Andreas Antonopoulos is why I’m here.

His 2013 and 2014 talks didn’t just orange-pill me - they convinced me to spend my life working on Bitcoin. I read his books. I went deep because he went deep.

Today, he supports spam on Bitcoin.

I didn't know about his 2018 'Mastering Ethereum' book until today.

Until today, he was still a hero.

Andreas taught me that Bitcoin works because YOU can run a node and decide what goes in it.

Now he’s backing something that is making this hard.

The lesson he taught me, verify everything, truly means verify everything. Even him.

The people who bring you into Bitcoin aren’t Bitcoin. The protocol is.

And the protocol doesn’t care about your heroes.

Maybe I won’t kill my hero today, but I’ll learn from him twice…

When he’s right, and when he’s wrong.