The vast majority of toxicity from Bitcoin maxis is a direct response to the worst anti-bitcoin, nocoiner, fiat maxi types. People who constantly repeat the weakest arguments and FUD against bitcoin. I have never witnessed first hand a toxic response to a curious open minded person asking honest questions.

I know a person who is a relative of my family. He owns 20 whole Bitcoins and is too much arrogant. I tried asking him a lot of times how to start, but he gets annoyed and angry just by asking simple questions. If anyone asks anything regarding Bitcoin, he just shamelessly says, "You don’t even deserve to own it." He never taught us anyone anything. That’s why I started searching online and found this site. I made a promise to myself that from 2025, I will try to own as many Satoshis as I can. I don’t know what a toxic Bitcoin maximalist is—I need to look it up. And by orange pilling, do you mean introducing people to Bitcoin? Like in The Matrix? Or something else? But yeah, rudeness in general is not a very good thing; people tend to back off. Sweetness and Kindness is a special gift.

I think people over-complicate this. Toxic maxis are basically the same as toxic-anybodies: they enjoy being dicks, and so they are dicks. And then, just like all dicks, they find a way to justify their behavior so it seems to be the expression of some deeply-held values.

Here's an experiment: if you run into a "toxic maxi" that you know IRL, ask yourself if they're toxic in other aspects of their lives, too. I expect you'll encounter zero examples of good, thoughtful dudes who are simply so inflamed by the principles of btc that they turn into raving douches in this arena only. Even online you can see the evidence for this wider toxicity everywhere.

Less ego, more education without insulting others.

i think sometimes it's someone wanting to troll a bit sometimes it's autistic genius that got in early and have a mad stack and don't like the mindset of newer people (ngu, efts etc) and i think sometimes it's just after a while people get so sick of seeing the same bullshit and fake news everywhere that they become callous and, as a side effect, a bit toxic

I find sharing few sats with friends and family a great way to help initiate themself to Bitcoin, as stupid this might sound but a few 1000 Sats gift here and there is like planting seeds for the new couple years. instead of spreading memes to them, 2 years ago I decided to share some Sats with them instead, I never thought these people would ever change their mind but to my surprise today they are stacking Sats for their future, so It worked for me in a low time preference way since told them to keep it for more than 3 years and teach them more about it on a whatsapp group.

There are a bunch of toxic maximalist around here as well. You're right that they need to find better ways to deal with their emotions (ego). Insulting anyone isn't gonna do anything good for Bitcoin, kindness is better and always works.

Toxic people aren't exclusive to Bitcoin they are found everywhere. These people deliberately try to insult others and run their own agenda. There are definitely better ways and one of them is putting forward the shortcomings of someone/something without being disrespectful.

You are on to something. Its been my observation for a while that many bitcoiners have high time preference.

We also see this in the MoE and SoV debates which are pretty high time pref in my opinion.

I honestly think one of the biggest reasons for high time preference in bitcoin is a simple question of age. I'm a gen X guy but bitcoin is full of much younger men. With age you gain experience and often its my observation that a lot of the behaviour I see is likely immaturity and bravodo. I suspect this will shift as the median age of bitcoiners grows.

Finally good tech with long term staying power and incentives take a while to become widely accepted. The Internet is a great example. There are others. Eventually all tech becomes utility and ceases to be considered tech but rather just a part of life. Bitcoin will one day reach this level.

Love the term "first-cycler"! Will steal

My two sats: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/in-defense-of-bitcoin-culture-

I get the toxicity, but from my view - people need to take a chill pill and do more productive things than shit-posting and being agro to normies/no coiners. You all have been proven right over the past decade, I say avoid the low-road leader behavior

Here you have the explanatory meme

💯. I say let's ignore the toxic maxis. They are toxic in their personal life as well.

One of the highest time preference thing you can do is argue with shitcoiners on the internet.

Abreact. I was not aware of the existence of this word. Thank you for that. And for abreacting about toxic maximalism.

There is no benefit to be found in toxicity, it only causes harm.