This one is actually interesting to me.
The whole Maxis vs the world thing does not seem to be fading away. And it's more complicated than, for example, Mark Cuban thinks.
I actually ran sound for an old friend last night who is a musician, but also a C-level executive for the Mavericks. So I imagine he's pretty tight with Cuban, I don't know though, I do not talk much with him about work. But it was tempting to bring up Mark's recent clash with Pysh and the others on Twitter. In fact I played drums for him on a short tour from Texas to Wyoming a few years ago, and I talked about Bitcoin at the time. At that time he was an accountant for the Mavs only... he had not reached the C-Suite yet. Anyway I digress. IF I remeber correctly his position on Bitcoin was fairly typical for the average responsible person. Something along the lines of "That's interesting, but you ought not put all your eggs into a crazy basket like that. You ought to be saving up for retirement mostly".
Anyway... I think Mark is one of the poster boys for the "Bitcoin Maxis Suck" team right now. And I think the whole thing is a sort of 3D problem. Not as simple as he, or someone on our side would make it out.
On one had you have a bunch of assholes going around saying things like "HFSP" mostly because they like to be abrasive. The way to be art of the "In crowd" is to virtue signal with all kinds of caustic gestures to people who are NOT in the in crowd.
On another hand (this things gonna have several hands lol) you have Bitcoin's "auto immune system". These people are the gatekeepers for purity. Though they are related to the above assholes they are also somewhat responsible for drawing the stark line between Bitcoin and all the endless list of scammy shitcoins, and pointing out the difference for those who have ears to hear, so to speak.
Then you have the sort of aspergers crowd that inevitably will be drawn to a pure CS project that is based on exotic math. Sort of a special subclass of the above.
But finally (perhaps) we have the people that I believe that meme sort of points out. People like a lot of us, I think. People like me on that endless van ride from TX to WY and back getting to hear from someone for the 2000th time about how I was going to lose all my money. And the guy was both smart, and probably extremely right in general. He was, for a while, the CFO of an NBA team (before he was promoted again)! Bitcoin was worse than a penny stock then (If you didn't get it).
But those sorts of conversations have hardened us, as well as weeded out those of us who really DIDN'T see from early on how Bitcoin would change the world. Leaving a set of people who, though not just getting off on saying things like "NGMI" or "HFSP", but folks who have to be like the guy in the meme to survive. People who may not have much tolerance for hearing about how lucky they got in the coming years from the same people who lambasted them as they held through multiple 85% draw downs.
I wanted to ask my friend about Cuban, since to some extent I think *he* is the lucky one... sold a useless business (broadcast.com) at the height of the dotcom bubble.
And now just seems mad theat these "mean internet millennials" are getting rich "by accident and without deserving it" because of stupid internet money that he made fun of for years before trying to "join the scam" by latching onto another billionaire who is also kind of full of shit (youknowwho) .
But i figure conversations like that with my buddy would end up with me looking like one of those assholes up there... So instead we just did the "Hows it goin? Haven't seen you in a while!" "Great! You still working for the hospital" sort of conversation instead.
And... in the end, I couldn't give a shit what other people think. I *was* lucky to be here, yes. But it was NOT luck that kept me here for the last 10+ years.
(Edit- I realize I might be getting the reputation of telling tall tales... Met Robert Moog, friends with a C level guy on the Mavs. But all true (or is it? lol), and I guess it's kind of bad for my opsec... but I feel like I have trashed that ages ago at this point...)