> `@optimism` wrote back in winter that Roger Ver = Luke Dashjr for this cycle, I felt a LITTLE bad (https://stacker.news/items/1525907). That was too much, right?

correct, although fractal delusions of teleological inevitability of the eschaton are about as common around the liberally-minded cranium cohort as complaints about someone watching tiktok without headphones again, so who cares about "being right"?

remember [Boromir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boromir#The_Two_Towers) for how he died, but remember [Isildur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isildur#Fictional_history) for how he lived.

adlai

Luke himself seems to have bought into this narrative and has developed quite the savior complex.

When I wrote back in winter that Roger Ver = Luke Dashjr for this cycle, I felt a LITTLE bad (

In hindsight: nope it absolutely correct. Spot on. 

Aaaaand look at all these other people who agree with me!

Every few cycles Bitcoin is attacked by some megalomaniac character with a savior complex thinking 

 are uniquely situated to rescue Bitcoin from some existential threat. As we’re living through one of those attacks right now, looking back at the deranged ramblings of a loud loser from the previous fight is quite revealing.

In the eight years since the blocksize wars concluded, the debate over what happened has never been more relevant. In 

, Roger Ver, the infamous character known as “Bitcoin Jesus” — cue savior complex — laid out his account for what happened.

, the clearer it becomes that Luke Dashjr has turned into this cycle's Roger Ver: a religious fervor against imagined threats

, a twisted logic that includes words with nonstandard definitions, an obsession with a nefariously captured Bitcoin Core, and Peter Todd being the original villain (claims Ver) and a bad actor (says Dashjr).

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BIP-110 Post Mortem - lopp

Scoresby

> Luke himself seems to have bought into this narrative and has developed quite the savior complex.

![](https://m.stacker.news/152734)

When I wrote back in winter that Roger Ver = Luke Dashjr for this cycle, I felt a LITTLE bad (https://stacker.news/items/1525907). That was too much, right?

In hindsight: nope it absolutely correct. Spot on. *Aaaaand look at all these other people who agree with me!*

> Every few cycles Bitcoin is attacked by some megalomaniac character with a savior complex thinking *they* are uniquely situated to rescue Bitcoin from some existential threat. As we’re living through one of those attacks right now, looking back at the deranged ramblings of a loud loser from the previous fight is quite revealing.
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> In the eight years since the blocksize wars concluded, the debate over what happened has never been more relevant. In *Hijacking Bitcoin*, Roger Ver, the infamous character known as “Bitcoin Jesus” — cue savior complex — laid out his account for what happened.

> The more **I read *Hijacking Bitcoin*, the clearer it becomes that Luke Dashjr has turned into this cycle's Roger Ver: a religious fervor against imagined threats**, a twisted logic that includes words with nonstandard definitions, an obsession with a nefariously captured Bitcoin Core, and Peter Todd being the original villain (claims Ver) and a bad actor (says Dashjr).