Roger Ver, Tucker, and Bitcoin

[@Bitcoin_University]

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[@angela-mcardle]

Roger does not deserve 109 years in prison, regardless of his views on B cash.

[@aliensystem1528]

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[@Bitcoin_University]

I agree

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[@corporanvihas]

Investing in Bitcoin is the wisest asset to be in, not trying to shit on other stocks, it just won’t outperform Bitcoin over pretty much any long time horizon…reality over feelings!!

[@blumettimoniak]

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[@blumettimoniak]

Crypto has opened doors for global financial inclusion. It's time for a more equitable world!

[@SandyWilson71822]

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[@kodyk124]

I saw Tucker's interview with Roger and I immediately thought, "I want to see what Matthew has to say about this!"

[@Bitcoin_University]

I appreciate that

[@paullamb1100]

Me too. Ver is hands down the most famous person to criticize me on KZbin 😁

[@richg657]

As soon as I saw Tucker's interview, I knew something good would be coming from Matt!

[@Bitcoin_University]

@@paullamb1100 In which video?

[@paullamb1100]

@@Bitcoin_University It was in his BU Needs a History Lesson video.

[@Coughtry]

12:38 The government claims ownership of you if you cannot leave freely without burden of your government. If you need your government's permission to leave and you are its property.

[@travisthompson1679]

So many people short circuit when you explain it that simply. They used to tell the slaves they were property. Now they tell them they are free and they believe it all the more fervently.

[@MarcIverson]

You have become a serf.

[@travisthompson1679]

Such a shame my comment got censored. I think if you use the word "slave" in certain ways you get auto censored or something. Even more annoying that they don't even tell you when it happens.

[@MarcIverson]

@@travisthompson1679 Same thing happened to me. The AI and algorithms are far less good and sensible than they are being promoted as. I have seemingly completely random and inoffensive comments deleted pretty frequently. Sometimes ones that have been up for weeks or months without a problem. I go to check a response and the original comment is gone. It's really lazy and lame leaving everything up to either the machine or over-zealous censors. Let's see if this comment lasts for long.

[@meatheadtank]

I am a political prisoner

[@Profacy15]

How arrogant do you need to be to name a shipcoin after yourself?

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thanks for picking up on that-- I hadn't realized Verse/Vers until you pointed it out. His ego has always been too big for his own good

[@CryptoKiwi]

Yeah this is where I disagree with you Matt, really only this. It's clear as day that Bitcoin was meant to scale, and the community pre 2018 was massively open to the idea. It was a small group for profit of L2s that held BTC back

[@0_JMo_0]

BlockStream players had commit access to Bitcoin Core, and BlockStream agents censored r/bitcoin to make it so that only small block voices were heard. BlockStream (and Adam Back) were the beneficiaries of the small block win. The whole idea that “people chose” small blocks is enormously naive. Now, look at the junk they’re pushing for layer 2 like the Liquid Network, which is a sick joke.

[@LeadershipAlliance]

I met Roger when we both presented at a crypto conference years back. He was professional and polite in person, yet I knew that the “Bitcoin Cash” he was pushing was trash-and this reflected on his character, a perspective shared by others I trust. Be that as it may, I fully agree that Ver doesn’t deserve the draconian level of punishment being leveled at him.

[@cramsa]

Roger V says bitcoin “doesn’t work” but pushes centralized permissioned pump/dump crap like XRP😂

[@Bitcoin_University]

Yes, that's a huge red flag

[@Johntron08]

Tucker wasn’t listening closely enough when he interviewed Saylor.

[@Atlas_21]

He doesn't care, he is just out for views and sensationalism. People like him have no principles really.

[@TacoTuesday4]

Tucker is a clown. It should be easy enough to see if you have a brain and any ability for critical thought.

[@wilfredv1930]

​@@Atlas_21Exactly

[@BobE_Nagesh]

@@Atlas_21 Not true. Tucker is very genuine though, in this case, naive.

[@Atlas_21]

@@BobE_Nagesh What makes you presume he is genuine? It's a dangerous assumption to make. The softball Putin interview already showed his true colors. The word is he has been posting Bitcoin FUD videos on X as well. People defend him by saying he just doesn't understand Bitcoin so well yet. So what did he do during the Saylor interview? He wasn't paying attention? He just sat with his mouth open thinking about what's for dinner?

