My favorite Bitcoin maxi conversation revolves around the “99% of altcoins are scams are scams” argument

Every time I ask what are the 1% (or 0.1%), people frown at me & give the most predictable NPC answer which usually doesn’t mention any coin names but calls me a shitcoiner.

Very few guys have the balls to admit that Monero, Litecoin, Grin & Kaspa are fair. Even fewer dare to admit that Ethereum and Zcash have merits and push research beyond commonly held beliefs about what is possible and what is not.

But I’m always amazed to discover how out of touch these guys are when it comes to markets. Some will openly say that USDT is great… but mention you should only use it on Liquid & Taproot Assets where the liquidity is abysmal. When you mention that Tron, Solana & Ethereum have 1000x more volume, they will make some predictable excuse about Tether not needing decentralization.

If you point out that WBTC on Ethereum has 100k BTC locked in it while Lightning is stuck at 5k for half a decade, you’re a shitcoin apologist with high time preference.

But the same guys who call themselves maximalists will express strong (and extremely predictable) views against Drivechains, ZK rollups, ZK STARKs & Shielded CSV. You know, the stuff that actually scales Bitcoin and brings more users from other networks in order to pay the miners for security.

This whole culture is beta decel fuckery, not much different from Amish people preaching to city dwellers that electricity is evil. Burn it all to the ground and learn to ignore the grifters & feds who try to stall progress for their own benefit.

Try new software, learn new stuff. It doesn’t cost you anything to install a wallet, join a Telegram chat where community members will gladly send you some coins to play with, and think about whether or not you’d like to see it on Bitcoin.

It costs you nothing to think for yourself instead of reciting from the lazy NPC textbook. It costs you nothing to understand the spirit of open source software, where people run experiments to test new ideas in the wild.

2017 was 8 years ago. So much has improved since then. You’re probably smart enough to distinguish between something that pushes new tech and a memecoin/ICO token.

Escape the matrix and dare to explore and ask questions. Outside the Bitcoin drama, there are people who actively build the future of money and finance. It’s all open source. To survive, Bitcoin will have to embrace some of it. It’s better to learn now than to fall behind.

Remember the wonder of discovering new stuff about how Bitcoin works? You’ll find much more of that in Ethereum, Zcash, Monero, Kaspa, Quai, and other state of the art blockchains that truly push the limits of the parameters some people built cults around.

You call yourself free, but you’re afraid to try Ethereum which is an implementation of Bitcoin’s colored coins/Counterparty? You like Blockstream, but you haven’t tried their tech on Monero and Litecoin? You think you understand how privscy works, but you never tested the Zerocash protocol on top of Satoshi’s tech (Zcash)?

It’s time to start learning! The future of Bitcoin depends on it.