Ultimately I agree with your conclusion that Gavin his not coming off as trustworthy
I think you should quit the ad hominem attack. You are hurting Gavin and Bitcoin in general, this adds absolutely nothing to the debate.
If I said, "you stupid fuck, you probably have no morals... blah, blah, blah" without any further explanation, then that would probably be a personal attack, because the argument is aimed at the person and has no backing.
On the other hand, in my post (that you fail to provide the context), I describe how I came to such a conclusion, and that is based on Gavin's demeanor within a referred to "let's talk bitcoin" episode. Below, for ease of reference, I provide more of the context in which I made my assertion.
You, bitebits, may want to consider the effect of your own chiming in, in which you fail/refuse to include the relevant context, and accordingly, you are likely way more engaged in an ad hominem attack (towards me) as compared with any semblance of an ad hominem attack that I arguably may have made towards Gavin and the supposed denigration of bitcoin.
Further, whether individuals contribute or take away from the current controversy or the image of bitcoin is quite a mind-fuck of variation and even confusion, and I would argue that even though some of my posts may come off as confrontational, poor logic or even misinformed, they are a hell-of-a lot higher caliber than a number of other posts in this space because a large majority of the time (likely more than 95% of the time), I attempting to make my points from my own genuine perspective and not engaging in trolling or shilling activities, which has become quite wide-spread in bitcoin talk forums in recent times.
I listened to the whole show, including the first couple of minutes as you described.
I also made a posting about Gavin.
Here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg13896428#msg13896428Ultimately I agree with your conclusion that Gavin his not coming off as trustworthy; however, those first couple minutes are not a true indication of anything except that the question was a kind of attempt at a joke in which the moderators were mocking various claims made within the bitcoin community. Maybe Gavin did not know that the question was coming, but it was clear that everyone knew it as a softball set of question.. to start out in kind of fun and to show Gavin that largely the moderators did not believe the outrageous claims against Gavin.
Anyone in the public eye in bitcoin realize that many unfair claims are thrown at persons in the public light, and so with those starting off questions they were largely empathizing with him.
I hear you about Gavin's kind of nervous laugh in the beginning and around those two questions, but since Gavin was not really being challenged, without knowing more, it would not be fitting to read too much into the initial nervous laughing in that short context.
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