Quote from: tokeweed on Today at 03:43:42 PM

^ ^ It's starting imho. All it takes is a little bit more of critical thinking and for the people in the Bitcoin community to start asking questions. The most obvious one being why are there still lots of DNM users still continuing to use BTC? They should drop it as BTC isn't really built for keeping your wallets' blockchain info safe from the prying eyes of TPTB. Even their most prized use case of the store of value narrative isn't really that strong without Monero's features.

Quote from: infofront on April 13, 2022, 04:19:19 AM

Quote from: smooth on April 09, 2022, 03:27:44 AM

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on April 09, 2022, 02:11:43 AM

And it is sad that the WO has gotten so out of hand.

I'm trying to remember when it wasn't.

I've got nothing.

I blame cAPSLOCK and Heuristic

Just curious... What happened?

Well I won't speak for smooth whose beef might be different. But we had a combination of an influx of noisy noobs, which cause some of the longer time folks to bristle a little as they fish for merits. Also some folks getting mad about doom-y TA from said noobs.

But also there have been a few accounts, and one in particular that just went off the deep end acting like absolute assholes. Personally I was a bit offended when after letting the board know I had just tested positive for covid this asshole started going on about how stupid we are to believe it was real more or less. I don;t have very much bandwidth for people who cannot have a little nuance. I am actually in the camp that thinks we severely over-reacted to covid, and that the vaccines were at best duds. But I have compassion for folks going through it. I know people who have died from it, and anyway... yeah mainly one asshole.

As to the maxis being maxis. That does not bother me all that much. Again, I prefer nuance but tolerate maxis on both the Bitcoin and Monero side. While I think I have made it clear I see a world in which both flourish. So I have never minded those sorts of views expressed here, or there.

One thing I agree strongly on is Monero's privacy is about to make the same kind of lightbulb go off to a LARGE wave of people as it did for so many of us. The Guns'n'Bitcoin folks... McCormack, et al. There are a LOT of reasonable Bitcoinners, even maxis starting to admit the fact that Monero does something that not only can Bitcoin NOT do, but that it probably never should. I think we see privacy improve on layer 2. But we are nowhere near there yet. And the short squeeze coming for Monero might be crazy-go-nuts.