The most “toxic” thing about a bitcoin maximalist is the steadfast willingness to say “no.” Having studied monetary theory and history, and having experienced unforgiving market forces, the bitcoiner maintains an understanding of the realities of monetary competition, a recognition of the mission-critical nature of decentralized systems engineering, a focus on solving the most important monetary problems, and a strict avoidance of the inevitable distractions, opportunity costs, and ethical qualms of launching and promoting altcoin projects.
I wish Goldstein still wrote about bitcoin. I feel like decent long form bitcoin writers are shrinking in supply, and bitcoin's cannon is increasingly AI slop, sneaky promotional things, and fast thinking podcasts. (I'm probably just being nostalgic.)
This was shared a few years ago: #104979