Given everything that’s been happening in the space recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of misinformation out there and even gotten into arguments with some people about them. I started writing a blog post going through it, even though I don’t really enjoy writing nor do I consider myself a good writer. I realised it was taking too long and it really wasn’t worth my time so instead I thought I’d just write this short post that got straight to the point.

If you are someone who wants to discuss Bitcoin (facts and tech) then I’m always more than happy to. However, I really don’t have the time or patience to deal with people who think they’ve got everything figured out and ridicule anything or anyone else without even listening to them, or people who only wanna talk discuss CSW memes, stupid Twitter posts, and Bitcoin price fortune-telling.

Honestly I can’t really blame some of these people much since there is so much misinformation out there and most people don’t have the time to filter out the noise and really figure out what’s happening. If I wasn’t doing this full-time for a while now, there’s no way I would’ve been able to understand Bitcoin the way I do . It took countless nights of binge learning with an intense hunger and passion. Despite that, some people have really gone too far. They make it seem like Craig is the only person in BSV and all he did was change the blocksize limit in the code to 128MB, wrote a couple of medium articles, got Calvin to pay Twitter “shills” to promote BSV, and called it a day. Completely ignorant of the truth and that there are actually people passionate about Bitcoin working to build and bring Bitcoin to the world without getting involved in the childish politics of the “crypto community”. Are you really that naïve? Wake up. Do your own due diligence. And no that doesn’t mean doing a two minute Google search and coming back with a post from Reddit “proving” that Craig can’t code. I already know he can. Some stupid post on Reddit that I’ve probably already seen isn’t gonna change that so please don’t waste my time. Also, I find it ridiculous how there are actually people who aren’t technical enough to understand something as simple as SPV (section 8 of the whitepaper), but think they’re entitled to such a strong opinion about Bitcoin that they can shove down other people’s throats just because they bought some Bitcoin in 2013. Learn to introspect, it’s one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten.

I don’t really care what some people think about Bitcoin (BSV) or if they think it’s a Ponzi or a scam. If they actually opened their eyes, they would realise that no one is trying to convince them to buy it nor is anyone pressuring them into HODLing or “buying the dip”. Most people in the Bitcoin (BSV) community are just working head-down and building the future they want to see. I didn’t really care what people thought as the tech should just speak for itself and anyone who looks at it objectively (without being blinded by hatred) would understand this sooner or later. But it has gone too far and gotten to the point where too many people are ignorantly spreading misinformation and it was getting very annoying.

BSV is nothing but Bitcoin unchanged, unaltered, and unbounded.

I have many friends whose opinions about Bitcoin are highly influenced by Saifedean Ammous; as are mine. I agree with a lot of what he says. However, if you actually listened to Saif objectively you would really think he is advocating for BSV, it’s hilarious. The most important argument that BTC had against BCH was that once you change Bitcoin once, that opens the door to any other arbitrary changes. But there is a big difference between changing the protocol and changing the code. That is something I really hated about BCH and I did not agree with the scheduled fork every 6 months. However, that argument completely falls apart when BSV is added to the equation. Removing arbitrary limits in the code when done properly is not a change to the protocol. By February 2020, the changes (P2SH, opcodes re-enabled, etc.) will be reverted back to the original and all limits removed. Bitcoin will be unfuckened and set in stone for the rest of its lifetime with transactions remaining valid for centuries to come. That is not the case with a soft fork like SegWit for example, which is still a big change but somehow some people are convinced it’s not. There is no such thing as a soft or hard fork the way people make them out to be, a change to Bitcoin is a change to Bitcoin. The more the Bitcoin network grows, the more resilient to changes it becomes. A scenario where a bunch of trolls with $25 RaspberryPi’s, PoSM (proof of social media), and no skin in the game can change the protocol with a stupid UASF is no longer possible at scale.

Bitcoin works, stop trying to change it. If you wanna spend your time trying to “fix” problems Bitcoin doesn’t even have (or rather wait for them to be fixed which is more often the case), that’s up to you. By the time you figure out how to make the Lightning Network (LN) usable because right now it’s ridiculous (which I’m not convinced is possible because the issues in the LN are fundamental issues not implementation issues), we will have forgotten it ever existed. And by the time you figure out how to make zero-conf “completely secure” by changing the protocol a million times, we will have forgotten that was ever an issue.

I understand it’s easy to fall victim to the groupthink and quickly brush off BSV as scam with all the misinformation and manipulation there is out there, especially when you’re blinded by your hatred towards Craig. I must admit that in the past, just like many of you are doing now, I would neglect anything to do with Craig and repost funny memes about him. But it was not until I actually started really paying attention to him did I realise how ignorant I was. It’s very difficult to admit you were wrong and it’s even more difficult to admit that your investment was wrong and stop losses there instead of spending even more money trying to get it to work. I’ve seen this happen firsthand with people very close to me. You don’t have to like Craig or Calvin but that really has nothing to do with Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the most inclusive network in the world probably only second to the internet. That’s like hating and choosing not to use the internet because you don’t like someone else who is also using it and building something on it.

If you really think that BSV is useless or whatever then please just ignore it the same way we ignore the countless shitcoins and dead-end projects out there. You just can’t seem to do that, can you? Instead many are trying to discredit it and get it delisted off of exchanges. Makes you wonder why all of these people feel so threatened by it. I wasn’t even really fazed about BSV being delisted from Binance; would be better to be disassociated from the casino exchanges whose whole business model revolves around ignorant fools buying and selling scams to each other. Crypto social media has been disgusting recently. I left Reddit for a reason. Too much noise. The same is happening with Twitter and a lot of people are migrating away towards a better solution can can be built using Bitcoin. “The problem stems from the socialist commons that people try and say is the open Internet”. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Nothing is free.

I’m seeing more and more people support Bitcoin (BSV) every day. I’m not surprised. If you understand Bitcoin and do your own/enough due diligence you will eventually come to the same conclusions, sooner or later. It’s just a matter of time. Unlike some people, I don’t really believe that there is some conspiracy with people intentionally trying to attack Bitcoin. I think everyone truly believes that they are doing the right thing for Bitcoin, given the knowledge they have at the time. But people “should take the approach that [they’re always] wrong, [and the] goal is to be less wrong” over time (Elon Musk). This is a constant learning process. It never stops. I really have to thank Craig Wright for bringing me up to speed on a lot of concepts about Bitcoin, economics, law, and more. Honestly, I really don’t care whether or not you like him, this is not and was never about personalities. This is about Bitcoin. The sooner we realise we are all one team, the better it is for everyone.