With due apologies for the double-post, I request guidance that should surely be useful to others:  What is the appropriate forum for creating threads about CW/BSV, for analysis and advocacy from a Bitcoin perspective?

Please don’t tell me to go to altcoins.  This is a Bitcoin issue, and I’m trying to protect Bitcoin.

Some of my intended discussion will go to the Ivory Tower, including some essays I’ve had simmering on the back burner for awhile (now adapted to deal with issues that I was ignoring).  I’m not asking about those—some things are just Ivory Tower issues.  And I already created a relevant topic in the forum which is the opposite of Ivory Tower.  (Note my use of a different writing style.  I even use smileys.)  I am looking for something in the middle:  A forum regularly watched by the types of people in this thread, but open to everybody, but with fewer shitposts and higher S/N than Bitcoin Discussion.

Where should we organize and advocate on this issue?  Perhaps I should propose the creation of a “Bitcoin Advocacy” forum; would those reading this thread support that idea?

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My +20 to gmaxwell was not mere grandstanding.  Ignoring Craig Wright as a clown was catastrophically naïve on my part.  I see this now—now that I am actually reading BSV propaganda.

Craig Wright is not Craig Wright.  Somebody must be pulling his strings; read between the lines.  And the agenda being pushed is one that is backed by extraordinary intelligence, in multiple senses of that word.  —Also, backed by unlimited resources.  I now believe that Wright is only a tool, who will be discarded if BSV does not bring the desired results—meanwhile, of course, he can pocket as much money from this as he can grab, without fear of arrest or lawsuits.  If my theory is correct, as long as he serves his purpose, his handlers would not care about the money or what he does with it; they have bigger fish to fry.

(And at this point, I don’t think that Gavin was stupid:  I suspect that he was compromised.)

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The draft of one of my not-yet-published essays opens with the observation that Bitcoin has a fatal flaw; and I continue with some personal discussion of why I’m not “Bitcoin rich”:  I spent years casually watching Bitcoin as an intellectual curiosity, whilst assiduously avoiding use of an append-only global public ledger—an idea which frankly horrified me.  (My proposed solution is Lightning.  By the way, observe who hates Lightning and the Layer-1 technologies that enable it.)  BSV agrees with me, after a fashion:


Orwellian word-twisting and imposter-claims aside, the quoted portion is correct:  Bitcoin, as originally designed, is an anti-privacy technology.  I saw that years ago.  That’s why I am poor.  I am not revealing non-public information by pointing out that “nullius” appeared on the Zcash project forum before appearing here.  The Zerocoin paper caught my attention in 2013, and I am too patient for my own good.  I am not advocating Zcash here—to the contrary!  Lightning makes “privacy coins” obsolete.

The biggest incentive that I can think of to keep Bitcoin’s design “set in stone” is to retain its anti-privacy characteristics.  BSV openly, explicitly declares that this is its agenda!  WAR IS PEACE.  FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.  FINANCIAL SURVEILLANCE IS PRIVACY.

Wake up, people!  This is not about Craig Wright.  This is much bigger than a scam to grab money (though Wright is no doubt enjoying that ancillary benefit for himself).  It is a strategy to impose KYC-GovCoin by the backdoor, with the explicit public approval of “Satoshi Nakamoto”.  Financial surveillance is “Satoshi’s Vision”.

[Edit:  Need a mass-appeal meme graphic with a creepy-looking photo of Craig Wright and some imagery suggestive of Nineteen Eighty-Four:  “Satoshi’s Vision:  ‘SATOSHI’ IS WATCHING YOU.”]

Now, please, let’s not discuss that here.  Instead, let’s figure out the right forum for new topics about these issues; and I will take it up there.