If you have not heard of the prolific JStodd, you've probably had an interaction with one of his many sockpuppets. JStodd is an interesting character. Very young, dare I say intelligent, boy.
Now, I know that using the word intelligent to describe JStodd is going to immediately cause some people to spit out their coffee.
Hear me out.
JStodd is the perfect youthful mix of arrogance and ignorance. He is full of ideas but has no foundation or understanding with which to build them. That doesn't stop him from immediately thinking that his ideas are the best ones ever, though.
His style of arrognorance is very unique. You can usually tell when it's him no matter which one of his several accounts he is using (plus he has not figured out how to create new phone numbers yet so I'm pretty sure he keeps using other phones).
One of my more memorable interactions with him is worth mentioning here. It was one of the first times he really caught my attention. There was an obnoxiously arrogant boy trying to give Amaury Sechet advice about the direction that he felt BCH should take. I wish I could remember the specific interaction but it was such a bad take that A.S. didn't mince words. He told him pretty bluntly that it was a stupid idea. JStodd was so appalled at the incompetence of this man. How could he, a man who has been involved in the project since the start and a career developer, tell JStodd that his idea was stupid? I'm sure JStodd had watched at least a couple of YouTube videos before he came up with his brilliant nugget.
This was, I think, the first time that he rage quit any crypto. Thinking about this more I very much doubt it, but it was the first time we all were able to witness in the Bitcoin related portion of his adventures.
After being dismissed by Amaury he decided that BSV held the answer to the future of Blockchain. He spent several weeks watching at least a few more YouTube videos I'm sure. He became an overnight BSV expert. Around this time a quite obviously fake Craig Wright entered one of the chats he liked to frequent. "Craig" started spouting nonsense that happened to be the exact opposite of JStodd's enlightened reasons for chosing BSV in the first place.
What happened next should have been predictable, but it caught me off-guard how easy and quickly his transformation was. As soon as he decided that CSW must be a fool for disagreeing with him he immediately became disillusioned with the project. A few YouTube videos later he came back almost as quickly trying to tell us how great NANO was, how NANO was the only project that could REALLY scale. This new fascination with NANO didn't last long, maybe a week or two. I'm not in any NANO communities so I couldn't tell you why he quit so soon...I'm sure you might be able to guess, though.
Nice story