Michael Saylor is the master of persuasion. He moves the goalposts all the time. Little by little. Somehow Saylor managed to become the number 1 hero to many Bitcoiners WITHOUT ever embracing the idea of peer-to-peer cash.
Satoshi probably knew that this kind of dudes would appear, so he decided to start the white paper with the following words:
“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”
It seems it was not clear enough. Perhaps Satoshi should have written the keywords with ALL CAPS, so that when people like Saylor come to the scene and start talking about “digital property” or “digital Manhattan”, then Bitcoiners would have just asked:
“What the fuck dude?”
Just think about this:
Saylor successfully branded himself as the most famous Bitcoin maximalist without EVER embracing the idea of peer-to-peer cash. But at least in the very beginning he had sayings, such as “there is no second best”.
Now (just a couple of years later) Saylor has transformed into a total shitcoiner, who is excited about an imaginary Katy Perry token, existing shitcoins, crypto economy, digital assets, digital credit, et cetera.
If Saylor had talked like this when he first came to the scene, he would have had as much respect as Raoul Pal and the Bankless dudes have in the Bitcoin community.
But, thanks to the fact that he has moved the goalposts little by little, Saylor is STILL the most famous “Bitcoiner”. How the hell did he (they) do it? I cannot believe that Saylor came to the Bitcoin scene with good intentions.
This is Saylor’s keynote in BTC in DC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59vC4JxWIQU
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