that. Remember brg444? He was one of their employees working to raise segwit support, and was let go after segwit was activated.

Do you really believe that Blockstream doesn't have social media outreach people working to further Blockstream's interests?

To say that Adam is some sort of PR mastermind overseeing a large organization of paid shills is ridiculous. Adam has very specific skill sets and PR - lets just put it kindly - is no way one of them. Roger is much much more capable of such action and in fact owns a social media paid to shill service. But even then, Ill refrain from speculating as to Rogers true impact. Conspiracy theories are lame.