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22 sats \ 3 replies \ @nullcount 17 Jul 2023 \ on: RANT: On the things we need to call out: Extremism and idiocy bitcoin

Be aware of the bias towards the loud minority.

There's an overwhelming majority of "bitcoin normies" that have adopted bitcoin without ever feeling compelled to talk about it publicly or attend meetups.

The "crazies" are 100x more likely to start a podcast and devote their lives to spreading some message they feel compelled to get out.

The "fanatics" are 10x more likely to attend a meetup and surround themselves with other fanatics.

Also be aware of the cultural bias.

Bitcoin is global and as English speakers in the west, we don't get exposed to the Eastern/Mandarin bitcoiner culture. For starters, BIP 39 seed words aren't as popular in the East because of the English words used in the spec.

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @Lumor 17 Jul 2023

Any idea of what they use instead of BIP 39 seed words?

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @nullcount 17 Jul 2023

I read somewhere that they use numbers instead of the words. So something like this could be a seed phrase:

0001 0002 0003 0004 ... 2048

EDIT: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md

I also just posted this to try and solicit some china-btc cultural insight from the stackers: #210392

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lumor 18 Jul 2023

Yeah, I was aware of localized word lists. Interesting about the raw numbers.

Thanks for posting the other thread! Checking out the podcast posted by @siggy47