Gavin has a darker side that the wider community is oblivious to.

In this case he might have been blatantly conspiring to legitimize his
position, or he might have been desperate to believe anything that could
let him reclaim his glory.

People think something big has happened. Gavin has always been
incompetent, with nothing inherently special to keep him in power. He
tried to push me out of Bitcoin development by blocking me in the early
days (which is why I went and first forked with you Freecoin, then
created libbitcoin), and later making secret character assassinations
about me behind closed doors.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=322328.msg3459482#msg3459482

https://imgur.com/m3Wbxxa

Unfortunately people are blind to fake smiles and false words. Have you
ever seen someone who likes power through insecurity, lack of vision and
wanting to play with the big guys? Then you have a young punk with
vision who doesn't respect the rules and wants to poison the well with
anarchist ideology. That's how Cody calls it - the banality of evil.

This was during the time when Bitcoin Corporate was at its peak, and
there was a prevailing slave sentiment throughout the community of
kowtowing to power.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=333824.msg3665209#msg3665209
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412846.msg4497012#msg4497012
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5979.msg4504984#msg4504984
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412846.msg4505356#msg4505356

Finally there is hope for Bitcoin. I am very happy that Peter Todd is
now in charge, and these guys have been exposed for what they are.

Don't forget Charlie Shrem was their darling boy for the longest time,
and their main negotiator with Duh System!! Yet when he was accused (not
charged or anything), they quickly swept him under the rug and denounced
him hard. It was me and Cody who showed him our solidarity.

They are not ethical people. They have a kind of public morality not
based on virtue but on purely consequence in their Machievallian
worldview. It's the anti-thesis of our purely virtue ethical action
against power regardless of if we win or not. Because as Cody says - we
enjoy the fight.

Jaromil:
> On Sun, 08 May 2016, Mike Gogulski wrote:
>
>> It's all on reddit. There are dozens of important threads, and a lot to say.
>
> as much as I dislike reddit, went through it already.
>
> I'm asking here to hear from unsystem, else I'd be asking on reddit, no? :^)
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