Mark Saint

Over the 17 years since Bitcoin was created, how many critiques have come from someone with a shitcoin to sell - a shitcoin that conveniently improves upon the same aspect of Bitcoin that they feel falls short? We needed bigger blocks? Smart contracts? Better privacy? Faster throughput? Proof of stake? Less energy use? We needed to support ICOs or be an NFT platform? How many of those were just salesmen trying to sell a shitcoin that went to zero against $BTC like everything else? Even dyed-in-the-wool shitcoiners like Voorhees will admit to at least 99% of crypto being scams and fraud. So you see, reflexively dismissing arguments from anyone who has a shitcoin to sell is a pretty solid heuristic, because (even shitcoiners would agree) it works at least 99% of the time. Given that there are upwards of 20,000 shitcoins, it’s probably more like 99.99%. Perhaps zcash is more than just a scammy penny stock to cash in on. I wouldn’t bet on it. I wouldn’t take the other side of a 9999:1 bet on anything. We have a word for people like that: we call them poor. And stupid. Because a simply as a matter of epistemology, there are few heuristics - fuck there are few ways of knowing anything at all - that exceed the utility of simply ignoring everything that someone has to say if they have a shitcoin in their Twitter bio. There’s a danger of being the shitcoiner who cried wolf here. Because after almost two decades of shitcoiners telling Bitcoiners that Bitcoin was broken and needed to change - and being wrong about it - quantum might actually be a wolf that needs to be confronted. And unfortunately, given the complexity and opacity of the threat, most people will be assessing what is being said by who is saying it, and the only people they’re going to listen to are the people who have been right all along about Bitcoin not kowtowing to the latest shitcoiner FUD. So yes Eli, while I think what you’re saying here might have some merit, I think you’re actually harming progress by saying it. Because people who need to take it seriously will be less - not more - likely to take it seriously when it’s being promulgated by someone with a shitcoin in their fucking Twitter bio. Selling shitcoins might make you some money, but it comes at the cost of your credibility. Perhaps you don’t think it should be that way. But that’s the way it is.

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