[@dr.k.math.777]

I’m so glad Matthew (Bitcoin University) does videos like this, because there are not enough hours in anyone’s day to watch everything. Matthew does a great job summarizing and explaining. Very valuable.

[@austinfrazier7325]

10000000%

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thank you

[@kirkD9349]

@@dr.k.math.777 Yes, I agree. I was so confused about bitcoin and bitcoin cash and Roger Ver until I listened and follow Matt. I don't have the time to follow it.

[@knoworiginality]

I was there. The community voted with their feet. Next.

[@Bitcoin_University]

Were their feet mysteriously hijacked?

[@DxV04]

@@Bitcoin_University 🤣🤣 probably! LOL

[@RobertGremillion]

Tucker has turned negative on Bitcoin and posted multiple FUD videos on it. Sigh.

[@Bitcoin_University]

Hopefully he'll come around

[@chilldude10293]

Dang any reason why? He even talked with Saylor not that long ago and seemed like he was a fan

[@NarwhalChaser]

He's still controlled opposition. That's the simple answer

[@MrRem7600]

@@NarwhalChaser considering some of the interviews he's done and is doing on his podcast, I don't believe that for a second. Whatever his reasons are, it's not this.

[@NarwhalChaser]

@@MrRem7600 He’s a great interviewer so it’s not as apparent with him as it is with other media/social media personalities. There are certain topics he won’t touch and for some reason he’s always rounding things out to intelligence agencies, which is rather strange when considering his family members. He’ll flip flop on something like Bitcoin, for example, because he typically doesn’t question powers that are outside of govt.

[@liberman7667]

Awww...you cut out the best part of Roger's rage quit! "B-cash, B-cash, B-cash!!! (Gives the finger.)" I remember watching this at the time. His meltdown and childish behavior at not getting his way was both hilarious and pathetic at the same time.

[@rossg9363]

It's always good looking at the very bottom comments of channels chat pages to see what has been down voted by channels owner to see what really freaks them out, congratulations Peter you hit the nail on the head everyone is talking about how Bitcoin got Hijacked not just Rodger Ver

[@BitCoin-jl4ns]

Matthew, I’m one of your biggest fans, but your biases definitely distort your evaluation of some topics. In your world there is only bitcoin and shitcoins. I’d posit that there is bitcoin, shitcoins, and altcoins. There are some technical advances going on in the altcoin space which are worthy of consideration and discussion. Ex. Dynamic blocksize, privacy enhancements to mention a few. Have you even read Roger’s book? To be fair you should and then refute the facts he states rather than making up your own, such as that in your statement that “large blocks will reduce decentralization”. That is analogous to the telco’s saying the internet is inadequate for voice calls. Everything evolves and what was impossible become possible and commonplace. What is the increase is TB/dollar since bitcoin’s inception? Same for bandwidth. I’d like to hear your take on how important you think having a global p2p money is and what is the top contender to fill that void.

[@jet1748]

Stay in your lane shitcoiner. If you honestly believe Roger made valid points and not years of home spun propaganda, you deserve everything you lose 💩coining.

[@jet1748]

Imagine thinking large blocks don’t compromise decentralization and security.🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@arbo3495]

I'm a bitcoin maxi and Roger is an absolute legend, a true freedom lover.

[@RocktonRoad]

So glad you covered this!! I felt the same way about that interview the way i felt about Joe Rogan when he interviewed Billy Carson. The tuckers and rogans are legends, but they’re not always on top of their game. They sometimes can be sold a lie and they lack the ability and knowledge of the truth to be able to push back. They’ll wake up eventually God willing.

[@spiritusinfinitus]

And remember folks: Don't Trust VERify.

[@travisthompson1679]

I do think criticizing interviews for not being super knowledgeable on every topic they interview about is fallacious. He is doing the interviews as part of his own learning process.

[@w1ldthin9]

100+ years of prison for exit tax evasion is horrific and an abuse of power. i dont think that punishment fits the crime.

[@aliensystem1528]

Yes because it's obviously not the real reason they want to lock him up

[@kirkD9349]

Thanks for the clear and concise explanation of what's going on. Another example of a good guy is Jeffrey Tucker, a conservative columnist from the Brownstone Institute. He is correct on most things, but Roger Ver hoodwinked him into thinking bitcoin was "hijacked," so Jeffrey is also confused and likes bitcoin cash. Hopefully, those with open minds will come around.

