• @gerikson
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    9 months ago

    I’m low-key fascinated by Luke-Jr’s craziness, but it’s kinda sad because apparently he has multiple kids.

    • he opposed “big blockers” (the proposal to increase the Bitcoin block size beyond 1MB) because he lives in rural Florida and has bad bandwidth. (The big blockers subsequently created “Bitcoin Cash”, tried to get it the ticket BCC, but did not succeed because that was used by scamcoin Bitcoin Connect. They also missed registering /r/BCH, which was instantly squatted on by anti-Bitcoin Cash people)
    • in the beginning of Covid he washed all fresh produce in bleach
    • he proposed Tonal as Bitcoin nomenclature: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tonal_Bitcoin (1 bitcoin-bong, anyone?)
    • he lost a lot of coins in a scam in early 2023: https://gerikson.com/m/2023/01/index.html#2023-01-02_monday_01

    Since BTC went mainstream these people just don’t have as much impact anymore.

      • @gerikson
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        9 months ago

        Fair warning, I’m not a Yank and am culturally Lutheran (but personally areligious), so take this editorializing with a pinch of salt, but it does seem like performative tradcath is a facet of weird online culture

        https://gerikson.com/m/2022/08/index.html#2022-08-10_wednesday

        Also agree re: SovCits and other subcultures, these people can really hurt their family and that’s not cool.

    • @selfA
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      59 months ago

      he opposed “big blockers” (the proposal to increase the Bitcoin block size beyond 1MB) because he lives in rural Florida and has bad bandwidth

      it’s always fucking Florida

      there’s something quaint about the pure crankishness behind blocking an important change to a global network you think will revolutionize everything because you might not be able to mine at home with your 1 Mbit of shitty Comcast cable internet and for whatever reason don’t want to move into even a cheap data center. just shitty mining on a shitty connection forever and fuck everybody else. when ex-crypto folks tell me the block size decision was when crypto got too stupid for them, I didn’t imagine it’d be this level of stupid

      • @froztbyte
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        59 months ago

        Bet you the same people are jonesing for starlink

    • David GerardOPMA
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      49 months ago

      he’s also a geocentrist

      • @gerikson
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        59 months ago

        Impressive commitment to the bit.

        • David GerardOPMA
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          39 months ago

          being good at computor turns out not to correlate with any other personality characteristic

          • @selfA
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            49 months ago

            my child self cannot believe that every futurist blogger and sci-fi RPG would lie to them like this