I feel there is a lot of intellectual dishonesty in the Bitcoin space. For starters, financial freedom technology naturally attracts individualists, so a rich diversity of opinions is only natural. Yet somehow the discourse is heavily circumscribed.
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I guess bitcoin appeals to a certain type rn. I may be largely “that type”, but I don’t buy all the narratives. More bitcoiners should push back against bitcoin dogma. e.g. it’s okay to be vegan if that’s your thing, even though it’s not my thing
love this!
The “staying humble” piece of Stay Humble, Stack Sats is just lost on some, I guess.
We are all - every one of us - potentially experts on one thing…and two or three, if we are extraordinary outliers.
Most of the off-putting hubris is from online NPCs and it is a reflection of a couple influencer-types who profess to be, or whose attitudes suggest because they have “figured out the money” (read a couple books and can parrot author talking points): their word is the gospel on all subjects.
Most Bitcoiners I’ve met IRL are as humble as they come.
No one can be a true expert in Austrian Economics, and Bitcoin, and Nutrition, and Politics, and Coding, and Seed Oils, and Fitness, and Human Rights, and Social “Science”, and Biology, and History, and Vaccines, and Literature…
The person who puts themselves out there on all these topics with authority is an expert in bullshit, but that’s about it, I think.
I spent most my time in this world feeling out of place amongst people who own btc. At least the online version of them.
I’m going to try and not let that bother me. I always assume most folks will mute me anyway.
Identifying as a Bitcoiner effectively circumscribes which financial freedom technologies are available for consideration. Was the discourse more open and more intellectually honest in the pre-Bitcoin era?
I think you can be a bitcoiner and be open to considering various forms of freedom both financial and otherwise.
e.g. a lot of bitcoiners are talking about ecash and various forms of stablecoins/stablecash these days. I even know hardcore bitcoiners who are developing stablecoin solutions that touch alternative L1s. this kind of stuff seems to more commonly discussed in private
I think there were fewer lanes of opinions considered reasonable pre-internet. There are vastly more lanes that people will express now. That opens up to better discovery of fundamental truths we may have missed before.
There’s more tribalism online now than there was pre-bitcoin. The online platforms were much less algorithmically driven pre-bitcoin. I think that’s the biggest change.
Well done, you have nailed my underlying intention with L1 needing to be on the table and tribalism addressed. One thing with L1 is the time factor, as the right L1 could effectively present with faith accompli. Do you have suggestions as to how to access the private discussions?
In any event, thanks for this well-considered response, and in particular for the positive note that in fact more lanes of inquiry are now open, and the whole principle that there can be yet more fundamental truths still needing to be uncovered via free discourse.