[@Bitcoin_University]

Someone should point out to Jeffrey Tucker the BCH/BTC chart and remind him that the free market has spoken

[@DxV04]

Oh really, that is unfortunate, I've followed Jeffrey Tucker for a very long time but didn't catch that. Thanks.

[@DxV04]

@@Bitcoin_University Very good point!!

[@Notone6789]

@bitcoin university Matt - What are some examples of Tucker Carlson’s interviews which exemplify his courage and journalistic independence?

[@rossg9363]

Just like pretending to be a university when your not, who's the Liar did you say? Yeah didn't think so! 💚

[@Zebrahhh]

Yeah, this guy says Monero and Zano are crap… lol if only he could get bitcoin out of his butt

[@blackzombie149]

Thank you for giving further details on the background of this story. Roger Ver sounded very convincing.

[@Atlas_21]

Scam artists often do, for a while, until people start waking up.

[@Steve992.1]

Jealous and angry that Roger Ver has a platform to speak and you still doing corny slideshow videos lol. By the way, you call BCH a failure even though its a top #20 crypto with a $10b MC. Maybe it just you want to surpress BCH and Roger so it stays low compared to BCH, things change Mr Katter. BCH works as peer to peer cash, BTC doesn't.

[@AndrewKangas]

Thank you for this video. I had multiple friends message me the Tucker interview because they all know me as the "BTC" guy. It was nice to have this video to send them back. The problem is education on BTC is so demanding people don't take the time and they just go about their days, then something like this percolates to the top of the culture consumption cycle and it gives BTC undue negative press. So annoying. I've been telling these friends about BTC when it was below $20k. And as soon as negative press comes around, they message me about it. I just want to say, "Whatever. Have fun staying poor on the Fed's dime."

[@AndrewKangas]

Another one I got this last week was Google's Quantum computer "breakthrough," which seems to happen every 2 years. All the sudden, my friends are like, "Ha! BTC is not secure." I'm just to the point of not even responding... Like, they have an issue or jealousy with BTC... because if there really was a super computer that could hack BTC, don't you realize there are way bigger honeypots to hack first?! Like VISA, like the Fed's computer, on and on. Whatever. Gotta get new friends.

[@austinfrazier7325]

1000%. Matt has a great way of summarizing in chunks that can be understood by btc newbs. He’s the perfect person to make rebuttal videos like this.

[@markdelej]

Was bitcoin talk forum and the reddit forum censored though?

[@Bitcoin_University]

Yes, my understanding is that both sides did everything they could to silence their opponents-- like any other political struggle

[@nano.joe.4851]

they're still censoring. Reddit is the worst!

[@markdelej]

@ not good if the mods of both the reddit and the forum were the same people or had financial gain to be made by keeping blocks small. I’m glad small blocks won but want open discussion

[@Bitcoin_University]

@@markdelej Roger Ver sided with large corporations, was already famous with a large following on Twitter, he was super rich, he owned the best URL Bitcoin.com and Twitter @Bitcoin, and now he has access to Tucker's show. He is hardly a silenced victim. He was one of the main aggressors and movers and shakers

[@HomelessShoe]

It went as far as DDOS attacks, but it's not like the side of Roger was innocent either. The small blockers (aka, the real bitcoin) were just better armed with words and equipment, thus Roger lost his petty civil war game.

[@BasicBeachCommunity1]

23.8% for the exit tax. Ouch. Is that 200 million he "forgot" to pay?

[@travisthompson1679]

I think the story is a little more complicated than he "forgot". I've only heard a little, but it sounds like he did his best at the time and hired lawyers to do this properly. Bitcoin was too new and the IRS rules were not clear. It's only now years later that they have changed the rules and want to apply them retroactively.

[@lazylonewolf]

​@@travisthompson1679 if that's true, him being jailed is injustice and retroactively applied rules are shit to be fair to Roger

[@michaelgood9218]

@@travisthompson1679 Yes, pretty much. If he had sold his entire stash in such an illiquid nascent market, he would not have gotten the 'market price'. Boils down to the injustice of unrealized capital gains taxation.

[@lupamoo]

Thanks for this, I was going to watch the interview now I don't have to. I new it was going to be crap. 😅

[@SuperheroArmorychannel]

When i received my air dropped Bitcoin cash i sold it immediately. I knew Roger Ver was a snake from day 1. I always disliked that guy, but yes taxation =theft.

[@mattmcfly2165]

Yeah, but he lied about his digital assets. .

