Bitcoin is a bit different for me now, as compared to 6 years ago, even if I have largely stayed invested financially, my understanding and my comfort has changed, and I have complete discretion whether I change my strategy or largely stick with a strategy that I had incrementally tweaked along the way in the last 6 years. For me, it has not been "all or nothing" but some people prefer to think of bitcoin in that kind of way, and that may or may not work out too well for them. I personally, don't feel hardly any need to hedge some of my bet into various shitcoin projects, but I am not going to totally denigrate someone else who does hedge into various side projects and tries to build those aspects of the ecosystem unless their practice is to denigrate/negate bitcoin while they are doing it and/or try to act like their project is a kind of bitcoin 2.0 or engage what I believe to be misrepresentations, when instead it might merely be some kind of interesting side-project in which it is o.k. to have a variety of people working on those kinds of side-projects (not like you can stop people from doing what they are going to do or that it is even desirable to attempt to stop them from working on what they do or even having various kinds of seemingly pie in the sky detached from reality visions regarding the speculative importance of their project(s)).
Thanks for sharing this. I like and agree to the perspective that you cannot stop people from attempting to go their own way and try to get a shot at glory with their own projects and that the problems arise when lot of these people try to paint bitcoin's future by taking analogies from other technologies.
To entice newbies as well as the marketing types, it is very easy to say things like "Bitcoin is like Vacuum tubes used in old radio system. The muliti-chain, multi-token, Federated voting, Distributed PoS bullshit we are working on is the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor you need.". The understanding that bitcoin is technologically the best at what it does and that it is impossible and fraudulent to replicate/ replace the network effect comes too late or never does.
We do need a bit of exposition on this idea that bitcoin is in itself
the technology that will evolve. Bitcoin is not Yahoomail that will be taken over by Gmail. It is not DEC that will lose the computer business to IBM. For an analogy, Bitcoin is more like internet itself for which Yahoo and Gmail are the same thing. Its like semiconductor manufacturing for which Vacuum thyristor and IGBT are the same thing.