Honestly, Darth is a dick but he's also great to mess with and really get going. He knows I work for Congress and has kept a screenshot of me talking about it to call me a government cuck. So in return for all his BS he will comment I just comment to him that I love him and the government loves him to and well he stops after raging for a bit lmao

I was offended by Darthcoin once... Then I got over it and moved on.

NO I don't agree with everything he says, or anyone else for that matter. But that is the beauty of Bitcoin. It was born out of financial crisis, is available to all, and the confrontational environment it flourishes in is the reason it will succeed.

Some of the saltiest, grumpiest people I've encountered have a lot of knowledge to impart to others... NOT because they are always right (in fact sometimes they are wrong) but they have been around a while and have seen a thing or two.

At that point it's about... "what to adopt" that we see in others - adopt the good, dump the bad and be your own person with your own values drawing your own conclusions.

Bitcoin has to survive the confrontational/winner takes all environment of an internet forum... because if it cannot flourish in that environment it will never become the trade-medium of the BRICS, and of the world, which is its real future eventually.

People here have a strong mindset and don't mind what Darth is saying or posting. But I'm not ashamed to admit that I felt like a victim. I've always been a lurker and rarely shared my thoughts online. It has benefitted me by helping me explore the best sides of the web and learn amazing things, but the downside is that I can't digest trolls. What he does isn't just trolling, it’s outright abuse and it affects me a lot. A lot. The things he posts can't be called trolling it's pure abuse and harassment.

I never thought I’d consider leaving a platform just because of being trolled. When it happened to others and I read articles about "how to deal with trolls," I always thought, "Why even care about what random people say?" But now that it's happening to me, I understand how hard it can be to deal with it sometimes.

I asked him a simple question: Who is he to tell others what they need to do? Does he own SN? That’s when he got so mad he started spamming my posts and comments with his garbage and attacking anyone who dared to support me. I’m really sorry, @Desertdave, @IamSINGLE, @LowK3y19, and @coinsreporter, for dragging you into his abuse because of me.

I don’t know what his problem is, but I can tell you he’s very disturbed and seems like a lone wolf. Maybe his family doesn’t love him, or he’s never received the kind of love we all have. He spends over 12 hours here daily, continuously, which shows he’s likely a hikikomori. I’ve started ignoring him now, and he’s desperate for a reply so he can keep going, but he won’t get one from me anymore. He’s sort of succeeded in spamming me, though. You can see that hardly anyone comments on my posts or replies to my comments anymore because he’s been at this for days. Thanks to his reputation, people blindly believe him.

My encounters with darth have been pretty good and in most cases I consider his rebukes to be the tough love of someone super passionate in the space. Even though he may come off a bit rough sometimes, he's usually pointing to something true.

Let the man cook.

Man, this is just funny.

I got to know Darth when I was a noob umbrel router. was searching for guides, run into his, and asked him if he wanted to open a channel together. The response was like: "what the fuck, what is your node doing..." he made a lot of "requests" to fix my node and then MAYBE he will open a channel with me. It was a long list, and i went to fixing and learning. he answered all my questions, helped me learn new things... my node flourished, and thanks to his advice, now i run only private nodes.

Another time, in a bitcoin telegram channel, I said something with poorly chosen words, and he lit on me like he knows with shitcoiners. was really funny to me, coz he misunderstood my message.

Over time I learned a few things that not many stackers know about him and then he clicked to me.

If you know the latino passion and temperament and his background, I can only feel respect and gratefulness to have him around. can be sure he's not going to sugar coat and will tell you to the face what is necessary, like it or not

I'm just going to exactly do the contrary as you do: to mute you and everybody in this thread giving you support.

He never bullied you, but you are actually bullying him. For anybody reading this, look at this thread from above and analyze what you see: people using "nice" words to passive attack a guy which has written literally thousands of guides and has massive experience of Bitcoin and governments. What are your contributions? Just speaking about being offended by somebody that actually tells the truth about you and people of your ilk.