[@venusrise]

@@SuperheroArmorychannel took me a while to sell. I felt the fear of bcash getting significant price in the beginning. Wish I sold at 20% of BTC that’s for sure

[@greydog1104]

Anyone whom immediately dumped their bcash for btc, got free btc funded by Roger, so we can thank him for that 😊

[@marcosbn3655]

🐑

[@CryptoSimp-v9q]

Why is running a full node necessary? Generally curious, I’ve listened to both sides. Even if most people did download full nodes most have no clue how to verify transactions.

[@PuleosGameClips]

It isn't lol. Look into Craig wright and study. The guy in this video knows nothing. The Bitcoin rabbit hole is the biggest ever. a new form of true money destroys the powers that be, hence the fake news and Fud. He calls btc the real Bitcoin LMAO.

[@lightningplus_]

SOOO grateful you devoted a full episode to the Ver interview, Matt. Funny thing is, Tucker has done interviews with 3 of the most profound maxis on earth (some time ago). . .Michael Saylor, Max Keiser & Nayib Bukele. . .with seemingly positive results (Tucker seemed thoroughly orange pilled). So it just goes to show that the Ver saga is complex enough that it requires diligent scrutiny. .. as you executed so eloquently. Tucker clearly owes a rebuttal/clarification interview to everyone, to set the record straight. Saylor has shown he's not immune to some (maybe small) degree of political appeasement, so maybe he's not the right choice. But Max might be the perfect candidate. . .he's so toxic that he likely won't give a ship about telling everyone the truth as you did. Thoughts?

[@austinfrazier7325]

Agree but Matt should do the interview!!!

[@jsmdify]

This was a great video and a wonderful summary of the Tucker Carlson interview and the problems with it. It’s a shame that Tucker did prepare himself more thoroughly for this interview to confront the lies pulled by this shit coiner. I agree with you, however he does not belong in jail for failure to pay an unconstitutional exit tax!

[@liberman7667]

I doubt that Tucker knows much about the history of the block size war from a decade ago. He wasn't equipped to hold Roger's feet to the fire on his BS.

[@shayne5829]

for clearing the air on Roger Ver... this video is 💯

[@youngears8018]

It's hard for me to take such a dim view of Roger Ver since he was the man back in 2014 when I was first introduced to Bitcoin. Yeah yeah yeah, he rolled the dice and lost huge but he was driven by conviction. He was the man before that.

[@liberman7667]

His lying about the solvency of Mt. Gox destroyed any credibility that he may have had.

[@JeremyWade-z2n]

The more people hate Roger the more i like him. Putting an unflattering thumbnail of him tells me everything about this channel.

[@carlabrown608]

Thank you Matt, this was a great post to set the record straight. I watched the Tucker interview with only a vague recognition of the name but no other context. Given where we are today with BTC I was left wondering if Tucker realized he was "used" on this one.

[@charlesmiller6281]

Yep, that was my reaction, Tucker simply doesn't know the subject well and got used as a result. As always with Bitcoin knowledge is everything.

[@fondofsauce]

Thanks Matthew. As usual, outstanding and concise substance on your channel. But who knew the service was also 3 micheline stars ⭐⭐⭐ I appreciate you catching me up to speed with your perspective on the Roger Ver atory from Tucker. I also like Tucker, but the sudden appearance of a new BTC personality made my fiat sensors tingle. Glad to get your Ver-sion. Please keep up the great work.

[@SQUALLHIKER]

That had to be the most cool, calm and eloquent insult towards a person I’ve ever heard! 😂🤣

[@krupin12]

Why so much aggresion towards XMR? Unlike Bitcoin, Monero became real currency, that is in usage. Of course, it has dark side, nevertheless it's usable and it's in real usage. It isn't store of value coin, yet keeps value pretty stable, between 140-160 last year with increase to about 210 USD last days. I don't think it will go down anytime soon, as there's need for such coin, with strong privacy. Consider, that despite deplatforming and banishment from most of CEXs, it still keeps value. I see this like that: serious, official bussines and store of value - BTC, small things - XMR and/or Lightning.

[@aliensystem1528]

XMR is way better than BTC

[@krupin12]

@@aliensystem1528 It's not. It's different, has different purpose. It's like reliable working white van truck versus rare, collectible supercar. You haul stuff with plain GMC, but your EB 110 will appreciate with time.

[@edsanville]

Ironically, BCH doesn't even need big blocks, because nobody uses it anyway.

