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Emin Gün Sirer @el33th4xor
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I've lost track of the number of independent people who have confirmed our predictions. And here we are, with a certain you-know-who, spouting #technobabble and promising that something will happen in the future that will prove him right. And the latter never happens.
I never thought I'd say this, but "kudos to rBitcoin, for detecting the cancer and cutting him off." They did it with their centralized censorship. Time will tell if BCH can do the same, without censorship.
The guy may or may not have keys to Satoshi coins. Whether or not he'll be able to access keys and pay his supporters back is a business issue at this point. The actual con is on the community, having convinced the gullible that his words have technical merit.
So even if we ignore his track record, even when we examine his words on their own merit, we find a bunch of #technobabble and falsehoods, pushed in a coordinated fashion through sockpuppets, that are scientifically shown to be bullshit.
And something embarrassing comes out every day. Today's new finding was that he actively plagiarized 6 pages of technical content from two Chinese authors:

reddit.com/r/btc/comments…
This would be career-ending, if only he had a career.

Collecting money from @CalvinAyre and spending it on PR, sock puppets, and sowing internal discord within BCH are not a career. So they will not end.
Some people have a "reverse-Midas-touch," where everything they touch turn to crap. This person has been suggesting unsound modifications to BCH, claiming faster-than-light confirmations and the like.
The BCH community is working very hard on adoption and technical progress. There are critical new developments coming in May.

In the meantime, how it deals with this craziness, how it excises a man with the reverse-Midas-touch, will be a test of its communal immune system.
If it cannot excise the craziness, BCH will turn into a cult that believes, literally, that a number that is made smaller and smaller can suddenly turn into a large negative number. #NegativeGamma
Read that again. Those words actually make sense to people who did not take math beyond high school. That's his target audience.

If you let that guy design a plane, it'll crash. A bridge, it'll fall. A cryptocurrency, it'll lose consensus and fall apart even without an attack.
I believe in the BCH community's ability to excise the insanity. And I have seen, first-hand, its efforts at increasing adoption. I remain convinced that BCH will be able to route around a sociopath with sock puppets. It already did once.
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