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51 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 17h \ parent \ on: My Response to Steve Patterson (BCash) on "Hijacking Bitcoin" - Bob Murphy Show bitcoin
I was familiar with him from his non-bitcoin work. He's a very thoughtful guy, but it seems like he would benefit from just talking to some actual bitcoiners.
I don't find any of these kinds of arguments compelling, even if they were true. Like you said, who cares what anyone intended or how we got here? It may be academically interesting, but we are we are and bitcoin is clearly still the best thing going.
Exactly. These "Satoshi would have..." arguments just sound religious to me. Not rational. Not market based. And not technically sound.
In a religion where your deity is the source of truth it does matter what they "would do or say". For a software project it doesn't really. Bitcoin is not owned by anyone. No one has authority unless the node operators decide they do. He made no mention of the power of node operators to decide which version of bitcoin they will run.
He just comes off as ignorant to me. Not dumb or scammy.
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I know he was really into bitcoin prior to the Blocksize Wars. I feel like this is reflecting a psychological inability to process that loss. He may have been scammed with this version of events, but he's not trying to scam anyone.
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