everyone knows that if you want to stay top of mind you have to stir up the pot sometimes. i’m not ashamed of admitting that. we do it often
but we actually put a lot of thought into how to do that without being ACTUALLY disruptive
sure we’ll inscribe the odd 4mb jpeg to get the idiots on twitter riled up and get them to imagine we’re breaking bitcoin. but we’d never ACTUALLY try to break someone else’s system — we try to quietly support many teams of builders in bitcoin, including “maxi” teams
we’ll go on stage in miami and dance onstage in wizard outfits in the yearly normie-fest to get people to cry about it. but we wouldn’t do that in an actual dev conference where people go to work (often voluntarily) and try to make bitcoin better. instead we support and sponsor those
we’ll encourage our community to take over social media and promote OP_CAT, but we EXPLICITLY warned them that they are NOT allowed to spam and brigade the Bitcoin Core github pages. even though there are many things i disagree on with bitcoin core contributors, they are hard-working people trying their best. we’re not here to make their lives difficult. you will not find a single Taproot Wizard or Quantum Cat holder harassing devs on github, and that’s very intentional and not a coincidence
contrast that with assholes like “ocean pool”. this lame excuse of a company does nothing useful other than lighting investor money on fire. EVERYONE KNOWS BY NOW that no one ever thinks of ocean pool unless they’re dragging bitcoin core through the mud for some bullshit
their entire marketing strategy is harassing a bunch of young men and women who are trying their best to do valuable work (at way-below-market-rates, if not entirely voluntarily)
they could voice their opinion on twitter and cause a circus there (like we often do) but that’s not enough for them. they intentionally and explicitly encourage their retarded supporters to go harass core devs at their work place on github, because whenever they don’t do that, everyone forgets that their shitty company even exists
say what you want about our style on social media… it works. you may not like it but we’re good at what we do and we know why we do it. but we INTENTIONALLY do it to basement dwellers on twitter. we don’t do it to open-source devs at their workplace
be better ocean pool. stop harassing kids.
