People are saying on the ETC Discord that I don’t respond to objections lately, and that I only insult on social media.
This is true and this is why:
1. Brandolini’s law [1]: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit about ETC is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.
It is astounding that I am finally seeing even small YouTubers understanding the ETC principles and history, after years of trying to correct the many fallacies in the marketplace, but in this Discord there are still OGs and “experts” still entertaining ideas like the Treasury; ETC Hash; that lil miners “deserve” to mine in GPUs; that Charles is some sort of GOD “because Cardano number go up” even if he failed several times in ETC; and that developers “deserve” to be paid as if ETC were a corporate enterprise and not an open source POW blockchain.
I have made my mind, I am right, I am tired of educating the many idiots in this Discord, they are wrong, so I have very lil desire to “debate” with them anymore.
2. The great majority of the ETC OGs and “experts” are fiat and corporate thinkers, even if they have been in ETC since 2016.
THEY STILL DON’T GET IT.
So, their ideas and openness to discuss bad changes to ETC is not really “openness” and “intelligent debate” but a security whole in the ETC network. Therefore, their willingness to entertain the bad ideas, and to welcome the worst attackers to ETC in its history, is, in itself, an attack on ETC.
And, attacks on ETC deserve to be rejected in the most aggressive and strongest of ways, including what many call “toxic” behavior [2] because the supposed toxicity is really the ONLY way to reject such attacks. This is the nature of decentralized systems. If etiquette and corporate manners were the norm, then the ones with money and academic and diplomatic abilities would win regardless of the disastrous effects of their proposals.
References:
[1] Brandolini’s Law (the bullshit asymmetry principle): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
[2] Blockchains: What Some See as Toxic Others See as Security: https://etherplan.com/2019/05/29/blockchains-what-some-see-as-toxic-others-see-as-security/7679/
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