I'm tired of people who only focus on the forms, and not the substance. We have a name for this in Spain, we call them "ofendiditos", which I guess it means the easy-ofended-fools. Those fools talk about tolerance, while they can't tolerate whoever tells the truth about them. Those fools talk about being bullied, while they bully the same or worse, and search for other fools alliances. Those fools that fall into all traps but get offended when someone points to them they have actually fallen into one.

So, thank you. I proceed to mute you fools.

Darth is a self-proclaimed toxic AnCap. He knows what he believes and why he believes it and AFAICT, he suffers from conviction.

For those who don't understand anarchism, capitalism, or self-ownership, I can see how his words would be considered an attack. He feels that the statist beliefs of others are an attack on his individual sovereignty so he pushes back on any of it in a toxic manner.

I've never felt attacked by him but that's because I agree with most of what he says. Do I always agree with how he says it? No but just because we don't like to hear something, doesn't mean that is's not true.

I like Darth. We need him even if we hate him.

LOL, when Lord @DarthCoin is not around they beg for his return!

I honestly consider @DarthCoin to be a fucking hero. It's difficult, yes. But who isn't? Besides, he's so awake that it's normal for him to see everyone as garbage with no salvation. And I understand that too.

I'm not saying this for anyone in particular, but in general for anyone who feels like a victim of @DarthCoin

This is so whiny. “Feel like a victim” is exactly the problem with our current times. His MO is literally Darth Vader! Darth Vader hurt your feelings?? Be glad you don’t live on Alderaan.

But the funny thing is DC was probably trying to help — you were just too stupid to realize it… 🤷🏻‍♂️

He's a character...

If you haven't had a run in with darth are you even SNing?

I think it’s good to talk things through.

First time I heard about @DarthCoin was in @lunaticoin’s podcast. I noticed his character quickly. These two people have helped me a lot in my way in bitcoin. Later on, read him on SN and that led me to his Substack. Darth guidelines are gold in paper and they are open to anyone who wish to learn. I do not know how much they could be valued but I am sure that a lot of sats, if he wanted to earn them. So I am really grateful for them. I am just a beginner here but I enjoy every single thing I can learn as I haven’t got a dev background nor tech one.

On the other hand, we are all here to learn and also to have fun. For me, everything in sports is giving me a lot of fun. So I would happy to keep participating in all pools over there, but I fully understand some people may not be interested in them. Fair enough, don’t participate.

Finally, I also support darth’s view of getting rid of the leaderboard. I think is only a way to create more conflicts. Write a post , if someone likes it they will send you sats. Perhaps it may make things healthier.

Sticks and stones. Just don't argue back. I've never had a problem with DC. He has the best guides and is usually correct in the end.

You are just the feeder of these assmilkers. You are part of the problem.

meh - honestly, looking thru the thread, OP comes off as overly sensitive, a few others glom together being snide, and Darth mostly seems on point - i don't have hard evidence as such, but over time it's become apparent to me that there are various trolls and spooks roaming here - personally, i don't mute, and rarely engage too much for it to matter anyway, but it might be something for you to reflect on that some accounts here are inauthentic, for a variety of reasons (if indeed yours is an authentic account, after all...)

You have to love him or hate him! He is the anti-hero we do not deserve, but need.

I'm from the old era of the net, and so I don't worry about the Darthcoins of the world. I've seen um come, and I've seen um go.

You don't owe anyone here your time or attention.

You're right to take control over your experience of SN. @k00b, @ek, and the other devs have built many tools for us to do so.

He is a maxi character but the good thing of SN you can mute.

I hear you and truly understand how challenging it must have been to face such negativity, especially when you were just trying to find your place in the community. Just ignore and keep shining.

