Reminds me of when I was listening to AnCap Doug Casey tell us, maybe 250 attendees at a Libertopia, that the problem with libertarians is that we don't earn or have enough money to forward the movement and beat the statists.
I had been guilty of confirmation bias but after thinking about it, he was absolutely right.
We were too few to begin with, and were not even close to being united in what our future should look like. Even supporting bitcoin caused further division among the sparse libertarian community -- not from just the gold bugs either.
A lot of parallels exist in the Bitcoin movement today.
Take the catalyst for the BIP-110 fork, for example. To even the majority of people who claim to support Bitcoin, this op_return size and relay policy change was no big deal, if they even knew anything about it.
To the few of us who believe it was a big deal, we essentially simply don't earn or have enough money (and clout) to have prevented this situation we find ourselves in, today.
It is impossible to overstate how strongly the Bitcoin in-club feels about this. If you don’t self-custody – and until this happened, on a Coldcard by Coinkite – then you were not really a “true” Bitcoiner, you were just LARPing as one. A spectator in the land of the pureblood anarcho-capitalist cyberpunks.
It's silly to conflate "true Bitcoiners" with the terminally online podcast world
Reminds me of when I was listening to AnCap Doug Casey tell us, maybe 250 attendees at a Libertopia, that the problem with libertarians is that we don't earn or have enough money to forward the movement and beat the statists.
I had been guilty of confirmation bias but after thinking about it, he was absolutely right.
We were too few to begin with, and were not even close to being united in what our future should look like. Even supporting bitcoin caused further division among the sparse libertarian community -- not from just the gold bugs either.
A lot of parallels exist in the Bitcoin movement today.
Take the catalyst for the BIP-110 fork, for example. To even the majority of people who claim to support Bitcoin, this op_return size and relay policy change was no big deal, if they even knew anything about it.
To the few of us who believe it was a big deal, we essentially simply don't earn or have enough money (and clout) to have prevented this situation we find ourselves in, today.
Retarded take:
Retarded take (and the actual goal of the article)
Retarded take by another fake influencer complaining about fake influencers. People need to stop using Twitter.
It's silly to conflate "true Bitcoiners" with the terminally online podcast world
Exactly
The funny thing is Bitcoin was supposed to reduce the importance of gatekeepers, not create a new social class of real Bitcoiners.