I have watched what happened with Udi a million times in Bitcoin. I have been around since 2011 (and yeah I should have bought more lol) and early Bitcoinners came for the greatness of the idea, or maybe just to buy weed on Silk Road, or like me play poker on Seals with Clubs. And then they got suddenly rich, by, in all honesty, a total stroke of luck. This causes a strange sort of dissonance in humans. It differs based on someones personal biases and weaknesses. Some people go "hookers and blow" mode. Buy Lambos etc. Some get like Smaug the dragon and sit on their hoard looking down on all challengers.

And others need to construct a world in which THEY got rich thanks to their forward thinking wisdom, while the newer folks were just lucky. This is Udi (and was, for example Chris DeRose, if you remember him). These folks construct a "there goes the neighborhood" narrative and claim that Bitcoin used to be something that it no longer is, and that they are pointing the way back.

This is complete bullshit. They were lucky just like the people who came later. And Bitcoin is not anything people want it to be. It is not an exclusive club. It is not something that the "great wizards" can bend to their will.

And EVERY TIME one of these folks tries to do that they get the exact same thing Roger Ver got when he decided he wanted to remake Bitcoin in his own image.

Humiliated, and possibly even felted as we poker players call it.

I wish it was not necessarily so. But I enjoy the show regardless.