Some influencers may not deserve your time and attention.
One of the things that I hate the most is; people in the crypto world trying to talk as if their words have merit even when they are meaningless and don't have the proof behind them. In other words, empty words, and I hate it even more when regular people go and listen to them without trying to pay any attention or do any research on the part of the listener or audience.
One such person is Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum. We all need a cryptocurrency whose fees are not higher than $0.05, yet his cryptocurrency now has high costs. Some users have been forced to pay hundreds of dollars, and many others have been forced not to use the Ethereum blockchain. Even when Ethereum has that problem, Vitalik dears to speak about scaling.
In the real world, either you know how to do a job or don't, but you don't get the job if you don't know. The customers look for someone else that has the experience and the knowledge to do the job, and the individual with the right expertise will get the job and get paid for his contribution. In the crypto world, that doesn't happen, and people who don't do the job get to speak as if they had experience doing the job even when they don't.
It is the case for Vitalik Buterin, who speaks of scalability even when his project doesn't scale. He is just becoming another Bitcoin maximalist saying that Ethereum 2.0 will be here in 18 months. Meanwhile, those promoting scaling as we speak right now get ignored and often ridiculed. Bitcoin Cash is scaling, and the Bitcoin and Ethereum crews can't accept that because it will mean the end for their coin, and they will lose a lot of fiat value if they admit that the BCH network is scaling, but that bluff will only work for a while.
It is only a matter of time before the whole world realizes that Bitcoin Cash works, and Bitcoin Cash will get the place it deserves, position number one. The final debate between BTC and BCH will be won with pure, unadulterated hard work and merit. Like NoiseCash proved that BCH can create the same number of transactions and that big blocks will work. The same thing will happen for smartBCH. The usage and utility will be so high that no one will be able to deny that Bitcoin Cash is scaling on-chain and with decentralization intact.
Another person is Andreas Antonopoulos, who uses the Bitcoin name to earn a living as a speaker. He has failed to pronounce himself and is bought by the Blockstream propaganda. He knows that high fees mean that Bitcoin Core has failed in its mission to become the ultimate peer-to-peer electronic cash system, and he hasn't demanded that the high fees issue be resolved at once in both networks, BTC and ETH. But history will pass the bill to him sooner or later, and eventually, people will forget about him and his sins against the satoshi idea.
Andreas has betrayed us all by not speaking and by actually not speaking out about the centralization of Lightning Network with more and more custodian wallets and the fact that it will be impossible to pay high fees to open and close channels for the average user. He hasn't said anything when services like the wallet of satoshi use such deceiving names.
Even Elon Musk gets on my list because he is trying to impose his ideas of environmental justice when people that are rich like him are the ones that are contaminating the whole world the most. Think of Coca-Cola and its plastic bottles of sugary poison water. Why doesn't Coke use something reusable to save the environment? Could SpaceX be contaminating the air with so many rockets launched to the moon?
Miners will switch to solar energy or other renewables once they become affordable enough to buy and use that energy. After all, miners are always looking for a way to save a buck in electricity. Elon wants to use his name to create yet another shitcoin because, with his money, he could pay for research and develop more energy-efficient solar panels and make them even more affordable. He is just trying to protect his wallet and fiat system that gives him zero interest fiat money to reinvest on his stock, making him richer at your expense because you will pay the price with inflation.