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I'd argue that if falling in either of the 3 camps was enough to make one a Bitcoiner, it'd be easier to make Bitcoiners.
Bitcoiners are rare I think because it takes a multi-disciplinary person, spanning the 3 (and maybe even 4th + 5th) categories, to really get it at a level they don't get shaken out over time.
i. the technically-minded
Problem with someone purely technically minded is that they will inevitably chase shitcoins, there's always a technical "improvement" that can be made, and always a shitcoin to offer said improvement.
Purely technical people, lacking multi-disciplinary traits, are Bitcoin's greatest liability. They fail to recognize its value is from being a paragon of stability and relative simplicity, and so they're always seeking to change it... fortunately they fail more often than not due to a design meant to resist them, and end up shitcoiners.
ii. the economically-minded
Econ brains fall back to the no-intrinsic value trope, lack of MoE traction. Gold bugs can be great econ minds, but dismiss Bitcoin because they're not speculative or technical enough.
iii. the speculative investors (aka fiat/ngu maxis)
Another group trapped by shitcoins, nft's and other high-time-preference degeneracy, they need to be grounded in some technicals and economics to get Bitcoin.
and maybe even a 4th or 5th
Anthropology and Game/Adversarial theory are 4th and 5th columns I'd say are required, if not lumped into the others.
mass adoption
I think the silver lining is most people think through a consensus filter, they have no principles or understanding beyond their own survival, so run with the herd.
Bitcoiners being multi-disciplinary are an intransigent herd, they don't break off into other herds even if those other herds are bigger. Their numbers are therefore a one-way-ratchet, and the size of that herd compounds on itself... eventually attracting people on scale alone.
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I simply already hated the banks and bankers and they way that have captured our governments/democracies and media narratives. So Bitcoin was an easy sell to me!
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