I'm sometimes ambivalent about the toxicity of bitcoin maximalists, myself included. I'm also not going to say he doesn't make a valid point about the almost religious way some of us worship bitcoin, but Nic Carter has his own agenda here. He makes his money off of altcoins. He doesn't understand why bitcoiners are happy to see Binance and Coinbase get attacked, while in the same tweet talks about shilling icos! That's the problem. People have been victimized by these companies. His "why can't we all get along" attitude about these exchanges doesn't address the human pain those companies caused,( the shilling, the front running, the wash trades), nor his role in that pain.
I agree that bitcoin maximalism shouldn't be based on axioms. I believe in God, everyone else needs to bring evidence. I think given available evidence, bitcoin is the best option available. If something better comes along, we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot to ignore it. If someone wants to convince me that his shitcoin is awesome, I'm willing to hear him out, but since I used to collect shitcoins as if they were pokemon - gotta catch them all - I already know which questions to ask.
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I also think he has a good point about religion here.
But I think he uses it in this way: "It sounds too crazy to be true".
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The classic, "Please let us scam in peace"
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