If you genuinely believe in building a community around cry…

When moolah went down, he took the entire dogecoin community with him. One of the most vibrant crypto scenes, gone overnight

I think this space is tremendously exciting, and I’m actively building in it. I love what everyone has done so far.

But if you think you can achieve network effect without building a community that’s wack

We aren't building a community. The sooner you realize that the sooner you'll stop caring about what other people are doing and feel a need to criticize them without contributing an alternative.

If you believe anything that Craig or anyone has said about BTC being replete with scammers, you should care about policing your own.

I’m not accusing anybody of being a scammer.

Every time I have, they’ve said exactly what you’ve said.

Haha yes you do.

The same way you identify with people with the same language, religious beliefs, race, or ideology. Whether you realize it or not.

USD is just so big you forget it sometimes.

I should be more clear. I do not identify with a USD community.

Communities require collective action.

I do not identify with other people who use the USD anymore than I identify with other people who use BSV.

I interact with others who use the USD - I trade, I compete.

Do you pay taxes in USD?

I am an American taxpayer.

I use the USD to pay my taxes.

Isn’t that collective community action?

How so?

I think you're misunderstanding.

That’s fine! And that makes sense.

Let me put it this way: I have huge respect for Ryan. I’ve followed him since he worked for reddit. I followed Yours in the early days. I watched BTC grow to the point where micro transactions became impossible.

You aren't understanding my point.

I am not responsible for the actions of others that build applications on top of BSV.

I am often not inclined to take "criticisms" seriously from people that don't build alternatives.

Ryan put years of work in because despite bitcoin existing, there were absolutely no solutions that required micropayments.

I’m trying to build — but frankly I’m running into the same issues with Ryan’s product that he ran into back then.

Now it’s to the point where community members are literally reverse engineering paymail in order to build tools that can build truly immutable products.

I don’t want to have to throw the baby out with the bath water.

I’d rather piss people off with my words than spend 3 years building my own solution to a problem that has already been fixed. That’s what community means: not building your products in a way that tanks the entire dev infrastructure.