Oddbean new post about login | logout Bitcoin maximalism used to mean “this network is the most robust, so every successful experiment that has market demand will be built on top of it”. It somehow degenerated into “anything but this one network is a scam, so we’ll ignore markets by calling participants scammers & frown upon different tech by calling it scammy for even being developed”
Really? When Vitalik first used the phrase, was he referring to devs wanting to build successful experiments on bitcoin and not eth? I don't remember the context. People argue over what it means, but it really is just leaning into an insult ethereans came up with. It's a meme that probably means very little. Yes, I am a maximalist. Yes, I am living a weird mountain man fantasy.
Read the article yourself: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/20/bitcoin-maximalism-currency-platform-network-effects
First paragraph explains how you are wrong. Why not just admit it directly?
See his references: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2m30j6/comment/cm1bton/
The first one is kind of absurd on its face. Like saying "my government is the most flexible, so the entire human race will coalesce here, and that'll be that, the end." Humans just ain't that enlightened! 🤣