Karel on Nostr: Monero :). I'm more of an anarchist than a bitcoiner. Bitcoin is great. It makes a ...
Monero :).
I'm more of an anarchist than a bitcoiner. Bitcoin is great. It makes a revolution. It opens minds to enormous amount of people. It brought me to anarchy and freedom and changed my life. And since I only use bitcoin 99% of the time, I could theoretically call myself a bitcoin "maximalist",
BUT
I don't want to use that label because I want to keep an open mind. What if at some point in the future a project comes along that is very much in the spirit of anarchy, individual self-sufficiency, unbanking, etc.? - what is the greater value then? Devotion to bitcoin, or devotion to freedom in the bigger picture?
Anyway, of course I understand the position of bitcoin maximalism as a protection against scammers and centralised projects. It's great for newbies not to get burned and ripped off. But at the same time, I hope I'm not such a newbie anymore and don't need to protect myself with some kind of mind enclosure and tunnel vision.
Also, I would be unfair if I said, that crypto never helped me in my life... For example few years ago I was able to create a loan with bitcoin as collateral through defi (when I was traveling far away from home), which helped me to be independent from the banking system and also saved me from selling bitcoin, the value of which I wanted to preserve. So I used bitcoin as collateral, got a loan (a fully anonymous one) in some shitcoin, which I immediately sold for dollars, which I used for food and gas and once I managed to find a job I paid off the loan and didn't lose a satoshi thanks to it.
Of course, nowadays collateralized loans are created over bitcoin (because it's a really cool idea and another step towards independence from the banking system), but back then it only worked in crypto.
And crypto space often functions as a kind of experimental place where different financial tools are tried out while Bitcoin waits to see what works and what fails enormously and after few years calmly implements what worked well, but if it weren't for the crypto world being the crazy wild west experimenting with the craziest ideas, eventually bitcoin would also be impoverished because it would either have to experiment on its own or it wouldn't get to the interesting possibilities it has learned from few successful crypto projects (best example are again the collateralized loans over btc)
So yes, I am into bitcoin. But at the same time, I don't want to close my mind with ideological wars. Right now I'm using only Bitcoin because I feel bitcoin is the best. But once it's not the best for whatever reason, I'll logically use something else. If it weren't the case, then that would mean it was just a religion all the time.
I'm more of an anarchist than a bitcoiner. Bitcoin is great. It makes a revolution. It opens minds to enormous amount of people. It brought me to anarchy and freedom and changed my life. And since I only use bitcoin 99% of the time, I could theoretically call myself a bitcoin "maximalist",
BUT
I don't want to use that label because I want to keep an open mind. What if at some point in the future a project comes along that is very much in the spirit of anarchy, individual self-sufficiency, unbanking, etc.? - what is the greater value then? Devotion to bitcoin, or devotion to freedom in the bigger picture?
Anyway, of course I understand the position of bitcoin maximalism as a protection against scammers and centralised projects. It's great for newbies not to get burned and ripped off. But at the same time, I hope I'm not such a newbie anymore and don't need to protect myself with some kind of mind enclosure and tunnel vision.
Also, I would be unfair if I said, that crypto never helped me in my life... For example few years ago I was able to create a loan with bitcoin as collateral through defi (when I was traveling far away from home), which helped me to be independent from the banking system and also saved me from selling bitcoin, the value of which I wanted to preserve. So I used bitcoin as collateral, got a loan (a fully anonymous one) in some shitcoin, which I immediately sold for dollars, which I used for food and gas and once I managed to find a job I paid off the loan and didn't lose a satoshi thanks to it.
Of course, nowadays collateralized loans are created over bitcoin (because it's a really cool idea and another step towards independence from the banking system), but back then it only worked in crypto.
And crypto space often functions as a kind of experimental place where different financial tools are tried out while Bitcoin waits to see what works and what fails enormously and after few years calmly implements what worked well, but if it weren't for the crypto world being the crazy wild west experimenting with the craziest ideas, eventually bitcoin would also be impoverished because it would either have to experiment on its own or it wouldn't get to the interesting possibilities it has learned from few successful crypto projects (best example are again the collateralized loans over btc)
So yes, I am into bitcoin. But at the same time, I don't want to close my mind with ideological wars. Right now I'm using only Bitcoin because I feel bitcoin is the best. But once it's not the best for whatever reason, I'll logically use something else. If it weren't the case, then that would mean it was just a religion all the time.