Well I just wondered since he has such a huge influence in the bitcoin world. If he were to flip and trash talk bitcoin like Hearn did, it would cause the price to plunge.

Most of all I just wondered out of curiosity.

and why should Laudas opinion matter.
he doesnt know C++. and has never read a line of bitcoin code.

he loves core, he really loves blockstream and he thinks segwit is the perfect dream unicorn he had always wished for as a kid... just a shame that its not actually working as a bitcoin feature right now so all of them 'segwit is perfect' mantras are useless, because so far its not even part of bitcoin, and still in testing on its own altcoin.

even when it is implemented as part of bitcoin, it wont become active for many many more months. so dont expect any logical capacity increases any time soon.. only expect delays, excuses and fairy tale dreams of perfection.

I wouldn't mind him quitting either. Such people stop being beneficial to the ecosystem at one point (e.g. Hearn).

There are two possible cases:
1) We are at maximum capacity and adoption has completely stopped.
2) We are not at maximum capacity and adoption has not stopped.
I'm pretty sure that we are still in the second one (e.g. my mempool has not been constantly rising).

That shouldn't surprise people considering that he was spam-advertising his forum here during AMA.

Does he really has any influence? I don't think so!
He has a bigger stash of coins, was one of the early adopters, funded a few companies.But that's it.His website doesn't seem to work as expected.
Furthermore Roger barely has any deeper understanding about the technolgy itself.His attempt together with the classic guys to push for a hostile takeover via hardfork was a big failure. Wouldn't surprise me if they brainwashed him, because deep in the heart Roger seems to be a good guy.

The way I see it, with the recent price rises since last fall and coinbase's user base continually growing, people aren't too worried. Coinbase seems to gain another 100K members every month lately, so adoption is still very much happening.

Ver's trolling is advertising for the shitty rump forum and casino he hosts on the exorbitantly overpriced bitcoin dot com domain.

He must be losing a ton of money paying for care and maintenance on that ghost town.

Thus the frequent shittweeting of clickbait, hoping someone besides Brian Armstrong will notice his hapless flailing.

Well, I consider it equally possible that all of his "freedom" spiel is simply his cover as an agent of the bankster establishment, fairly deep cover of course. If anyone thinks that's far fetched, bear in mind the lengths that espionage agents will undergo to establish convincing credentials for a given operation. Take a look into the history of espionage if you're unaware.

But of course, it's impossible to tell whether Roger Ver is a useful idiot or an anti-Bitcoin agent, definitive evidence either way doesn't exist (and in the case of the "useful idiot" scenario, not necessarily mutually exclusive ). One thing about Ver that is positively true though: the Bitcoin Judas moniker

All that I see there is: "This user is currently ignored.".

Don't you know that my Cat is the supreme Jedi savior? Well, that's what her official website says and thus you should worship her. I don't see anything wrong with that. [1]

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Hopefully you see what I'm getting at with [1]. Anyhow, read the posts from Carlton regarding Ver.

Because he has a lot to loose if Bitcoin is not scalled to be useable for bigger adoption as he has invested a lot in various Bitcoin related enterprises, plus there wont be segregated witness activated until Core adds 2 MB hard fork code - bitmain made it very clear on this matter. So the sonner Core adds both features, the better for everyone. The only unfortunate thing is Core still silent on the matter, thats why those who can lose the most loudly complains.