I notice you haven't answered my question. What motivated you to treat me in this extremely discourteous way?

We're talking about this quote:

> Without an exchange your bitcoin is not a liquid asset, it's even less liquid than most commodity for which there are digital exchange marketplace. You can sell it over the counter, but that makes it an asset comparable to real estate in terms of liquidity.

There is nothing in the tone of this utterance that suggests that it's joking, sarcastic, or hyperbolic; it's a series of apparently serious, sincere, literal claims which simply happen to be completely unrelated to reality.

> you to treat me in this extremely discourteous way?

This is hilarious, you talk shit to people and then whine about people being discourteous.

I don't agree with your implicit assertion that selectively quoting me in a way calculated to give a false impression that I said something obviously false is comparable in its level of discourtesy to me telling you that you are full of shit.

Try selling more than $100 to the guy at the news stand and you’ll see how liquid it is.

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44478731 he clarifies that it wasn't intended as hyperbole in any way.

Somehow I’m seeing the complete opposite, the comments clarifies quite directly that it was used as a hyperbole