Nick Szabo  🔑

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.

I'm sorry, Nick, but HODLers aren't exempted from the normal rules of civility, which are not, despite what they may think, peculiar to DC (quite the contrary!). And I deal with it by refusing to put up with it, as I would with any other persons.

There's a pathological one-way version of these "rules" where authority figures in mass media and at DC "think" tanks get to ridicule the unwashed masses ("deplorables"), but the unwashed masses must be "civil" (i.e. servile). We don't play by those "rules". Deal with it.

I don't expect everyone to be civil, Nick. I know better. I do expect civility from well-known experts, like yourself and Saifedean, who hardly qualify as part of the "unwashed masses." I also expect them not to encourage or apologize for incivility in others.

Some of the most well-known "experts", better known and with much better pseudo-scientific credentials (e.g. "Nobel" prizes) than Saf or I, have treated Bitcoin people with great incivility. Who knows what these "rules" actually are since your own peers do not abide by them.

I'm uncivil with Twitter trolls, but I've been nothing but respectful of Prof Selgin for more than a year of waiting for him to elaborate his criticisms of my book, to no avail. I'm not responsible for what others say to him but he's responsible for not providing his arguments!

Gary North was one of the great anti-Bitcoin Austrians https://www.garynorth.com/public/11828.cfm …. I have a feeling that none of them want's to break ranks and risk taking Bitcoin seriously because it will hurt their reputations in the group. They're almost all Computer Illiterate; a big problem.

I wonder how many of them can spin out a full node and appreciate the absolute beauty of what's happening in front of their eyes.