This forum is bigger than WO.  And it hosts discussion other than price speculation.

mindrust generally represented himself as if he were an ideologically motivated Bitcoiner.  As if he embraced Bitcoin for noble principles.  He talked the talk—for years, he talked the talk!  Some of us were shocked when he didn’t walk the walk.

I know of several different forum members who were then very active outside WO, who despised mindrust for mindrusting, and who gave him hell about it elsewhere.

I know of at least one forum member who had never before posted in WO—never even set foot in here—who suddenly showed up in WO after mindrust mindrusted.

I know of people outside WO who reacted first out of shock—with a deep sympathy for mindrust—then later, out of disgust that far from coming to his senses, mindrust systematically reneged on much of his own prior preaching.


For mere investors who are only in it for the money:  You are obviously under no obligation to risk or sacrifice for my principles.  If you practice buy-and-hold purely for risk-management reasons, then strategize accordingly about how to handle crashes.  If you’re a trader and Bitcoin crashes, you stop-loss.  No problem—just try to do a better job of it than mindrust, whose panic-sell was pure foot-shooting—not a savvy trader’s stop-loss.

And just remember that the value of your investment has ultimately grown from a vanguard of zealots:  The idealists, the activists, the hard core of Bitcoiners who sincerely believe that “1 BTC = 1 BTC” motto, “Be Your Own Bank”, “Not Your Keys”, and so forth.  The ones who want for Bitcoin to change the world, to make the world a better place.  Bitcoin wouldn’t even exist without such people!  Be grateful that the product of their noble idealism has given you the opportunity to take profits in the central bank shitcoins that you thoughtlessly fetishize.

At least you have the honesty of being candid about what you really want from Bitcoin.  I sincerely wish for you to enjoy a tasty profit unless you short Bitcoin on the spot market, in which case you should burn in hell; short the perp if you want to short BTC!.

mindrust did not have that honesty.