[@Bitcoin_University]

Yes, definitely the ultimate irony

[@Kinnnnnnnnn1]

Well said...that is true.

[@davidhein4300]

Tucker interviewing Matthew Kratter is a must!!!

[@civicparadox4644]

I was around in 2017. I listened to both sides of the debate (including to Roger himself), and like you said, shortly after the fork I promptly dumped my airdropped BCash for extra Bitcoin. There was no censorship.

[@HolmesHobbies]

How is it an airdrop and not a double spend of the origional chain at the fork? Coin supply doubled at that point.

[@lazylonewolf]

​@@HolmesHobbies On the other side of his trade are Bitcoiners selling their BTC for BCash. An unwise trade for them 😅

[@CRAIGBYRNE-kl8hi]

God Morning

[@kqh123]

Ok, but *why* would he do any of this. You did not make a convincing case why. He was already wealthy before he forked BTC. Wealth is not the reason, its ideology, and there's nothing wrong with that. BCH falling vs BTC doesn't disprove any of Rogers points. You also dodnt address his claim that the BTC message boards were tampered with.

[@derek.seaborn]

Can’t wait to hear his response video again like last time 😂 Hi Roger 👋

[@minionkevin6623]

Oh man! Im glad you did this video! 🤘I was wondering what you thought of that guy. I watched the interview and he seemed a little off, my gut feeling was negative with that guy. Thanks!!!🤘

[@hugomiller1025]

He is clearly a self-aggrandising fantasist with a very fragile ego.

[@Bitcoin_University]

Yes

[@JPs-q1o]

​@@Bitcoin_University ...and a criminal, literally. In his pre-crypto days Roger spent time in jail for mailing explosives (I didn't take the time to fully study the context in the court docs). Is this a guy whose judgement we should trust? Much like Richard Schueler (alias Richard Heart) of recent HEX fame was sued as the notorious "Spam King" of the late 90s and early 2000s. What is it with these sh!tcoiners all seemingly having a tendency towards criminal behaviour?

[@upup209]

190 jail for not paying unrealised capital gains tax. What a dystopian hellscape we live in. We are all Roger Ver

[@TheSelfStorageGuy]

Aside from all the shady stuff with BCH and BSV, their problem is that they are trying to make a philosophical argument which is an uphill battle against human incentive. They gave people a choice between being "right" and being rich. The people chose to be rich. None of the rest of it matters.

[@chingron]

I’m not following your argument? How were big blocks “right” and how do small blocks make people rich?

[@TheSelfStorageGuy]

@chingron big blocks were not right, they only believed it to be so - which is why I put it in quotes. The point is that their philosophy is irrelevant. The market decided what the real bitcoin is, and they made the choice with their wallet.

[@Bitcoin_University]

No, the people actually chose decentralization. Roger was on the side of big crypto corporations, not the pleb

[@HomelessShoe]

@@Bitcoin_University Just a corporate rat, trying to gas-light things. Trying to lure people in this centralisation narrative...

[@Alex-i1q5s]

He is 100% right about privacy though, bitcoin has ZERO privacy. At the minute.

[@xDooksx]

Man, your thumbnails crack me up.

[@sumtingwong4997]

Thanks for what you do

[@TheShaolin015]

There shouldn’t be an exit tax in America and 109 years is ridiculous. I don’t feel bad for the scammer but the precedence is terrible here

[@danmanr]

I've listened to this entire video, the entire Tucker interview and I'm on chapter 7 of Hijacking Bitcoin. Ok not exactly sure what to think. Last week a 9 UTXO consolidation cost me $14 and took 6 hrs. Would larger blocks fix this? The first line in the Bitcoin White Paper: Bitcoin a Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System. Yet all we hear now, even from Jerome Powell, is that it's a store of value. I believe in Bitcoin, but I see both sides of this argument.

[@MrRem7600]

Would larger blocks fix this? They might - but then it would also lead to the destruction of what makes Bitcoin so unique. It takes it down the path of what B cash and Ethereum have done. Centralized garbage that's no different to the current world financial system of fiat and central banking. You can't have everything, and what Bitcoin gives up in transaction ability it takes back in true decentralization. $14 seems pretty reasonable to me when you consider the power of Bitcoin's network, also how much data was involved in the consolidation of 9 UTXO's? Given the average fees at the moment hang around 6 sats/vb and you waited 6 hours to complete it, sounds like you were low priority or picked a higher fee time to do it. Remember, no one has a right to blockspace - thats determined by the free market.

