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22 sats \ 4 replies \ @nerd2ninja 11 Jul 2022 \ parent \ on: I am moving over from Twitter bitcoin
I think the community at large has felt that hostility was needed to distance Bitcoin from other stuff. Scams and other things, have used Bitcoin as a recuting mechanism and when people get burned from a scam, they tend to blame Bitcoin for it because they don't really understand the difference.
But at least here, where there's no one to really make a show distancing to, no one to protect and quite frankly no straight out scams to call out lol, I don't mind writing in long form to explain my thoughts. Especially since here there is no character limit.
There are cases where hostility is warranted, but it should not be the default. Bitcoin is growing, and if that is the ultimate goal, it's important to not needlessly drive people away through flagrant hostility.
I'll get hostile when they start infringing on the right to self-custody, coin join or many other hard line issues. However, I don't really find shouting down people like Nic Carter to be in any way useful.
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I don't know, Nic Carter may very well need to be outcasted. Bitcoiners don't like being associated with the bad names other projects bring. I think Nic Carter developed such strong cases for Bitcoin to do the very thing Bitcoiners want to stop. I think Nic Carter may very well have used Bitcoin as a recruiting mechanism for these other projects his company is invested in.
The reason other projects use Bitcoin as a recruiting mechanism is because of the common perception that someone who is interested in Bitcoin must be new and doesn't know about all the other stuff and hasn't gotten the scars from all the other stuff.
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The only character limit here is the limit of your character. ;)
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