Oddbean

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsq9j9093ch3yln3px5cnl0e84tkpvj865q76x47map3npdku2vu2cpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5uxxmqq It was fud in the sense that it instilled (or could) a sense of fear, uncertainty, &/or doubt about (a shitcoin (& shitcoins at large)). I didn't say that it was untrue. https://primal.b-cdn.net/media-cache?s=o&a=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.primal.net%2FHZEN.png This is the comment that has Jack Mallers scratching his head. The argument being made against him is that what he said fits what the acronym FUD stands for. However, as Jack points out, "FUD" has colloquially come to be synonymous with "misinformation". If it didn't mean misinformation, it would be strange to complain about. "Hey you're causing people to fear and doubt this thing" is a complaint someone who wants to control people would make, but "hey this is misinformation" is a much different complaint. I'd be a fool not to mention once again GiGi's article about "The words we use in Bitcoin": https://dergigi.com/2022/06/27/the-words-we-use-in-bitcoin/ The words we use to describe things matter because the scammers will twist them and present them with wildly different meaning than what we intended. I want to encourage my peers to stop saying FUD. To decry people who use the word FUD to complain about articles and to instead use the word that we actually mean to say: Misinformation or misconstrued. Precision is the weapon of truth against scammers and FUD has come to be a shitty blunt force descriptor.