1) How did you gain my respect? I enjoy people with brains, and who have a playful wit around serious things, and that made you an excellent ambassador for our cause. Your presentations are technically excellent, projecting an image of competence to the public, and that's good for Bitcoin. You seemed to appreciate the revolutionary nature of what we are doing, essentially destroying the rapacious fractional reserve system. And your way with words went beyond wit, with your ability to explain complex ideas in a way that new people, if reasonably intelligent, were sure to understand them.
2) How did you lose my trust? Your attitude when interviewing Jameson Lopp was the jpeg that collapsed the electron bridge, but I saw the same sort of thing in other broadcasts and notes too.
a. You absolutely failed to ask Lopp a single hard question, not even the one that literally screams to be answered: What in the goddamned Hell is the "emergency" that requires such a contentious change to be pushed through at all costs, when we've done just fine without it for forever? Other unasked questions: Why do we (not just suddenly, but _ever_) "need" such an open and obvious attack vector? Economic incentives don't stop hostile intelligence agencies and other state-level or Rothschild/banker-level entities, do they? Why is this being falsely presented as non-contentious, when it is extremely obvious that it is the most contentious change in years? Your interview was very chummy and had a lot of understated nudge-nudge attitude implying (without overtly saying so) that opponents of the 100kb playground don't really know anything. Even if you think that the critics of the change are wrong, it is, I think, an abdication of responsibility not to ask those obvious hard and to-the-point questions. It's especially troubling coming from you, whose words have held such clarity and grasp of the essentials in the past. It feels intentional.
b. You say things like "We podcasters have your back" to someone taking wildly extreme positions and making personal attacks on innocent people, as if that's all right, and especially as if all podcasters agree, when they _very obviously_ don't.
I could go on, but that's enough. My wife and children and I will be touching grass and hemlocks for a few days, out of range of the āNet, but will be back in a few days.
