A few months back, fiatjaf suggested Bitcoiners attack other chains.
He suggested attacking Ethereum and Monero. I may have some ethical qualms with the Monero part, since there may be some people who live in authoritarian countries that rely on it, but it is an interesting strategy. (Monero is #26 by Marketcap)
For one, if Bitcoiners destroyed your beloved shitcoin, would you then become a Bitcoiner? Maybe not. However, new people enter the cryptocurrency space every day, and if there are less alts out there, more may become Bitcoiners. Since such a small amount of the world is a Bitcoiner currently, it's important think about the normies enterring the space,
which I'm guessing doubles every cycle, at least.
I understand attacking Ethereum more. It's the #2 spot. Ethereum has also many times, in promoting itself, done so by pointing out things Bitcoin can't do. Other coins, such as Solana or Ripple may actually have been funding PR attacks against Bitcoin.
Attacking these coins could have a lot of merit. Not just for chasing users, but for refunding these misinformation campaigns.
Another institution that would benefit Bitcoin & Bitcoiners to defund is BSV. The coins value literally funds court costs to sue Bitcoin developers and content creators. An incredibly small amount of BTC's hashrate can be used to 51% attack their network, and since, they think "non-mining nodes" aka "nodes" are "useless" users have no way of rejecting this majority hashrate.
I think even to the average non-maximalist "crypto enthusiast" Craig is a joke/the bad guy, and suing people for putting the White Paper online is generally seen as not amiable behavior. However, I am not sure if attacking other coins will be seen
favorably by the crypto community. And remember, most maximalists didn't start out that way.
Since it wouldn't be seen as favourable behavior by the community doesn't necessarily mean that nobody should do it, but rather, nobody should admit that they did it publicly. Which I know would be pretty hard, because one would want to brag that they brought down whatever coin.
I suppose, if people suspected Bitcoiners were attacking them, I fear it could bring retaliation. To everyone who is thinking "Bring it!!," remember the Lightning Network is not necessary as resistant to attacks as the base layer. By Any means.
Anyway, what do you guys think? Should effort be put into this? What about towards coins that have been hostile to Bitcoin?