[@alexp.6406]

Consider this, all of us pay 3% on every transaction through our Visa card purchase. 3% fee on the entire volume of all the purchases within the US every single day…. not a bad gig for Visa, is it?

[@jake9674]

Also just finished reading Hijacking Bitcoin and found it well written and compelling. There is only one side of the story told in this video.

[@MrRem7600]

@@jake9674 yeah, the correct one

[@Holistic_Trader]

im reading it on my flight tomorrow very interested

[@HomelessShoe]

Roger Ver is definitely someone you shouldn't overlook. He's (often) got a way with words that can really sway people. His writings have managed to win over not just everyday folks, but also those who usually think critically and ended up caught in his web. His mental tricks can be pretty captivating. He can be quite a pain in the butt, an annoying mosquito and almost infected one of my own bitcoin-peers if I didn't intervene.

[@lenin405]

@Matthew, just a sidenote, what you accused Trucker of doing in interview with Roger, he did also in interview with Putin and others. People he likes always receive only softball questions, and he never pushes back when they spew nonsensical ideas. Only in this case you are knowledgeable about the subject so you see right through it. That's why viewers who are educated in different subjects, that Tucker interviews people about, complain about his style and bias.

[@Atlas_21]

Exactly 100%, it's maddening. It's not possible for people to be experts at everything. There is only so much time in a day you can spend learning about different topics. So sometimes people trust 'authorities' like Tucker in matters they are not very familiar with. For people in the know, the Putin interview was filled with lies and just blatant Kremlin propaganda that went completey unchallenged. And lots of people just went with it. Like now lots of people will be repeating this nonsense Ver has spewed.

[@lazylonewolf]

I feel like anyone would make an exception of softballing Putin for obvious reasons 😅

[@travisthompson1679]

@@lazylonewolf All interviews aren't the same either. Just letting someone talk and give their side of the story is perfectly fine. It's just annoying to people who are already familiar with a topic, but they are never the majority. It's dumb to expect Tucker to do months of research on every topic or person he interviews. His interviews are part of the research. Not everyone learns the same way.

[@flopasen]

you understand you're biased right? Roger had and did more for bitcoin before you even considered it as an option

[@sheldonirving9529]

Yes he is biased. hes part of the small blocker special interest group. hes opinion of any other coin is biased too. (anything will take from the value of bitcoin)

[@finestcitycycling621]

Will be sending lots of people this video. No-coiners and on-the-fence people about Bitcoin are hearing about this stuff for the first time and believing it.

[@Dragan224M]

Exit tax to me sounds a lot like slavery, especially on non-US domiciled assets. Hopefully he fights this to the supreme court level and it gets overturned. I wish him the best.

[@jmbrown3502]

Very well done Matt! Tucker should listen to you. 👍

[@christopherwelsh2025]

Yeah I watched the video with no previous knowledge and thought it was arrogant about him saying what bitcoins “true use case is”. The true use case is whatever bitcoin becomes. It also was very cringe when he was also repeating monero and xanu or whatever the other one was called.

[@richardcoker1238]

Hi Matthew, you ever hear of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect? I thought of it when you praised Tucker’s interview of Putin, of whom I’m very familiar, but dissed his interview with Ver. 😉

[@RichNel1]

Matt it’s time for a Tucker interview

[@austinfrazier7325]

1000000%

[@Bit-while_going]

Seems like a natural fud artist whether Bitcoin was ever to be the target or not.

[@lazylonewolf]

I wonder if some people lucked out on being "late" to Bitcoin like me if they managed to avoid people like Roger after he started pushing BCH and defending Mt Gox?

[@AlephwithBeth]

All people have to do is read Roger's book for themselves and decide whether this video is biased and misinformed.

[@LarryRuane]

Excellent, I was hoping you'd make this video! Another reason the hijacked meme doesn't work is that, in a canonical hijacking, the passengers are trapped on the plane and forced to go where the hijackers decide. Whereas with Bitcoin, the passengers (users) can step off the plane anytime since bitcoin's code is open-source. They can build their own plane, they could call it BCH for example.

[@Bitcoin_University]

Well said

[@deplorable1-2]

You are missing something in your take on the interview. It is not totally about Ver. The interview helps to expose government overreach and an evil faction within the State that seeks to end individual freedom.

