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657 sats \ 4 replies \ @elvismercury 11 Oct 2023 \ on: Intercontinental energy grids. 🌎←♻️→🌍 bitcoin
I think he took far too much SPITEFUL criticism, it felt like bullying, and you absolutely want young people like that adding to collective intelligence (think wisdom of crowds theory) even if you don't agree.
My take is that whatever bullying he took was a reaction to the btc podcast irrumatio when people who should know better swooned over him. He blathers so confidently through his evolutionary biology fast-talk that you think he's maybe saying something really smart.
Nope.
He deserves way worse than he got, as far as I'm concerned. In fact, I'd suggest you should be more annoyed than you are, because now any smart person, young or otherwise, who could make a novel contribution to the field will be a) dissuaded and b) come across as noise to a group that was already cripplingly over-reactive to anything that isn't orthodoxy.
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102 sats \ 3 replies \ @mallardshead OP 12 Oct 2023
😂 Yeah the evo biology stuff went on for like half the book. It was for the worst. The transaction censorship resistance stuff for nation states was something I'd been thinking about prior. His podcast arrogance I haven't experienced (don't think I ever heard him talk). His lack of information regarding energy economies is where I believe he ran into trouble. Kept thinking he would confront that in the book but he didn't.
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @DeltaClimbs 13 Oct 2023
He ran into trouble because he is an arrogant moron who doesn't understand the basics of bitcoin, but talks and writes about them anyway as if he had anything of value to say, like you with energy
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @mallardshead OP 13 Oct 2023
Lowery understands the "basics" of bitcoin dear Delta. You often speak in hyperbole to drive points. This is unnecessary. Are you and Sudonaka friends by chance?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DeltaClimbs 13 Oct 2023
Wrong. Thinking mining is of strategic value to a nation, that owning mining allows "securing other things/data" or whatever gibberish he said, among the many other things others can point out all are "basics". Hyperbole? You handwaived over the foundational costs inherent in raw materials and didn't bother to run the numbers, but pointed out a fantastical vision for a grid. YOU DID NOT EVEN DO THE NAPKIN MATH THAT MATTERS FOR YOUR OWN PET THEORY. Hyperbole is all yours.
Don't know him.
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