When Mindrust "mindrusted", he quietly left the WO thread.
But this new troll death_wish just never shuts the fuck up, spewing walls of garbage and nonsense.
Actually I think we may have laughed at him too much. Literally made a meme out of the man. Hopefully not the reason he left. :/
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.
And I know that outside of WO, mindrust himself showed a tendency to turn on people the same way he had turned on Bitcoin. It was shocking at the time. In hindsight, it is unsurprising.
Wow.
I don't recall evidence that contrary in regards to mindrust as a bad person.
Maybe I was hanging out in the wrong circles?
I do recall that mindrust had shown several times of weakness prior to March 2020 and usually during extensive period in which the BTC price was correcting and/or failing to go up... which were likely just signs of his having been over invested rather than him being a bad person.
I recall that there were some periods right around March 2020 in which members were wondering if mindrust was telling the truth about actually having had sold all his coins, which then leads to questions about whether he was telling the truth about buying the coins in the first place.
I hate to get into accusations of character flaw based on evidence that he sold at the bottom.. that just seems to be too dramatic and unnecessary, to me - especially for an incident that had some personally based motives that may well have had to do with being overinvested (or investing more than you could afford to lose) and more than 2 years ago and also some gratefulness that he shared his some of his financial and psychological details (to the extent true)..
I doubt that mindrusting was anything as dramatic as the arguable betrayals of Mike Hearn or Gavin Andresen or Craig wright or roger ver.. but even if any of those folks wanted to be in bitcoin or get back into bitcoin, bitcoin will not stop them.. even if they lost credibility in quite a few bitcoin circles.
From what I know, it seems to me that mindrusting could happen to any of us, and for sure there seem to be strategies to lessen likelihoods that mindrusting might happen, but any of us could end up in circumstances in which some variation of mindrusting ends up happening.. seems to me...