Every time I present what I think are new ideas to bitcoiners, they ignore them. Maybe it’s because they’re not great, or other people have already thought of them, or maybe because they don’t know me, they imagine I can’t possibly have something great or that hasn’t been thought of. It’s impossible for me to know because, as I said, I don’t get a response.

I don’t begrudge them — I don’t respond to everyone on Twitter, where I have a following, either. But it’s just a fact of migrating to a different protocol and a different domain than the one in which I’ve worked for 15 years. And it might well be the ideas are shit. I believe in them, but I haven’t gotten any critical feedback, so who knows?

I do think outsiders once in a while have something to say that hasn’t been considered by insiders who are more prone to groupthink, simply by being exposed to the current state of things. Usually outsiders are flat wrong and going over well-trod territory, though. Which is why they are ignored.

I will say even on my anonymous Twitter account which has few followers, the bitcoiners are usually helpful and generous with answers to technical questions — and by bitcoiners I mean maxis, the only ones I ask.