Oh god, turns out he wrote a medium post too He is completely deranged

HE THINKS EXXON-MOBIL IS BEHIND BITCOIN davetroy.medium.com/january-…

I'm seeing a lot of otherwise smart and rational people defend this as "the overall point is accurate, crypto is infected with anarcho-capitalist psychos." That's the problem. People are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and ignoring all the obvious red flags.

You don't want to give conspiracy loons any kind of legitimacy. It feels so good to watch them rip into our enemies, so we let them hollow out our virtues. Eventually the loons are all that's left.

Holy shit, TIM O'REILLY fell for it nitter.vloup.ch/timoreilly/statu… This is horrifying

And Kelsey Hightower. So many people I respect being tricked by this

Grady Booch, too

noooooooooo

A lot of it might just be the “don’t read, just retweet” attitude that many (including myself) are guilty of

If it helps at all, I liked the first tweet in the storm because I was expecting it to be a fun subversion, then immediately unliked it in horror after reading the next few tweets