Here's the thing about @mattkratter, it took him a long time to understand #Bitcoin. Just like it did for most of us who now call ourselves Bitcoin maximalists.
As far as I can tell, over the course of his understanding he went from ignoring Bitcoin, to trading it, to playing with shitcoins, and finally to becoming a toxic bitcoin maximalist.
You know what I haven't seen from him?
I haven't seen any sign of selling his name to a sponsor.
I haven't seen him use his position as a bitcoin maxi to promote a bitcoin affinity scam or layer 2 nonsense.
I haven't seen him grift his way into a bullshit position as a BiTcOiN AdViSoR at some second rate Bitcoin trashury company.
In other words, all I have seen from him is a steady, progressive, and irreversible understanding of Bitcoin as money, a refusal to budge from that stance, and a willingness to put his name and reputation on the line to keep Bitcoin the hardest money man will ever know.
The Bitcoin space would benefit from more bitcoiners like Matt.
This is the exact problem with a lot of Bitcoin influencers.
You acknowledge arbitrary data is an issue and that there’s even a “civil war” brewing over node policies… then immediately downplay it as “spam gets priced out”, warn against consensus changes, and close with “everything will be okay”.
Meanwhile you’re regularly shilling Blockstream hardware with affiliate links.
When someone who profits from sponsors with clear positions against stricter spam filters starts softening the language and framing real defense of node sovereignty as “panic”, it stops looking like neutrality. It starts looking like protecting relationships.
Bitcoin doesn’t need more “relax, the market will fix it” takes from people with skin in the game. It needs people willing to call the threat what it is.
I think this isthe path to BIP110. The workers basically have to quit their current job with an abusive employer and go freelance with @ocean_mining. I can relate to this. The goal of the abusive employer is to pay you just enough to give up on your personal ambitions in exchange for comfort. That's FPPS. TIDES is like mining freelance. You eat what you kill.
- Why do moderators delete posts about Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 in this reddit r/Bitcoin?
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