[@lazylonewolf]

He's right about that, but I have a feeling he included that to lure people in and manipulate people's emotions to pump BCH.

[@gtcstorm40]

Guy is unhinged and I agree putting people in prison for tax evasion is crazy.

[@SavannaBanana205]

Thank you for this! This definitely makes me rethink a lot of the stuff i believe from watching Tucker. I do like him a lot, but now I'm not sure if he's doing his due diligence.

[@MikeStillUK]

There is no place for ego in bitcoin

[@funland108]

I dumped BCH for BTC when the fork happened. Have now done very nicely out of it so I suppose I should thank Roger… even though he is suffering from a terrible case of BDS.

[@omarmylastname3124]

I dont think there is an issue with considering bigger blocks as a solution to the TPS problem (I think Roger Ver is a problem unto himself). Yes there are other solutions like the lightning network but storage is the cheapest component of an IT system so upgrading your storage is easier than upgrading other components. And if I recall correctly the proposal was a doubling of the block size...its still at only 0.50 TB. I bought an 8 TB external HDD for $200 ages ago. So this would have doubled the speed at a minor expense. Lets assume we doubled it from the start. We would have a blockchain that is 1 TB in size. That is 15 years of transactions x 2. Lets assume we quadrupled the size. In 15 years of bitcoins existence, we would today, have a 2 TB blockchain with 4x the transactions hence 4x the speed. I may be missing something and please correct me, but a larger block would make bitcoin faster to use, more likely to get adopted by retailers and become a useable means of exchange and would not inherently destabilize the network.

[@sheldonirving9529]

long time ago, people mined to their own node. it was apart of core. so technically when you can a node you made money. But mining became centralized. pools started to exist. there was no money in having a node. People were too cheap to pay for storage. that was part of the problem.

[@BitMilkshake]

I unsubscribed from Tuckers YT because of the video

[@HolmesHobbies]

So he said that bitcoin was unreliable.... who has had a tx fail?

[@juliomontepeque8302]

Nice clarifiying video.

[@juliomontepeque8302]

Wish Tucker gets to see this.

[@TedAlexandro]

As soon as you start talking about Roger Ver, I pull up a chair and pop some popcorn.

[@hikelokarelsa]

why did you choose this photo of roger ver? come on matthew, you can be better than this.

[@successbuilder27]

Free Roger Ver!

[@HubertoKusters]

I am so glad that you posted this video. I saw the whole interview of Tucker and it rattled me indeed a bit. Now I know better. Thanks!

[@pepelapiu2004]

Why is nobody talking about the latest major development between the IMF and El Salvador?

[@marcosbn3655]

What if you’re wrong ?

[@Bitcoin_University]

BCH/BTC chart shows you that I am right

[@sealingtruth]

@@Bitcoin_University So your ultimate validation is the Tether propped BTC chart? Chart just shows you only the past, we'll find out how right you are when the music stops.

[@Bitcoin_University]

@@sealingtruth How exactly does Tether pump BTC-- feel free to explain the exact mechanics

[@Ball_Chat_FC]

@@Bitcoin_Universitywell until we see full proof of reserves for the $1 billion USDT in circulation it is best to assume it’s all inflated nothingness

[@netbloo]

Thank you Matt for doing this video. You are so important and valuable to the community

[@cramsa]

Roger V believed in his own shipcoin BCH sooooo much that he also PROMOTED RIPPLE XRP shipcoin😂. I am not kidding, he has a ton of videos promoting questionable “crypto projects,” this guy is worse than a used car salesman 😂😂😂😂

[@Atlas_21]

These people are opportunists, they have no morals or principles.

[@lazylonewolf]

I've been reading The Bitcoin Standard and I've reached the part where it mentions Gavin and the blocksize wars.

[@venusrise]

Bcash in a free-market, lost the competition. Ver himself said the market should decide, and it did.

[@Albatross125]

Honestly this is a breath of fresh air. I wasn't sure who Roger was but was worried about some of what he said. I'm glad to know he's just a shill with nothing of real importance to say. Thanks Matthew. Been following you for years.

[@liberman7667]

I've been following the Bitcoin space for nearly 10 years. OG Bitcoiners are well acquainted with the antics of Roger Ver who has proven himself to be an arrogant untrustworthy person. If he is sitting in jail, it is probably because he deserves to be there. Roger Ver is like a bad penny who keeps showing up again seeking attention every few years.

