Welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast.

Hi there, welcome to episode 13 of the What Bitcoin did podcast

and this week's show has already proved to be controversial as on

Sunday I met with Dr Craig Wright. I put this out on Twitter and I've already

had quite a bit of feedback, some positive, people who really want to hear the interview, and yeah, quite a few that are negative.

So this intro might be a little bit longer than normal as there's a few things I want to cover. So one of the things

that came up on Twitter a few times was people asking me why I'm going to give a

platform to this fraud which is a question which really echoes what Vitalik Booter in said at the

recent Deeconomy conference. So look I recognize the issues that people have with Craig but

whether you like or not or whether you agree with

Bitcoin Cash or not, he is working on a project which has a legitimate right to exist in the ecosystem.

We have the right and the ability in open source projects to fork coins and

Bitcoin Cash is a coin which exists on coin base one of only four they sell so

the Bitcoin Cash side of things is a debate I want to have with him but I did also want to talk to him about a few of the other things and controversies around him also I don't agree with Vital Also I don't agree with

Italic. I don't agree that it is a right approach to try and censor Craig

or for a community leader to push for that. I think it's far better if we don't

like someone or we don't agree with someone that we challenge them and we discuss these issues with them.

So yeah, I met with Craig. From my limited knowledge, I support off-chain scaling, but I would never claim to be technical enough to really know which is best

My opinion is often influenced by those people on this side of the scaling debate who I respect and trust people like Jameson Lop and Charlie Lee who have both been on the podcast

But I could never say that I really truly understand what is technically best

I just understand the arguments which have put to me, but I'm out there to interview people and I don't want to live in an echo chamber and I think all size of the debate should be heard.

So I'm not just here to interview our heroes. I'll interview

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