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by bhaak 2087 days ago
It's the other way around. Just because somebody is good in one area that doesn't mean they have any authority in another, unrelated one.

Putting people on a podest and excusing untolerable behavior is plain toxic.

It is not wanting that everyone needs to be a PR polished suit, just wanting that people are decent human beings.
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justinmeiners 2087 days ago
> Just because somebody is good in one area that doesn't mean they have any authority in another

Precisely what I am saying. We can applaud Nick for contributions to cryptography without importing his views of other things. We don't have to weigh his political opinions at all.

> just wanting that people are decent human beings.

This sounds to me like "having views I like, because only undecent people would think otherwise". Do you have an instance of Nick being nasty or indecent?

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bhaak 2086 days ago
> This sounds to me like "having views I like, because only undecent people would think otherwise".

Yeah, that's a sentiment you hear a lot in political discourse these days. But if you follow cryptocurrencies, you wouldn't get far with this attitude. The combination of technological, financial, and political issues that make up this field draw a lot of different people to it. Including a lot of wackos, often even with a cult following. So you need to have a good filter to find the interesting stuff.

But I followed him long enough to notice that there is no interesting stuff anymore and some of his content was showing uncomfortable character traits to me, so I unfollowed.

> Do you have an instance of Nick being nasty or indecent?

This Twitter thread by somebody else is a good start.

https://twitter.com/OneAdamReese/status/1270108913111691264

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justinmeiners 2086 days ago
The intent of that thread is to peer into his tweets to associate him with an untouchable "white supremacist", as opposed to any particular wrong doing. That's not even a description, it's just a reason to dehumanize someone.

> so I unfollowed.

I completely encourage that.

I'm not asking for his political views to be platformed, just that we treat them separately. In other words, it's not in bad taste to respect Nick for a Bitcoin opinion, even if what else he has going on we believe or even know to be incorrect.

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