[@Bitcoin_University]

@@liberman7667 So true

[@HomelessShoe]

I feel you. He can be quite manipulative and I can see why some people fell for it. So I can´t stress enough to be careful with him. He is lurking at his prey in the shadows.

[@Bomt407]

Not to be rude but I am shocked that you’ve been following btc content for years and haven’t been thoroughly acquainted with the existence and role of roger ver.

[@liberman7667]

@@Bomt407 Well, if they came in after Roger Ver rage quit Bitcoin, I'm not surprised newer Bitcoiners are not very familiar with him. He hasn't been relevant since at least 2017.

[@bruno_giordano]

you are naive

[@BitcoinDave]

Roger doesn't deserve to be in prison for 109 years for non violent crimes but hes untrustworthy and no one should trust what he says or anything hes selling.

[@Dianne-k3p]

I'm retired at 27, This video here reminds me of my transformation from a nobody to having over 65,000 biweekly profit, a honest partner and a good daughter full of love ❤️

[@BahamasAli-e2r]

I'm highly inspired. Please spill some sugar about the bi-weekly stuff you mentioned

[@Dianne-k3p]

All thanks to my Financial Advisor *Linda Bradford Raschke*

[@OliviaAmstrong]

God bless Ms *Linda Bradford* ❤️ I started my trade with $5000, and in the space of one month I got credited with $22,000. It remains my biggest win for the year 2024

[@OliviaAmstrong]

people are ignorant of profitablity in bitcoin investment and that has been the major issues limiting their investment.

[@BahamasAli-e2r]

Oh please,how can someone get to speak with Mrs Linda Bradford??

[@searchingfortruth4783]

As per the reasons given in your discussion of 'The Big Block Movement' surely these points can be revisited as technology develops, if you are being intellectually honest? 1) More difficult to download and verify - Internet upload/download speeds continue to increase, making the download issue less prominent in every passing year? 2) Hurts decentralisation - Computer technology is also still in a growth curve improving rapidly. Again, this means more people could download and run the version of BTC the big blockers originally proposed with a smaller and smaller impact on decentralisation? 3) More expensive to run a node - Data storage technology is following a similar development curve to computer technology. The price of both memory, and speed of internal chips, has been on a substantial fall for decades. 4) Higher TPS would clearly help as more people come to the blockchain. I appreciate no one wants to ensure another 'block size war' , and that it appears there were definitely nefarious intentions in the Big Block movement, but as a stand alone aspect, higher TPS would be a good thing.

[@Fudmottin]

I'm pretty sure only a minority of bitcoiners run full nodes. That is a shame. As things stand now, you do need a decent network connection. The equipment to run a node may not be expensive, but it isn't free. It takes a while to download the entire blockchain over normal consumer broadband.

[@travisthompson1679]

I don't think Matt's or anyone's position is that Bitcoin will never ever increase block size or change, just that it wasn't the right call in 2017 or now. The whole argument is around things being cheap so people can run nodes, so obviously if tech hits a point where everyone could run a node with twice or tens time the block size then there would be no reason not to upgrade the protocol.

[@Fudmottin]

@@travisthompson1679 My node currently only has 17 connections. It is on a residential broadband connection. I have noticed that I occasionally experience high latency. That is, my node has taken several seconds to, rarely, 30 seconds to fulfill a request. I'm running lottery miner that uses my node. With my luck, that high latency will kick in at the time the miracle occurs where I solve a block. Commercial miners and exchanges are on high speed internet running more powerful servers to reduce latency.

[@DiarioCarnivoro]

Wether you like it or not, Bitcoin Cash is so much better than Bitcoin nowadays, and Monero is better than both.

[@Bitcoin_University]

lol imagine actually believing this

[@DiarioCarnivoro]

@Bitcoin_University Imagine not wanting to see reality, because the dogma says crypto is only about Bitcoin and everything else is automatically garbage.

[@sspetz229]

Tucker had as much depth and knowledge talking to Putin as talking to bitcoin Jesus. People who know a lot about Russia and Putin picked up on complete lack of context right away. I am glad you’re bringing objective coverage of bitcoin Jesus and Tucker interview.

[@Pex-iq4ic]

Excellent Mathew. Thank you for covering this

[@isambo400]

Great video as always!

[@Slishi-t8u]

It seems he is desperate

[@TheBitcoinBlock]

Thank you Sifu.

[@Cbeaucoup]

Prime example of why we don’t Shipcoin