0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 30 Jan \ on: Why am I not a bitcoin maximalist? bitcoin
I mean, of course in general there is always room for multiplicity and different ideas. I'd argue bitcoin maximalism isn't some intolerant religious madness, it's an understandable result of a quite curious exception:
Tech-wise, are other projects good? I'm dure there are some great projects there. The problem is that they're all made by dev teams, financed by VC, with paid programmers and boards and lawyers.
Bitcoin isn't king because it has unattainable, inimitable tech. Of course it's not inimitable. Its status, I'd argue, comes solely from something the others don't -want- to attain: its orphan status. Because it has no team, no VC, no company, no institutionalized dev team, it's becme unassailable by the power sztructres that be. They gain control over everything (and the rich parts of the "everything" gets control over them because they have to be incorporated, have a legal form, and as that, they're in the grips of the existing power structures.
How's Monero on this? This is an honest question,