I believe... CSW deserves all the smoke And CSW wants al…

It's the last point which creates almost an equivalency for all opportunity costs. If CSW tried to force a significantly bad protocol change, arguing he is a net negative has clearly more substance than had you made that argument prior to the attempt.

Not sure what you're saying here.

If you're saying BSV would be better off w/o CSW in a scenario where he did something bad to the procol, I agree.

But I think his faithfulness to the protocol is one area where he's clearly more successful than others.

"clearly more successful than others." - is the understatement of the year (richest man in the world) !!! Lol

CSW is first to admit social skills are his weakest trait. I dont know if it is the aspergers that makes him down right abrasive when hes in difficult social situation, but if u take time to look past that you have a GOOD MAN who cares about humanity.

Perhaps his lopesided personality traits are what made Bitcoin possible.

Perhaps without the poorly developed social side, there would be no genius. The guy vacuums up knowledge and when you mix it all together in his brain out pops Bitcoin.

People, think for yourselves. If you want to know the creator of Bitcoin there is a mountain of evidence including his own writings.

Dont listen to me and dont listen to the trolls. Do your own work.

Oh, I took that just as a hypothetical example. Perhaps a better one; if he for whatever imaginable reason sued the Twetch people tomorrow, that does not necessarily mean BSV utility would have declined by other means, had CSW been gone instead.

Sure, if CSW does something like that, I'd likely infer that BSV is better off w/o him.

None of these what if's are in conflict with any of my points.

There are always conceivable scenarios that could force us to say "I was incorrect."

I don't think it's a long shot to extrapolate the various court cases to many a sad what-ifs, but I guess we will see about that.

I think the 2 hypotheticals you raised are ones for which we see no precedent.

He's never sued anyone building on SV.

He's been more successful than others w/ protocol dev.

I acknowledge the possibilities, but I distinguish "fear" from "evidence."

"I own the Bitcoin database" coupled with the cases is enough for me to infer future troubles, but you are correct that it is not evidence per se.

We should definitely infer future troubles. He promises them.

But when you get down to specific types of fears, there are some that fall into his pattern and there are some that amount to nothing more than "This guy is so crazy, he might do ANYTHING!"

if anything, a large amount individuals in our culture arent comfortable with overtly litigious characters; and so such an approach has a 'chilling effect' stopping many innoncent non-criminal devs from EVER being comfortable holding interest in BSV.

BSV would be not much more than BCH without a visionary such as CSW, shit, it would still be bch, but it is out of touch not to recognize the extreme number of people who will never touch bsv with a ten foot pole for the rest of their lives based on lawl

Yeah, it would be out of touch to not acknowledge all that CSW has brought upon himself.

I've done a splendid job of explicitly acknowledging this several times in the past few days.

Just trying to get some to see the resistance behind the resistance.