I've sat and listened to this entire thing (the soundcloud link), and by the time it ended, Darryl had reached such a level of fervor, hair-splitting, and even purposely using terms that he knew did not qualify (multi-level marketing) with his objections that it truly seemed like he was speaking solely from a position of someone who was absolutely terrified that this might be a competitor to his precious Bitcoin.
He didn't seem to be coming from a position of someone who was skeptical, but someone who was actually angry that the currency and system even existed.
It was just very strange and even surreal, the level of vehemence he had.
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@hoopatang - I agree. I find Darryl quite nauseating. I thought @ftlian was open minded. @dollarvigilante did better than I would have done under Darryl's blah blah blah... But I think that a more knowledgeable representative like @piedpiper (if @ned and/or @dan can't do it), would be a better guest on FTL.
@freedomengineer I agreed with your view. Even though @dollarvigilante did a great job to the best of his abilities to expand on some concepts/features related to Steem & Steemit in the course of the show (considering that he has been around barely a week now). I will like to ask @ftlian to consider getting someone who has been around much longer and has much better understanding of Steemit like you suggested.
He reminded me of a child defending the existence of Santa Claus. Or this panda
Lol
it was getting silly
Great points. On the anger piece: I listened to the entire episode as well and it occurred to me while listening to Darryl that people who are concerned about their ability to create meaningful, insightful, entertaining and / or engaging content will fear Steemit because it really is a platform that aims to reward valuable content whereas Facebook just promotes whoever engages with you the most onto the top of your news feed. Steemit is more of a meritocracy and less of a troll-fest. It definitely seems to threaten Darryl.