What's your take on the David Baileys, Steven Lubkas, Cory Klipstens, Dan Helds, Saylors, etc, of the online Bitcoin scene?
To me, they seem like people who just care about playing the Wall Street game on top of Bitcoin. I probably shouldn’t call them grifters/scammers; that’s too harsh when you compare them with some of the actual ones (if you know, you know), because they aren’t committing any crime (that we know of).
To me, they just have too much of a fiat mindset that is incompatible with what I think Bitcoin is trying to achieve. Or maybe they are just mirrors of what we'd all become in case we were running the companies they are? My first instinct is to judge them harshly, so I'd be happy to have someone giving me some counterweight to my knee-jerk reaction, to help me judge them more generously.
Feel free to comment if you think they don't belong on the same list.
Reading myself, this sounds like a Bitcoin maxi purity test. Well, I wrote it, so I should just post it now.
I thought it was funny that you threw Dan Held in there. Haven't heard about him in years, he still around?
Saylor definitely has had a large impact (whether we like him or not).
Klipstein used to have influence when Swan was sponsoring every influencer in the space. Not so much anymore it seems.
Seems like we both mistyped his name. Klippsten it is~~
I initially thought him to be a good guy, calling out grifters, but he somehow lost that image the last few times I saw him write or post sth.
Had to look up Dan Held. He's still active. Seems he's into hyping up BTC DeFi, whatever that means.
I thought this would be an easy question to answer. It isn't.
I think I will go with net positive. My reasoning is that if Bitcoin is so weak that some ignorant affinity scammers can harm it, it must not be very durable.
This is a weak army though.
And then I stumble on this~~
view on x.comThat's why you don't play with sh$tcoins.
Hope the new generation will learn from the failure of these useless companies.
Every cycle has its grift. We all had to learn at some point.
So I made this: https://beta.predyx.com/market/will-naka-the-bitcoin-treasury-acquisition-company-experience-a-major-corporate-downfall-by-december-31-2026-2359-utc-1763449249~~