06-30-2022, 01:15 PM
Nic Carter on (toxic) bitcoin maximalism...
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Nic Carter pulling no punches in response to a pile on by bitcoin maxi’s after a tweet announcing an investment in Dynamic (not on bitcoin…)</p> <blockquote> <p>I’m not owed any deference, or anything at all, because of my prior work on Bitcoin. What I do think it does, unquestionably, is establish my pro-bitcoin credentials. If you think I’m a bitcoin grifter tediously building up a reputation in Bitcoin land over five years through countless articles, appearances, podcasts, and tens of millions of capital deployed, all to suddenly turn on Bitcoin — that’s the most long term and expensive grift of all time.</p> </blockquote> <p>​</p> <blockquote> <p>“It’s clear that there’s an awful sickness pervading the Bitcoin space. Most Bitcoiners are normal, good people. For the vast majority of them, there’s no lifestyle associated with owning Bitcoin, as it should be. But there’s a subset of people — a small, flailing, shrinking group — who are mostly new to Bitcoin, made Bitcoin their entire personality, and became completely emotionally invested in it. They are spoonfed on a diet of the same half dozen thinkers, and suffer from an ideological monoculture. They cannot extricate themselves from their lifestyle/investment, and so when anyone in the tribe or adjacent says anything that remotely contradicts their established dogma (which is inconsistent, morally confused, and indefensible anyway), they go on the attack.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Ooof.</p> <p>Full article: <a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/setting-the-record-straight-b4e1b415e7d9">https://medium.com/@nic__carter/setting-the-record-straight-b4e1b415e7d9</a></p> <p>Original tweet: <a href="https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1541865117553418242">https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1541865117553418242</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/yanwoo"> /u/yanwoo </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/vo3upw/nic_carter_on_toxic_bitcoin_maximalism/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/vo3upw/nic_carter_on_toxic_bitcoin_maximalism/">[comments]</a></span>
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Nic Carter pulling no punches in response to a pile on by bitcoin maxi’s after a tweet announcing an investment in Dynamic (not on bitcoin…)</p> <blockquote> <p>I’m not owed any deference, or anything at all, because of my prior work on Bitcoin. What I do think it does, unquestionably, is establish my pro-bitcoin credentials. If you think I’m a bitcoin grifter tediously building up a reputation in Bitcoin land over five years through countless articles, appearances, podcasts, and tens of millions of capital deployed, all to suddenly turn on Bitcoin — that’s the most long term and expensive grift of all time.</p> </blockquote> <p>​</p> <blockquote> <p>“It’s clear that there’s an awful sickness pervading the Bitcoin space. Most Bitcoiners are normal, good people. For the vast majority of them, there’s no lifestyle associated with owning Bitcoin, as it should be. But there’s a subset of people — a small, flailing, shrinking group — who are mostly new to Bitcoin, made Bitcoin their entire personality, and became completely emotionally invested in it. They are spoonfed on a diet of the same half dozen thinkers, and suffer from an ideological monoculture. They cannot extricate themselves from their lifestyle/investment, and so when anyone in the tribe or adjacent says anything that remotely contradicts their established dogma (which is inconsistent, morally confused, and indefensible anyway), they go on the attack.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Ooof.</p> <p>Full article: <a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/setting-the-record-straight-b4e1b415e7d9">https://medium.com/@nic__carter/setting-the-record-straight-b4e1b415e7d9</a></p> <p>Original tweet: <a href="https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1541865117553418242">https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1541865117553418242</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/yanwoo"> /u/yanwoo </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/vo3upw/nic_carter_on_toxic_bitcoin_maximalism/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/vo3upw/nic_carter_on_toxic_bitcoin_maximalism/">[comments]</a></span>