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103 sats \ 9 replies \ @DarthCoin 5 Dec \ parent \ on: The True and Accurate History of Toxic Bitcoin Maximalism bitcoin
Please do it. It's an amazing piece of history of Bitcoin.
It's just so big. I feel like I've only read 1/3. Guy was prolific.
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It is but not all blog posts are really about Bitcoin or related.
There are also some discussion in the comments too.
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Yes, I think this is why I hesitate. I wasn't around at that time, and I don't want to get it wrong.
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To be honest I learned to be maximalist from him, around 2013.
I have to look into my old bookmarks, I think I saved an old MP post that inspired me.
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I would be very interested to see which posts you think are relevant.
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A nice "fuck off" letter from MP to the gov
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I read his IRC output daily for a few years and operated a trading bot on MPEx for six months. Mircea tolerated me at first and eventually hated me, even going so far as to sign a message that I was attacking his republic or something. Parts of the IRC logs are quoted on his blog, although there used to be sites where you could read the daily logs of the IRC channels; these splintered apart after his followers went their separate ways.
Honestly I think you should limit your scope, otherwise there is too much to cover and plenty of noise obscuring the information you'd want. Pick specific aspects of his life, or even specific episodes of his public involvement with Bitcoin, and focus on those.
Your detachment from the events is actually a benefit in this case; anything I write would be incredibly subjective.
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operated a trading bot on MPEx for six months.
confirmed retard
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I never said it was my account.
One of the "beta testers" had shares there and paid me out of the profits. Several folks suspected that Mircea was running volume boosting bots and that most of the trading activity was from them, and if that is the case, then my program simply increased the cost of faking this activity.
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