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The Narcissism of Small Differences

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Mark Mason

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The Narcissism of Small Differences

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Cryptocurrencies currently have many audiences. The initial audience included folks (this author is a member) that envisioned a currency with the same world-changing potential as the internet and open source. As many cryptos rose in value, they quickly caught the eye of those looking for speculative appreciation of value, ideologies be damned. As the news cycle caught on, the mainstream audience started to pay attention. Their perception of cryptocurrencies are all over the place, but certainly most are taking a more tentative approach.

This added attention has also given the non-nerd crowd a peek behind the curtain unveiling the communities surrounding the cryptocurrencies. And it’s not a pretty picture. There is so much infighting, sniping, FUD, and of course trolling. So much trolling. Some banter manifests as real debate and voices of concern. A lot is steeped in ideology. Often discussions are truly passionate. But quite a bit has malicious intent, or is linked pure manipulative greed. And all of this is padded with heaps of inane trolling. Most of it is purely juvenile.

What so many people don’t understand is that we are really one community. But one community that has splintered into many factions. Factions that ultimately weaken the whole community.

Of the many communities, the granddaddy of them all is the Bitcoin community. The legendary disagreements in that community almost all surround the scaling debate(s) and to a lessor extent maybe anonymity. The debate is still ongoing and has resulted in relegating Bitcoin (for now) to being Gold 2.0 and spinning off a number of forks and making a lot more space for the many so-called “altcoins”.

Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/the-narcissism-of-small-differences/
 
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