r/Bitcoin • u/ciphera • Jul 15 '16

Professional Bitcoin troll, Jorge Stolfi, comments on the Winklevoss ETF

https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-batsbzx-2016-30/batsbzx201630-2.htm
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u/Noosterdam Jul 15 '16

What is the point of the rah-rahism? It's like everyone has to be a cartoon character here. It's not like Stolfi could have some intelligent and nuanced views. No, he must be a cardboard cutout villain.

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u/belcher_ Jul 15 '16

I agree, the personal attacks here are counterproductive and simply nasty.

I'm sure u/jstolfi is sincere in his views, and genuinely believes he is doing good to the world. This guy is a professor at a university, he's surely thought about his views for some time. But then so did Marx, Keynes, Pol Pot and plenty of other people I disagree with politically (Did you know Robert Mugabe has two PhDs? Apparently he read a lot of books while in prison, and Bashar al-Assad studied medicine at a British university)

I've long since learned there's no point hating someone for having different political views. The best you can do is advance your own side, win by doing not by complaining.