I had a fallout with a bitcoiner, maybe 2 years ago, because he disagreed with me regarding the fact that the constitution is just a piece of paper that literally cannot limit government. I was surprised how big of a statist he was.

The nonsensical infighting is what really blows my mind. I see them arguing about such trivial things. Last week I recognized the fact that these people will make an enemy out of someone when there isn’t clear evidence of malicious intent.

I don’t think it’s your experience in a cult that made you adopt this us vs them mindset. This is our tribalism that we evolved with. It exists in every aspect of life. Politicians dems vs republicans. Sports lakers vs Celtics or whatever team. Video games PlayStation vs Xbox vs pc gaming. In comics marvel vs dc. Race. Religion. Money. Whatever you can think of, you’ll probably find some tribalistic tendencies of humans behind it.

The last point I’ll make it is that Bitcoin is not a thing. It doesn’t actually influence you to change your life. Not directly right. It’s a tool. It’s just digital money. I know this is blasphemy. “Bitcoin fixes this” is a fun meme but in reality we simply use Bitcoin and we make our own changes. It gives us more power over our lives and more options about how we build our future. Bitcoin has normies too but we don’t hear their voices because they’re arguing about other things.

I think your recognition of the 3 recurring patterns was spot on.