Oh good grief not this again. Long-time HODLers tend to have much less dependence on bosses than your typical DC area pundit. We thus often exhibit an appalling lack of the standard organizational servility. This is often interpreted as conspicuous obnoxiousness. Deal with it.
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I don't think that rudeness is part of any strategy of playing to win. I think it hurts the case for Bitcoin, for freedom in currency, and, most of all, for libertarianism generally. Believe me, if it disgusts me (and it does), it discusses many more who haven't tried to engage.
And your rudeness and incivility, and the choices you make in who to uncivilly attack and which conversations you choose to derail for supposed lack of civility, hurts the reputation of the Cato Institute as being either civilized or libertarian.
