There is nothing inherently wrong with being a maxi. The hostility is what wears people down. Once the hive turns on you, its over. That isn't helping anyone. Call out the scams and offer your guidance, we absolutely need that.

Just sick and tired of the purity tests.

To clarify: I am myself a bitcoin maxi. I am currently only invested in Bitcoin. It is the hostility part of maximalism that I believe turns people off and is counterproductive to increased bitcoin adoption.

There are some interesting things going on outside of Bitcoin, it is not all scams.

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I'm going to step on a beehive with this one, but I think it needs to be said. I don't necessarily think shitcoins are all bad. After all, manure is useful for fertilizing your fields. I won't pretend that shitcoins are anything worth HODLing or that they are a threat to bitcoin, they are certainly a distraction, but the shitcoins serve a purpose other than enriching devils and pandering to FOMO. The purpose of shitcoins in the larger scheme of things is to explore a new idea and new technologies built around blockchain, to 'flesh out' the alternative designs and provide a means by which to solidify ideas which could be incorporated into bitcoin as the need arises. With regard to trading in shitcoins, there are many maxis that argue you are immoral for doing so. Lets take my case of having a bag of dogshit coins from many years ago that one certain BS artist wants to promote because he thinks he's being funny. When they went to nearly $0.75 I offloaded them faster than you can squish on a bag of flaming dogshit. Was it immoral for me to do this? Am I promoting the shitcoin scams by selling them? A purist might say I should have sent all of them to a burn address or deleted my keys, I say no. Why is it moral to sell your bags of shitcoins? The same reason its moral to sell your grandmother's 5ct diamond ring, because I don't have any use for it but someone knows someone that does. Why do people want gold bars? Could it be they want to melt it down and use it to sputter on a semiconductor? Probably not, but maybe and the gold bar stacker is competing for the same gold as those in Austin wanting to build a semiconductor fab, so me selling it to a dealer who will probably sell it to a stacker isn't immoral because its none of my business. The pure act of selling it says enough, that you don't want or need it. Why do you need to convince everyone else they shouldn't want it? Some people only learn the hard way, and why should they believe you when you look exactly like just another crypto-pumper?

Not OP but I would say convincing people via being condescending instead of meeting them half way and try to adapt the arguments depending on your conversation partner.

I don't mind toximaxis. However there are lots of low quality input from certain circles. Not even arguments but just straight up meh stuff like putting someone's head on top of another image or video. Its not even amusing.

To make things worse, other kinds of unsavory trolls are using maximalism to co-op their ideologies. I'm talking about things like "real bitcoiners need to live like this, eat that and be religious like me" along with utterly nonsensical stupidity like "pets are fake love you need a family" (yeah this happened).

I'm amazed people like Alex Gladstein managed to keep general respect up to now. The people I've mentioned surely would salivate at the idea of mob canceling him.

There's a bunch of "finance" people that are just not worth the time to listen to on Twitter. With devs you just get much clearer signal...

I don't really see any shitcoin content, so I guess I did good on not following that type of people. My guilty pleasure is following https://twitter.com/arthur_van_pelt and his BSV posts for the entertainment value.

Saifedan, PlanB