It makes me laugh when DC fights and insults, I don't know, I have a shell in my feelings, maybe thanks to where I come from, not all of us handle those situations the same way, obviously it's uncomfortable when someone is insulting you all the time, but as I tell my daughter "you know who you are, you shouldn't give a shit what another person says about you". I respect DC's work and his wisdom, that doesn't mean I'm going to let him trample me, but in the end this isn't real life, you don't have it in front of you and it doesn't affect your life (unless you decide so), you can silence yourself and move on. I like that SN is a platform for free expression, in fact on many occasions I have mentioned that one of the things I like the most is that people here are kind in 98% of the comments and if someone doesn't agree with your idea sometimes just moving on and ignoring is enough. What I don't like are scammers, that's why I suggested downzapping scamming users, maybe someone will come up with a better idea than mine to remove or condemn that kind of behavior on SN. There are several angles to look at, the other option is to leave SN as it is and behave like adults, take responsibility for our decisions, if someone asked for sats for food or whatever and another staker decided to believe, then that's their decision, in the end nobody forced them and they are sats that came out of their own pocket, so there would be no reason to get involved in matters that don't concern us. If another user harasses and bothers you, blocks or mutes you, let's make adult decisions.

I don't like that part of DC's personality either, but he's right about a lot of things, especially when it comes to assmilking and the rewards gamming using multi-accounts. I never really worried about it because I always thought that k00b was in charge. I don't know if this is the case anymore. Just so it's clear that I'm not defending anyone, fortunately I have the ability to ignore what doesn't interest me. I distinctly remember replying to him (fuck you) in my 22nd item!

i didn't even know SN had a mute function, learn something new every day

This is a good reminder, regardless of the person we’re talking about it.

Words hurt when they touch on an insecurity or area where we feel vulnerable.

Words from behind a computer seem to cause more anger when we’re not looking eye to eye in conversation.

I really believe all of us are in this together, every human has a part in where mankind will go. I hope to see this space welcome a new way of being (and a new money system of course) for all who are looking for it.

We should never talks about people but about situation

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I think the same, freedom of thought is important!!! And without a doubt it is one of the fundamental bases of S.N... and that is why I am still here because I learn on my way to bitcoin and because valuable and true information is shared here..!! Now I cannot deny that at some point I have been able to read the discussions that have been had at some point in @Salón Stacker and I have laughed a little😅

It's interesting that this has over 100 comments a a decent amount of sats and it's nowhere to be found on the top or hot pages. Maybe it got a lot of downzaps? I have no idea how that works. Sometimes I share stuff that has way less engagement and still makes it close to the top of the list. I don't get it.

People that are bullies are just people that can’t deal with their own insecurities I feel bad for darthcoin the way he bullies I can tell he has so many insecurities

His experience and knowledge are the excuses of his nasty demeanor! so then a bad memory is associated with bitcoiners, leading to "inferiors" self-censoring, instead of been pleasantly convinced. He's shutting people down instead of sharing the joy of the freedom Bitcoin gave us, neither is he encouraging people to live in a better world and leave the worse ones behind, if fact, he tells them to go back into their stupid choices. People connot be authentic and DC is blinding himself to the authenticity of others. His "******** detector" fails him even if he thinks he has special powers.

Freedom is the individual's power to make his own choice. We should respect other people's decisions. No matter how perfect Bitcoin is and how corrupt other systems are, we all have a choice to make for ourselves if it means consequenses or paradise. DC said, "...pretending to be bitcoiner" but what makes a bitcoiner a true bitcoiner? Bitcoin doesn't care if you dabbled in altcoins or how you discovered Bitcoin. It's for EVERYONE. If Bitcoin's pricipals were DC's character, Bitcoin wouldn't be Bitcoin. DC doesn't represent what Bitcoin truly stands for.

What happens to an unkind pilot? He goes down with the plane, unfit to be a leader and a toxic associate to his fellow team members. His self-censored co-pilot will not help him even though he is aware of the faults that will doom all on board.

Let us love one another as Jesus loved us. I encourage us to not hold DC's offences toward us against him. He has a chance to change.

He is forgiven in my book and I welcome him with recieving arms.

Oh my! Your post is now invaded by his Sockpuppets and NPCs!

I kinda like it because he's zapping himself and increasing the daily rewards.

I don't feel I'm a victim and I never complained about DC to anyone. I sure don't like him but I also don't hate him because I'm not here to spread hatred.

I simply suggest everyone to ignore him and yesterday was one big example I wanted to set. Let me explain.