Thank you for posting this. I don't know my ass from my elbow in this space but yesterday the conversation seemed to dramatically shift in ways I didn't fully understand.
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Luke thinks that NOT going along with his fork is sanctioning illegal data.
He didn't say HE would pursue legal action, he just said it was a legal threat.
Yes, that was my prior understanding of this debate. So when it was suddenly being framed as he's threatening legal action it felt weird. Seems like some folks are not debating in good faith.
Luke is an authoritarian and he always has been.
It is a threat. just to speak publicly about it is an implied threat.
There's always risks I suppose. But increasing the amount of non-money data on the block chain does seem to increase that risk, logically. I'm not sure what the benefits of doing that are?
And it seems weird that speaking of risk is framed as an implied threat. I speak of risks all the time and don't mean any threat by them, it's just an important part of risk mitigation. 🤷♀️
When someone is a publicly known figure, significant in a particular community, and they start jumping up and down and screaming fire about legal risks,
they make it MUCH more credible for an authority to bring legal action of that variety against the space in general.
and like most people who think they know better than everyone else,
I also dont think that leveraging the threat of legal force to make other people comply with How Things Should Be is beneath him.
I don't know enough about him to call him an authoritarian. I was annoyed with him saying that disobedience is a sin, then annoyed again when another catholic said the same, but incorrect theology doesn't make a person authoritarian in other categories. I still haven't seen enough to retract the standard benefit of the doubt.
I dont think you're looking very hard
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The more you learn the less you will like.
He believes that law is morality, so yes an authoritarian.
He isn't a Catholic he is some weird tiny offshoot of Catholicism.
I really hope this "committee that can roll back the chain" shit breaks the spell so I stop being the only person who sees that core and knots are both attacking bitcoin.
Where did he say he wants a committee that can roll it back?