- i dont think you realize the role Roger played during the Mt. Gox insolvency. Both him and Charlie Shrem (the Bitinstant guy) hurt a lot of the Gox users by defending an exchange that was insolvent for almost a year, he defended Karpeles with LIES up till the moment of the exchange collapse. Having never taking responsibility for that, Mr. Ver was already on two-strikes for some people -- years before the fork. His track record points to being a bad actor and his string of failed companies in the space point to it also.
-What's wrong with Lightning? It's an open protocol for off-chain payments anyone can use.
-MSTR is certainly more ethical than a pre-mined unregistered security. 72M ETH came out of thin air and was distributed opaquely by the Ethuriyeum Foundation established in Switzerland
-Monero is a shitcoin
-Not that Blockstream needs defending on where their money went, but Blockstream also made a hardware wallet, a lightning implementation, launched a satellite, released liquid functionary code in addition to contributions to open source projects like Electrs/esplora -- Money far better spent than the junk VCs spend on actual shitcoins