Cycles

4 knows the rabbit hole is deeper; 5 is convinced they’ve seen the bottom of the rabbit hole; 6 has yet to come.

Are you sure we actually understand Bitcoin?

A HODLer HODLs #Bitcoin. A Maximalist HODLs nothing else.

HODLer still has fiat to buy the dips

At one point I just realized I was throwing bitcoin away by buying sh*tcoins.

Maximalist lives in a bitcoin standard and also believes in using bitcoin as a medium of exchange.

Nocoiner → Doesn’t get it. Yet. Probably still trusts banks.

2. Precoiner → Curious, asking questions. Just one orange pill away.

3. Weak Hands → Buys high, sells low. Panics at every red candle.

4. HODLer → Diamond hands. Understands volatility ≠ risk.

5. Maximalist → Bitcoin only. Everything else is noise. Focused.

6. Node Runner → Validates truth. Doesn’t trust, verifies. Owns part of the network.

7. Miner → Provides energy security to the network. Turns electricity into freedom.

8. Self-Custodian → Owns their keys, owns their wealth. No third parties, no excuses.

9. Timechain Thinker → Lives on block time. Sees reality in 10-minute truths.

10. Sovereign Individual → Financially free. Low time preference. Lives by principles, not permission.

I consider myself at stage 10.

Hodlers: Those who just hold all possible BTC their fiat can buy.

Maximalist: Those who already don't have any more fiat and use their BTC as collateral to borrow more fiat to buy more Bitcoin :)

Maximalism is the rationale for a hodler.

Hodlerism is the execution of the maximalism ideal.

Maximalists spend their Bitcoin only to the degree it promotes it's adoption.

narrative preference.

Maxis don't use any other crypto other than BTC, whereas HODLers are people who store as much BTC as they can, and use other crypto like XMR and BCH.

4 holds the bitcoin he/she bought amongst other assets/monies

5 is where bitcoin is the money

An understanding and expectation of societal rewiring.

Keto —> carnivore

Embracing the inevitability of the bitcoin endgame and using that information to make decisions about almost everything.

A HODLer hunkers down and survives BTC winter. A Maximalist goes out and plays in the snow.

6. Monero User

Maximalist exploits any opportunity to acquire maximum amount of bitcoin. How else can you be maximalist of anything?

HODLr is in it for the long haul and/or the rebellion against fiat.

Maximalist sold all shitcoins for BTC, closed their fiat retirement accounts or directed them at BTC, and gets excited when the price falls.

A maxi understands that all other cryptos and fiat are shitcoins and lives close to a bitcoin standard, that includes using bitcoin for payments not just hodl.