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blank | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nope the label shitcoin existed during this time and many of us called out Snowden as a shitcoiner directly.  But he did not care and only now gets it because his precious zcash is dead (and people that listened to him lost all their money). Vitalik even defended zcash when the community called out Snowden. They only praise him now because incentives align. But in the end he is just riding the free ride now retrospectively telling a fiction about how he said this all along. Grifter and opportunist.
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BitcoinBelle | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I remember things a bit differently.  Before 2014, I never once heard the term "shitcoin".  Charles Hoskinson and I, were asked to create and host a show to be called Let's Talk Altcoin, which we did a few shows of to feel it out.  Lightcoin and Ethereum were definitely not referred to as shitcoins.  Despite never calling myself a Maxi, I guess I can claim rights to it considering I was the only one around only into bitcoin.  So shitcoin came AFTER bankers joined post Silkroad.  Zooko came along with Zvash much later and after Vitalik bit the big one forking the chain after DAO hack, much to my and other's dismay.   As for Snowden, I can understand his desire for greater security.   OGs, early adopters and the generation called enthusiasts don't seem to have the same animus for alts that the later gens do.  Bitcoin has also become a very culty space where competition is bad, personalities reign over principles and the echo chambers clang loudly.   It's a bummer as it has polluted and poisoned people.  From my view, Bitcoin Community was what the feds and their collaborators practiced on to divide and conquer before the country then world at large.   No good deed goes unpunished.