And he only achieved this effect through heavy self-promotion, and an uncanny ability to get himself onto privileged media platforms, such as televised Canadian Senate hearings or modern internet chatshow hosts like Joe Rogan. Andreas = an attempt at contriving a "Bitcoin establishment"
I expect it won't be too long until some issue or another prompts the sock-puppet armies to begin a chorus of "CHOOS THIS POLITICLA bITCOIN FORK COS ANDREAS ANTONOP SEYS, CMON GUYZ THIS IS ANDREAS TALKIN!!!!1"
Propagandists playing the long game are easily spotted, that's some 20th century BS.
All Andreas has ever done for Bitcoin is promote it to the mainstream. But Bitcoin doesn't need a salesman. Good products sell themselves. Someone should do a poll on a crypto gambling forum or darknet forum on how many people are into Bitcoin because they heard Andreas' rhetoric. Much more likely they were inspired by Silk Road or the Satoshi story.
