Nick Szabo  🔑

"Serves no purpose"?! WTF?! Good grief you are one of these vile creatures: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/10/hello-kitty-people.html … You have outed yourself as an enemy of Bitcoin security. Blocked.

Nick, I'd urge you to reconsidering blocking Hasu. He's a potent and thoughtful Bitcoiner.

to the triggered people below: bitcoin will fail if it has no intellectual diversity. ideas need to be fought over in the market, not ignored and feared. luckily, the puritans have no control, and they're not persuasive.

I agree with the previous tweet but “bitcoin will fail if it has no intellectual diversity” isn’t very meaningful. Bitcoin doesn’t have intellect, it’s an asset class. Stakeholders will be diversified because.. why won’t they be? and the occasional block has nothing to do with it

Bitcoin isn't an asset class, it's a property registry and a value conveyance mechanism. Given that it still changes, a healthy debate is important and eugenic (in terms of yielding good outcomes). If it were totally ossified then we could abandon debate. But it's not.

Exactly: “but it’s not”. and there’s no reason to think it will, which is why I said it’s not very meaningful to say bitcoin will fail without intellectual diversity. It will also fail without computers but why is that interesting?

I also encourage Nick to reconsider blocking Hasu, because I like both and I think it’s a loss for Nick. But it’s not harming Bitcoin in any way

I don't think the block meaningfully harms Bitcoin. You're knocking down a strawman.