As I said: "Clearly not surprising."

The problem isnt him alienating anyone. The problem is people fell for his bullshit. Again. Nobody to blame except themselves for being easily conned dupes.

The problem is that most bitcoiners are fairly ignorant. And apparently have short term memories.

For the people that actually remember the hell Gary Gensler put this industry through, US government creating a strategic bitcoin reserve or not makes no difference.

Under the Democrats, not just led by Gary Gensler, but led broadly by the entire Democratic contingency any bitcoin business was literally crushed in this country and being driven offshore, they promoted people like Sam Bankman freed and crushed anybody that was attempting to innovate they were on the verge of making self custody, strictly illegal.

I read posts like this and I think to myself it’s very sad how short term peoples memories are and how much weight they put in a fairly stupid thing a bitcoin reserve for government is not significant or important.

The right to self custody the right to sign your own messages the right to use a lightning network right to hold non-KYC #bitcoin

As my father always used to say you got to learn to keep your eye on the donut and not the hole

I wish I could believe him but I don’t.