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This reads like one of those threatened authoritarian dictators blaming the recent mass protests on 'foreign agitators'.

It's also completely generic. If someone important had died, the advice would include 'murder the key people and make it look like an accident'. If there had been a crippling bug, it'd be 'introduce critical bugs into the software'.

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This was my take exactly. Also, the strategy seems ineffectual, focusing mostly on influencing discussion communities when the real rub with Bitcoin has been disagreement among the core devs. If someone's goal was to stop or slow Bitcoin, you'd think they'd focus their strategy on at least trying to shape the behavior of core devs and trying to drive wedges among them.

Well you're just engaging in the tactic of discrediting the defenders. You must be one of the foreign agitators threatening the community.

Then again, the authoritarian dictator has to play up the credibility of the foreign agitators so they seem more real. I must be a member of the regime trying to consolidate power.

It's bots and sock puppets all the way down.

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