I guess there's no hope for his redemption. I had thought otherwise. He went too deep.
As an aside, if you never saw him on The Rubin Report (must have been 2017), it's worth a watch. There's one moment when Dave asks a surprisingly insightful question regarding "the real bitcoin" and it throws Roger completely off his game. Dave is pretty smart so that's not what surprised me, but Dave's logical approach to simply trying to get his head around Bitcoin led him to an unintentional gotcha question. It was amazing while at the same time sad to see.
Bitcoin Jesus is no more. Maybe "Bitcoin Anakin" would suit him better. The Fork Wars were certainly interesting times.
Found it: https://youtu.be/N6NscwzbMvI?si=sq6yLC2BVgWB3Ovi&t=1370
It's also noteworthy with the benefit of the passage of time Ver can now see that his predictions about scale, and his FUD about
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