Which Way, Bitcoiner? On Purism Vs Impact And Size Vs Irrelevance
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When you’re at the top, the haters proliferate: Taylor knows it, Brady knows it, Rogan knows it, Tarantino knows it. Basking in the orange fame, Bitcoiners are coming to know it too. This is what winning looks like… which is why so many people are out to get us. I received a decent amount of pushback for my Vegas “apologist” Take in early June (“Vegas Comedown, or Was Bitcoin 2025 Too Noisy?”). It’s trendy among “hardcore” Bitcoiners and true, in-the-weeds Cypherpunk types to sling dirt on Bitcoin Magazine and major Bitcoin events. The main objection is always different flavors of the same thing: It’s too base, it’s too corporate, it’s catering to normies, there are too many parasites. Basically, it’s too big and too successful: Imagine a startup saying “man, I wish we stayed small and generated very little revenue with barely any users and faded into obscurity.” That’s how some bitconers posture about bitcoin. Bitcoin is the greatest digitally scarce asset and money…the world wants it. That’s GREAT!🔥 — Trey Walsh (@ktreywalsh) July 30, 2025 We (BTC Inc — the parent company of Bitcoin Magazine and the organizer of the largest Bitcoin conference(s) in the world) — had brought everyone who is anyone to Vegas, plus a bunch of politicians and company execs and establishment elites. (In short, we turned Sin City into Simp City.) Not everyone was happy about that — not even within our own ranks, demonstrably so by Shinobi refusing to attend. Like I pointed out in the comedown piece, that kind of size and mainstreaming attracts a lot of parasites. Have Bitcoiners Lost Their Way? Right after Vegas, I attended a much less ostentatious affair, hidden away in the back alleys of Barcelona during peak tourist season. The BCC8333, Barcelona Cyphers Conference, saw a hundred…
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