Funnily enough, a big cheese in the early Bitcoin era is noted crazy person Luke-Jr, who released his own fork of a client that censored SatoshiDice because he is a sedevacantist Catholic who hates gambling.
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
honestly when you put it that way sedevacantist catholicism is completely on-brand. Lots of schism about weird ideological points that don’t matter and have no real world effect.
Lots of the off-the-rails conspiracy weirdos make me sad. Even Yudkowsky makes me sad. I deeply resent that I know enough about sovereign citizens that I can’t just point and laugh, because they ruin their lives so much.
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
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
Funnily enough, a big cheese in the early Bitcoin era is noted crazy person Luke-Jr, who released his own fork of a client that censored SatoshiDice because he is a sedevacantist Catholic who hates gambling.
That sentence was a journey and its final turn was unexpected.
I’m low-key fascinated by Luke-Jr’s craziness, but it’s kinda sad because apparently he has multiple kids.
Since BTC went mainstream these people just don’t have as much impact anymore.
honestly when you put it that way sedevacantist catholicism is completely on-brand. Lots of schism about weird ideological points that don’t matter and have no real world effect.
Lots of the off-the-rails conspiracy weirdos make me sad. Even Yudkowsky makes me sad. I deeply resent that I know enough about sovereign citizens that I can’t just point and laugh, because they ruin their lives so much.
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.
Heh, “They can’t even be Catholic without being Protestant” is basically the same thing jewish twitter used to say about Edgy Online Atheists.
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
Bet you the same people are jonesing for starlink
he’s also a geocentrist
Impressive commitment to the bit.
being good at computor turns out not to correlate with any other personality characteristic
my child self cannot believe that every futurist blogger and sci-fi RPG would lie to them like this