I have a suspicion that Greg's motivation to sabotage Bitcoin is to prove himself right. He's trying to make a point.
Can Bitcoin really overcome extreme social engineering, manipulation, and propaganda? If it can't then he was right all along.
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“When bitcoin first came out, I was on the cryptography mailing list. When it happened, I sort of laughed. Because I had already proven that decentralized consensus was impossible.”
- Greg Maxwell