Nice. I also like the somewhat related concepts of Veblen goods and shibboleths. Both hard to acquire signals that you are part of a group (the former through cost and latter through language, originally literally unable to pronounce a word).
this piece is kinda focused on NFTs, but i think it poses an interesting question
https://niftys.substack.com/p/is-it-ingroup-or-is-it-dynasty
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oooh that's a good one! i think bitcoiners, with all our fancy tech terms, definitely fall a bit in the shibboleth category as well haha