There is no such thing as "Bitcoin Maximalism".
People who use that expression are usually just looking for a sorry excuse why their beloved Altcoin fails.
So-called "Bitcoin Maximalists" are usually simply conservative in that they prefer a decentralized, stable, well-developed blockchain as the basis for a digital currency over some random, premined or ICOed copycat with feature-bloat.
The term “
Bitcoin-maximalist” was first coined by the developer of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin.
Maximalist believes that Bitcoin
BTC is the only cryptocurrency that matters.
Maximalists believe that most altcoins do not have real use cases and speculatively trade on exchanges to get more BitcoinsBTC.This is a philosophy that has the right to exist.
this has nothing to do with bitcoin minimalism but the way of thinking you are mentioning here in green doesn't come out of nowhere and based on nothing. it comes from the fact that whenever you look at the altcoins the only thing you see is useless projects created for pump and dumping purposes. when you go to altcoin circles like reddit boards, the altcoin board in this forum,... the only discussions you see are about how you can make more profit on your bitcoins. whenever you go to each of these circles the top posts belong to shitcoins that get pumped the most not an altcoin that is actually good but has no pumps.
if you don't believe me you are one click away from proof:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0none of the coins that are mentioned in these topics on first page are any good. they are all pure pump coins.
saying "all" is obviously wrong but it is not that off the mark when 99% of the altcoins (including creation of Vitalik Buterin) match this description.