I like Toxic Bitcoin Maximalism

There is a certain kind of Bitcoiner exemplified by people like Mircea Popescu, a kind of bitcoiner who used to be called a toxic bitcoin maximalist.

Lately, though, it seems like the people who have laid claim to the term don't care much about censorship resistance or freedom or any of the things I associate with toxic maxies. Thank you very much, Mr Michael Saylor and your stupid facking cyber hornets.

Anyhow, I'd like to think about ways to revive the classic concept of Toxic Bitcoin Maximalism: people who are in it to break the law, because the law sucks; people who are in it to have fuck-you money; people who don't care who else uses bitcoin or what they want to do with it; people who know how to hurl a savage insult.

To that end...I'm working on a poster:

What are your ideas to bring back the good old toxic days

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144 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 9 Nov

Maybe it will happen now that treasury companies are going bust. All those newbie “bitcoiners” who pivoted to talking about treasury companies learn the hard way and become bitcoin maxis. Possible.

57 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 22h

Isn't the pattern that most will move on to the next scam, while a small slice become toxic maxis?

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 10h

I think you're spot on. I'm sure at least a percentage of them will be maxis in a year or two.

122 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 23h

Toxicity is an immune response

We had to fight the mind virri of shitcoins vs Bitcoin, time preference vs trading, self-custody vs custodians

The virri have mutated, so to has the immune response

Fake L2's vs Lightning, participation vs apathy, collateral vs equity

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SwapMarket 23h

virri

viruses

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 21h

222 sats \ 2 replies \ @deSign_r 16h

Better find a new definition, because today bitcoin toxic maximalists are no maximalists, nor toxic, and probably not eve bitcoiners. Like the term cypherpunks, these terms define something specific in a determinate period in time. That time has ended, and anything else outside that period simply become marketing propaganda to attract those that missed the train when the terms were coined.

Nice poster ~Design!

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 8h

The time has ended.

I hope not. But your point about terms having currency and meaning and then becoming (perhaps inevitably) distorted when they are used beyond that time frame does make sense. Perhaps it's just a term that we'll have to abandon. But I'm not yet ready to give up the fight.

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r 49m

The term bitconers will be always there, I think it is important to define it properly, before it gets misunderstood (even more).

Today bitcoin is synonym of crypto for the majority of people. If a fight is needed, it would be the fight to add a proper bitcoin and bitcoiner definition in the worldwide dictionaries.

This way does not get confused with paper-bitcoiners, suitcoiners, trustcoiners, cryptophilies, retarded-traders, etc...

102 sats \ 1 reply \ @rootmachine 14h

That dude is Romanian. It was a big buzz in Romania when he died in relation to his BTC wallet - which seems to be lost. Nice poster design!! Maybe try to lower the aggressive redness of the poster by making the BTC behind the killer guy (which needs pixel rate improvement for better contour definition) the normal colour? try to see if it works better.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 8h

oddly enough I began wiht bitcoin orange on the B behind the toxic avenger, but it was too similar to his skin and it felt like it blended in.

sadly enough I don't have a higher resolution base image to work with, so the pixel rate you see is what I'm stuck with. I could probably clean it up a little around the edges though.

happily enough "aggressive redness" is kinda what I was going for!

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 23h

Dunno if there's any way to bring them back. I think they've already accepted that it ain't worth wasting energy on lost causes! Ahahah

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @DP0604 23h

I think the same as you, the maximalist bitcoins have to return, those who hate the shicoins and the shitty system.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 15h

Start a [Fiat Funeral] meme contest

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 22h

truth is toxic to the barrage of wrong-think; bitcoin helps people regain the courage to speak against and act against all that is wrong in the world; it is no longer just about money the currency/token; truth is aggressive by nature - bitcoiners will continue to align with the correct way of living, help others do the same, or find out the hard way;

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @035736735e 9h outlawed

stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.