The cryptocurrency community has come out in force against the latest activities from self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright.Wright: Anyone Unable To Afford $20,000 Node Should ‘Piss Off’
The Australian computer scientist Craig Wright’s talk at the Future of Bitcoin conference in Arnhem, Netherlands on July 1 caused considerable uproar with its content, as well as the speaker’s choice of language, which was laden with expletives and perceived as threatening. In particular, Wright took aim at Bitcoin Core developers and those running smaller nodes.
During one of Wright’s many contentious soundbites on the topic of SegWit and Bitcoin scaling, he told audiences:
"If you’ve been in Bitcoin since 2009 and you can’t afford a $20,000 node to help this network, piss off."
He added the $20,000 hardware was the same as that used by his business, nChain, and was a bonafide example of scaling.
Other moments from the talk saw Wright tell an audience member to “mind their own business” when asked whether he would sell his coins in the event of a hard fork.
“I have financial sovereignty,” he repeated, also refusing to confirm or deny whether he was Nakamoto when asked directly.
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