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Garlinghouse is a GENIUS at being a weasel.

That means that he’s going to be good at finding the most effective marketing campaign that a weasel could find.

Going after Maximalism is going to be effective. Not accurate or grounded in values of course just effective.

Everyone outside of Bitcoin does in fact hate the “maxis”. An effective campaign here against maxis is one where:

1. Everyone is brainwashed into believing that Bitcoin is not the discovery or invention that it is.

2. It’s ridiculous to believe only 1 of 20M cryptos is the only one that matters.

3. Banks need technologies more effective than Bitcoin.

4. Maxis are mean, evil, and they will control all of our money if we don’t get other cryptos adopted.

From my experience in trying to orange pill people in power at the top of the fiat game, those smug buttplugs are now looking for a way not to look stupid on missing Bitcoin and this is their chance. They get to find some way to blame it on maxis being having the concentration of capital.

Stay frosty, friends.

PS. I don’t ascribe to being a “maxi”. This was very fun to call myself this in response to Vitalik’s epithet in a self deprecating way. But groups of people that adopt a set of definitions and labels have suboptimal outcomes throughout history. The group members have to adopt the new rules and definitions as they go or a member is ostracized and the reward for honoring each new definition is groupthink.

No thank you.

Groupthink flies in the face of individuality. Individuality is upstream of creativity.

Promoting individuality is my shit. Everyone is so beautifully weird and interesting when they get out of shackles, labels or expectations.

So be creative with how to be on the offensive with Garlinghouse and the lot if you are sharpening your sword right now. Don’t be surprised if blindly adopting the maxi shared voice of attacking is counterproductive.

Be you. Get creative. Let the individuality come through that will break this weasel’s campaign at its core. The genius of this campaign is calling out the negative traits of groupthink.

Svoboda 11mo ago

Agree that it will be effective for some, especially those that don't do a single shred of research to find out the WHY specific to Ripple.

Also, and maybe it's just my version of maximalism, but I've never bought in on #2. First, I'm a firm believer that you're free to spend the money you've worked for any way you wish, even if it is detrimental to you. Second, I believe in alternative use cases for digital assets and others can provide those -- but there are a litany of issues that usually make them non-starters.

For example, supply chains could be vastly improved with an IoT sensor-based blockchains. However, logistics firms certainly do not want supreme accountability and have fought against adoption. Why would a company take on additional tech overhead/cost to then be held accountable for breakage/spoilage/delays, etc.

But back to Garlicbread, he is a fight that every Bitcoiner should take on. When someone openly tells you they're Lex Luthor, you should believe them. They don't even hide their desire for world domination via being the global CBDC rails.

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PDJ 11mo ago

I agree with you more than you can imagine. I was helping a company in the cattle industry and saw some applications for tracking cattle that was exciting. Just register as a company and a technology. You don’t need to be a token to solve a problem.