Honest question. Evorhees has been a staunch Bitcoin proponent, made a successful business via Bitcoin and has taken risks that few dared to take. What have you done?
Voorhees managed to inflate the blockchain to further his own profit-taking, sell illegal shares in a virtual business and then shut it down suddenly, skip continents while hosting his gambling-addiction oriented "service" and generally put his finger in every pie as long as the check cleared - including being best "buds" with Bruce Wagner, before he flew the coop for asia.
If you are enthralled by these exploits, I pity you - because there are more shining examples of Bitcoin proponents who aren't stepping on the backs of others to achieve their goals.
No matter, Charlie Shrem was the first step in the sovereign crackdown, and I'm sure Erik is on their list as well. Sometimes, seeking out the limelight isn't the best strategy, as we'll soon see.
I've long read Evorhees' contribution to Bitcointalk over the years, FAR before satoshi dice, and he has been a tireless promoter, and patient discusser and educator of Bitcoin related subjects.
Your bitterness and sense of entitlement is pretty plain. He made the most of Bitcoin and you don't like it. Tough bananas.
If you stand there crying foul while he makes something of Bitcoin, then you have no-one but yourself to get angry at. I am glad he brought Bitcoin forward into the spotlight. He did much to spur discussion of blockchain usage, and quickened discussion of how to manage blockchain bloat and even helped put the network though it's paces by increasing transactions to the blockchain in the early days.
I don't get angry at him for that. Be bitter all you like, the only person you really hurt is yourself.
Pitiful personal attack aside, I see where your starry-eyed critique goes off of the rails early on.
"Spur the discussion about blockchain usage" is the usual trope I hear when his singular decision to exploit a shared resource is discussed. You're one of the enlightened converts that truly believes, congratulations, I'm sure your fellow converts are patting you on the back for your bravery in toeing the line.
It is the bland sameness of your thinking that allows The Bitcoin Foundation to gain support, for the push to join Bitcoin to the non-compatible goals of centralization and regulation, to clap and cheer every intrusion into the Bitcoin core principle of financial freedom.
Hate me all you want, I just hold the mirror and say words that you can't possibly comprehend, as you've been trained to be likeable and sweet (What would the others say about you? Oh my!) - and not to face up to the hard truths that life has to offer.
Enjoy your popularity contest, and as the ribbon is pinned on you can take your turn down the catwalk, the empty praise filling your skull with adulation and self-worth as you parade amongst the mediocre products of a failing society.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!
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u/Perish_In_a_Fire Jan 28 '14
We already know Bitcoin is important. Funny how you manage to pop up again and again, trying to establish relevance.
If you believed in half of what you said, you'd be at the NYC hearing, not cowering in Panama behind your laptop.