Quote from: Cøbra on April 09, 2018, 02:35:03 AM

Someone finding Bitcoin Cash useful for a particular use case (payments) doesn't mean they're immediately some raging "Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin" crazy person. Right now I keep most of my money in Bitcoin, and some spending money in Bitcoin Cash, but if the fees get high on Bitcoin, as they sometimes do, I can just pay for things with Bitcoin Cash since adoption is reasonably good. It's ridiculous how there's no longer any nuance left in the community. Everyone's so ready to chase anyone out of the community just because they don't hate on Bitcoin Cash with the same fierce fiery hatred.

I haven't done anything evil with my access, ever. In fact, I've been extremely aggressive in preventive efforts to harm actual evil like XT, Classic, BU, NYA, etc. It's disappointing how prominent people like Gregory Maxwell and Samson Mow have helped in spreading vicious rumors that I've been compromised or sold my account. Despite what you read on Twitter, there's no history of me doing anything malicious to harm the Bitcoin community. It's all just a smear campaign organized by people associated with Blockstream.

I can assure you all that nobody will ever see anything evil put up on bitcoin.org or bitcointalk.org. The fact that something so obvious needs to be stated is a testament to how so many in this community have become paranoid and are in a state of permanently waiting for the next "enemy of Bitcoin" to show themselves.

I figured it would be something far more innocuous than the last topic-turned-witch-hunt about this suggested. And for my part, I apologise for my views being swayed by that thread, causing me to question your knowledgeability without hearing your side of the story first. The tribalist mentality is indeed getting out of hand, I'm in full agreement there. This almost certainly stems from people focusing on the personalities and not the ideas.

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

It's also disconcerting that there are those would immediately resort to a route of denying someone ownership of their property over a difference of opinion. Ownership is a fundamental tenet of crypto, so it really makes me wonder if many of these people truly understand all this. I find their stance far more dangerous than any controversial views you've expressed. At the end of the day, saying something controversial is not an act of guilt. If it was, I'd have been put away long ago. Cheesy

Quote from: Lauda on April 09, 2018, 07:50:47 AM

Quote from: Cøbra on April 09, 2018, 02:35:03 AM

It's disappointing how prominent people like Gregory Maxwell and Samson Mow have helped in spreading vicious rumors that I've been compromised or sold my account.

You can't reasonably believe that unless you have proof. Source?

From the other half of the witch-hunt on reddit:

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I get the impression that cobra sold his credentials last year: He put up some sketchy warnings about the binaries on bitcoin.org then went quiet for a long time. (...)