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Sunday, 4th February 2024

#107:

Eric Wall Orb

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Wen Halvening Hype?

USD $236.32 (flat). 1 BTC = 181.4 BCH (down slightly).

1 ETH = 9.7 BCH (flat).

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Eric Wall

• Former laser eye small blocker, disavowed through the 2021-2022 period
• Co-founder of Taproot Wizards with his mate Udi Wertheimer
• Has a Twitter following of ~140k & very influential in the broader crypto conversation
• Has an intellectual but combative, debates / dunk driven personality
• Quoted in the BCH Podcast 2023 intro, “Where we the bad guys?”

https://twitter.com/ercwl

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Eric’s Tungsten Cubes

• When he feels a need to call out a stupid take, Eric will offer to bet a tungsten cube
• He has said he only does this when he’s already sure he’ll win &
• His entire collection is wagered against 1 from the new victim, hence his flawless record is critical
• Around 5 so far? Adam Back, Brad Mills, some others
• He can’t (or at least hasn’t) tried to win a tungsten cube bet against me, nor am I that interested in one myself

https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1746902748912656848

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Eric’s Orb

• An Ethereum smart contract
• Owner can ask Eric 1 question / week
• Implements Harberger taxes, always purchaseable
• Owner can make other answers public
• Attempting to pioneer more “utility NFTs”
• Fits his Wizards theme
• A few of his mates also have one, Nic Carter & one or two others. Also question based, although that’s not required.

https://eric.orb.land/

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Jeremy’s Twitter Thread

• Started 19 June 2023
• Documenting Wizards’ cognitive dissonance to an increasingly large audience until they were forced to acknowledge me & discuss
• (Currently) 24 posts
• 13.3k views
• Only prompted by refusal of either Wizard to engage with me after multiple more gentle attempts
• Kinda served its purpose now

https://twitter.com/TheBCHPodcast/status/1670839312827531279

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Lead In

• After being questioned by Kallisti as to why
• Discussion was had about crypto scaling with Eric arguing for ZKPs & Celestia while dismissing BCH & being a bit upset about my call out Thread
• I asked why ZKP is so great
• He told me to buy his Orb to ask
• I accepted & purchased the Orb for ~$20 in ETH.
• Damn gas fees add up fast though, ~$6 to buy it and then invoke it.

https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1750752018124202198

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My Questions

• Eric very graciously offered me the chance to ask multiple questions and didn’t publicise until I’d had a chance to ask

https://eric.orb.land/invocation/1

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Eric’s Answer

• Delivered at the last minute
• 2519 word essay
• To be read in full:

https://eric.orb.land/invocation/1

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My Thoughts

• Overall, a little disappointed
• His characterisation of my hopes is accurate - but only gets about 30% of the way there which is a big miss
• Isn’t this guy Tommy a BSVer? Where in this story is the BCHer?
• His marketing strategy is - give up / pick a random tech thing to shill ala LN/ZKP?
• Crypto is won at the cultural, not tech level

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Eric’s Follow Up

• In later discussion with Fiendish Crypto & Bitcoin Cash Autist, Eric realises that he’s several years behind the BCH meta
• Showed some interest when invited to come hang out at BLISS
• Hopefully he does at least watch the livestream
• I’m looking forward to having a much more cordial relationship from now on

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Other Commentary

• Loads of people jumped in.
• BSV style worst take from Hector Lopez- “Eric said big blockers were right!”
• They’re still salty, still dishonest
• BCH can demonstrate they’re better than this
• I discussed with some BTC guy who was still traumatized by The Blocksize War
• Unaware how different things are in BCH
• We need to help them recover

https://twitter.com/TheBCHPodcast/status/1754138352100540556

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Community Comment Of The Week

• See you at BLISS!

https://t.me/thebitcoincashpodcast_discussion/86130

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Other News

• Mark Lamb is shutting down OPNX, 2 weeks to withdraw
• Another scam successfully executed
• BitBoy crypto does a non terrible video about BCH
• Swan team surprised to hear about their own deleted content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diu313Q4r4o

https://twitter.com/TheBCHPodcast/status/1752685470885048701?t=IiNL4Eh_jv2icDOAJs07kw&s=19

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Message To The Community

Open platform to speak to the Bitcoin Cash community, with any thoughts, advice, feedback, criticism, encouragement, story or point of view you feel should be more prominent or appreciated.

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