This argument is coherent and I'm sympathetic to it. Bitcoin is already king of what it does so relentlessly doubling down on currency oriented features seems like a winning strategy. Frankly, it seems like this argument is winning from where I'm sitting.

To play devil's advocate, I guess the counter-argument would be that the market appears to be distracted with DeFi and by not engaging with it, Bitcoin loses market/mind share. I think Bitcoin DeFi people would probably also argue it isn't distracting - although more ambitious DeFi projects do seem to require soft forks of various kinds - so hard to see that it's not distracting in an absolute sense.

DeFi on Bitcoin also kind of scares me. Feature creep is bad and more powerful features lead to more powerful bugs, more powerful attacks, and more potential for hacks associated with Bitcoin's name.

DeFi is a siren distracting Bitcoin's path toward fully emerging as money. The first peer to peer electronic cash. 

If you want to meme a trend let it be ReFi. We're laying down the plumbing for BTC to refinance the entire global economy

muneebs a shitcoiner who's rebranded his blockstack failure to target bitcoiners

Hard to admit but this is my first time realizing Clarity is a Lisp (of which I am a big fan).

I've seen some people in the community be kind of negative toward Stacks. Anyone know why? Is it because it introduces a token? Embraces too many use cases we find on Ethereum?