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114 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 15 Jul 2023 \ on: Bitcoin has no community bitcoin
Bitcoin has no community
I see where you are coming from but that sounds intellectually dishonest.
On one side, you describe how "crypto bros" behave and thus you are describing a community. And the other side, you say bitcoin has no community. I think that's an argument I would not bring up against "crypto bros" since it's not easy to keep up.
For example, this is the definition I found for the term "community":
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighbourhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community
Since "bitcoiners" are interested in bitcoin, I would say that there is indeed a bitcoin community. Maybe not the bitcoin community, but there definitely are communities. For example, you can consider all the meetups all around the world as bitcoin communities. Or SN itself. Is SN not a bitcoin community?
But you can group all of these communities back into one global community again.
Hence, I believe there is indeed a bitcoin community. It's just global. Like other cryptocurrencies.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 15 Jul 2023
agree with all you're saying. I guess i mean to comment more so on the culture war between bitcoiners and crypto maxis in general -- i just argue the "communities" are not very comparable to each other. Both global, but on a much different scale.
Certainly there are different communities of bitcoiners, but the "toxic bitcoin maxi" community doesn't really exist like many in crypto say it does.
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