* nullius dons moderation hat.
I should have known better to have IRL concerns drawing me away from the forum just after hv_ tested the waters again...Deleted two posts filled with lies, half-truths, and assorted disinformation by
jbreher:
http://loyce.club/archive/posts/5397/53972154.htmlhttp://loyce.club/archive/posts/5397/53973685.htmlThe posts are preserved for anyone to examine—because I am not Craig Wright, who evidently likes to memory-hole
his own writing when convenient:
Fascinating. Clicking that link finds the following:
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
https://medium.com/@craig_10243/ccbe22f2637e
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Sorry.
This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.
I also find it curious that jbreher managed to very selectively quote-mine this thread, and yet...
You seem driven by illogical emotion.
[...]
Another illogical emotional outburst?
...avoided seeing this point which bears repeating, plus similar notes:
If you insist on defending Bitcoin with
only facts and logic, then you will confine Bitcoin advocacy to a few obscure forums inhabited mostly by crypto-coders and technology enthusiasts with robot-logic. Thus will you surrender Bitcoin to those whose weapons are
only emotional and psychological manipulation—unavoidably, to such swindlers as Craig Wright. Observe that with no facts on his side, and with no logic on his side, he successfully persuades many people who
do not think through facts and logic.
I assure you that the emotional impact of
my Anastasia essay was fully, consciously intendedand moreover, intended to be exemplary:
This is how it’s done, folks! If you want to defeat the psychological support on which Craig Wright builds his hollow lies, then
find ways to wrap true facts and sound logic in an emotionally evocative form of argument, delivered with a rhetorical eloquence measured according to the audience. (On that last point, observe that OP was authored with much simpler language than this explanation, kept short, and bracketed by pictures.) Then, you will have the winning combination that Faketoshi lacks: The facts and logic that he lacks,
plus a potent weapon against his manipulation of people who neither verify facts, nor coldly reason from premises to conclusions. Under the weight of your logical iron core wrapped in passions, Faketoshi will implode as an empty shell.
Blackhat Mindhacking 101: Exploiting Wetware Insecurity[...]
Nullian Rule: To exercise fully independent judgment in the face of opposition requires that one’s humility be inversely proportional to the strength of the opposition.
And the delicate Internet tea-party debate-club members would never dream of using
ad hominem argumentation,
even when it is objectively correct! Need I remind you that
argumentum ad hominem is only an “informal fallacy”, and is not at all fallacious when personality and personal credibility are relevant tono,
are the issues being argued?
Oops, I forgot that. I became so “logical” that I
feel like I should avoid anything
ad hominem.
[...]
Dr. Wright has been expertly “verified” by the Bitcoin Chief Scientist. He also has some peer pressure on his side. hv_ and his buddies are Internet nobodies; but then, I’m the guy who named himself “of nobody” on the Internet. Who am I to call hv_ such nasty names as “shill”, “liar”, etc.? Him, and plenty like him (
a dime a dozen)... Who am I to stand against Dr. Wright
and the Bitcoin Chief Scientist
and a crowd of folks? Authority plus peer pressure!
*again When
Dr. Wright sounds so sure...[...]
Maybe my eyes are lying to me, or maybe I made a big mistake—and then everyone will laugh at me, because the sky actually
is green, and
the Earth is flat, and
2 + 2 = 5, and Dr. Craig Steven Wright invented Bitcoin, and I’m just so stupid that I didn’t realize it.
* nullius is suddenly feeling so insecure. :-(
Moderation note: Posts in this thread may be deleted according to my mood. And I am in a bad mood. Please be kind to Anastasia, and honest toward Satoshi. Thank you.
As to Craig Wright, of course, the only question worth addressing is
the threshold question of a verifiable signed message from Satoshi.
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