I’m one of the people who unsubscribed from his channel and stopped watching his videos, even though I used to be among the first to watch and share his content. I only came across Matthew’s post because you shared it.

He’s mistaken if he thinks he’s losing followers simply because he’s standing up for a “just cause” that not enough people care about, while others only engage with NGU content. He’s losing followers because he’s wrong—and he doesn’t see his own contradictions.

You naturally lose respect for an educator when you realize they’re wrong but refuse to reconsider their stance, even when faced with clear evidence. In this very video, he contradicts himself. In a previous video, Matthew defended nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7cnjvghxjme0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcqyr7at68k4cxms9a7pdca5gzf3svqd95d3fj9j4vuyj0nyta8x3j2whad7ya 's statement: “If we have community support, no fork is necessary. If we don't, no fork is possible.” Yet now, he’s released this video about how to support the fork.

Matthew’s audience wasn’t made up of non-technical, non-maxi viewers who only cared about NGU. His followers were Bitcoin maxis and technically-minded people themselves. You can’t respect a Bitcoin educator or continue to support his work when you see he’s contradicting himself over and over again and still refuses to see he was wrong.