I've never heard of someone that became a maxi when they first heard of bitcoin. If you are one, select that option below (though its hard to believe.)
When you first decided to dive into 'crypto' what was your reason to prefer alts rather than the only true limited asset?
Bitcoin is old tech7.4%
They're all distributed...3.7%
Too few transactions/sec3.7%
Maxis are toxic!7.4%
I can't mine BTC with a GPU7.4%
Lightning didn't exist18.5%
The blockwars and hardforks0.0%
I was born a maxi!37.0%
I'm only in it for the fiat14.8%
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Most of the maxis are old bitcoiners. In those times was quite hard to dismiss Bitcoin, only if you were a real ignorant or really busy with your hamster life.
In 2012, april I think, I went to buy some beers with 20 bucks in my pocket. On the way I met an old friend, that start talking about how he mine BTC (that time was still possible to mine with a GPU). So he ended by selling me 1 BTC for those beer money.
I went home and start reading more about Bitcoin, he indicate me to read the Satoshi's papers, so I did. My first thought was: damn... this is exactly what I was looking for to FUCK THE BANKS.
So I read and read and start reading the bitcointalk forum etc. I also start mining with a GPU, then with those Antminer USBs. I was fascinated by all the documentation and what can be done with Bitcoin. I NEVER STOP BELIEVING IN BITCOIN because I knew what is Bitcoin.
My wife asked me where are the beers and I said: I drink them with a friend. I never told her I bought "funny money" :)
So no, I never dismiss Bitcoin.
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WRONG. Most toxic maxis are new bitcoiners that camouflage their insecurity with being toxic.
Old bitcoiners are chill because they know Bitcoin is inevitable, don't need to be toxic since they have logic based arguments and know that calm convincing reaches more people than toxic circlejerkig which only reaches edgelords.
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Common parlance is that all maxis are toxic maxis. I believe there is a difference, and rather than recognizing it as an insult its better to to adopt it and redefine it as simply one that believes bitcoin is inevitable over any alt or fiat. This business of alts being immoral, well I'll agree with you there about toxic insecurity. People are going to make the wrong decisions, and some will admit it when they see the light in regard to bitcoin v.s. alts. It takes wisdom, or apathy, to allow people to make mistakes rather than trying to be a white knight and saving them from themselves. Better to be humble in your knowledge than to judge others for their lack of it.
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Agreed I'm a maxi (=Bitcoin only) but I'm not toxic (=meet people where they need to be met).
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half pregnant...
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Good to have people like you. Personally, most people that I meet that are into cry-pto have all the information they need but still lick the boot and want those sweet fiat gainz.
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Yes! #74889 Sorry I feel like I'm shilling my own post but look I wrote about this but like from the perspective of someone being toxic to becoming more chill.
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I was "chill" and not saying anything from 2012 until 2020. I wasn't active anywhere online, just reading and learning. But from 2020 I decided to come out and speak loud and fight against the plethora of shitcoins and people defending this disease. I said, enough is enough, I cannot handle this shit anymore. That's when you became "toxic", when you defend Bitcoin with all you have.
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I believe Saylor when he says the 'swarm of hornets' is a feature and not a 'bug'
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Came across it in 2011. Bought some. Sold it. Just wasn't interested. I didn't understand how bad the fiat ponzi was. Until COVID.
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The plandemic red-pilled a lot of people and I'm there for it.
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I didn't understand the nature of fiat money, so I couldn't appreciate the breakthrough of bitcoin.
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None of that I just wanted to get rich quick
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Now I'm fine with not getting poor slowly
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I added that
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None of the above. I know about bitcoin since 2010, but at the time I was too much of a normie to accept the bitcoin narrative at the time (that fiat has no value and has no backing). I only swallowed the orange pill in 2021.
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Look man i just really liked GPUs at the time haha
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Bitcoin was the only "crypto" the time I first saw it. I just didn't understand it.
I bought Bitcoin first. Then years later also bought eth and litecoin (demonstrating my continued aloofness).
Then I really dug into Bitcoin and Bitcoin Twitter (see: story) during the blockwars and became a "maxi."
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I already was an an-cap libertarian and into Austrian economics when I heard of Bitcoin in 2011. I dismissed it at first since I thought "it's digital, therefore it's not scarce, therefore it can't be a money (following from principles of Austrian economics)"
During the early-2013 bull run, I took another look at it and understood how the 21 million BTC cap works. As soon as I understood that, my reaction was "well, this is the end of the nation state as we know it." I've been a maximalist since then.
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I have only bought Bitcoin and never bothered with other coins. I originally bought in 2013 but then spent it on a VPN.
I didn't really think much of it and considered it more of a cool internet toy than anything serious. I never read deeply into Bitcoin and found to confusing and cumbersome to use.
This is my only regret in life.
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I first started researching Bitcoin in earnest during the summer of 2020.
Bitcoin looked promising to me, but I assumed like many that surely it was "old tech" to eventually be superseded by something else. This is what happens with almost all software, so I figured it would be the same for Bitcoin.
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It was too hard to buy
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I have never dismissed Bitcoin. I had a friend and co-worker in 2010, and we had good discussions about economics, freedom, and a little bit about a new currency called Bitcoin, so I gifted him some. I gave him 5 Bitcoins in 2010, but I can see on-chain that it has never moved. Even though it was non-KYC Bitcoin, he was concerned his name and information was attached to it. Hopefully he still kept the keys and I'm just not aware, but I'm afraid it is lost.
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2012ish: "If it endangers the state they will shut it down soon"
Seems like it's being kept alive for a little longer. Hope it's due to strength rather than getting us used to CBDCs.
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They can't shut down truly decentralized stuff. Otherwise they would have snuffed it out long ago like the liberty coin.
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