How is bitcoin maximalism presently taken by everyone in bitcointalk?
New policy: I present myself as a fearsome “Bitcoin maxi” to altcoiners, and I chat about my favourite altcoins to Bitcoiners. Thus, I can discover who my true friends are. This optimizes for the human element. So does intransigent opposition to scams.
I have been intending to write an essay with my own take on Bitcoin maximalism, but I am not sure if this forum is the right place to publish it.
These represent people who insist the Bitcoin network be left exactly how Satoshi made it - with no soft forks that add rules & functionality of any kind [as a side note, this is how coins like Bitcoin XT/Gold/Unlimited/Cash/SV were made].
That’s backwards. All of the scams that you list made hardfork changes, while most of them accept post-Satoshi softfork changes such as P2SH (activated 2012-04-01). Only Bitcoin has retained the
status quo, with only backwards compatible changes since (IIRC) BIP 50/Bitcoin v0.8.1 (?) in 2013. AFAIK, the only forkscam that even claims to be “exactly how Satoshi made it” is BSV—the perpetrator of which
demands that Bitcoin make hardfork changes to seize coins. I think that shows the nature of Faketoshi’s nonsense about Bitcoin being allegedly “carved in stone”: He is upset that Bitcoin’s
blockchain is actually carved in stone, never mind the consensus rules.
(I need not reach the rest of this discussion.)