That's probably the worst aspect of crypto communities. Early in BTC the talk was about the tech and possibilities, trading/selling goods for BTC.
Those sort of comments you mention started creeping in, but now that is the mainstay, in every individual crypto community. I dont care that they are speculation vehicles, but pretending you are changing the world just grates. And the constant calls to HODL, which used to be humourous, are now just so much propaganda.
So true. I wish that the Bitcoin community had seen that fundamentally BTC would only become inequitable as it grew. If early adopters knew that it would eventually reach $50,000, they would be billionaires, and that it would be used far more as a Ponzi scheme / bubble than for anything useful, I think they'd be more horrified than happy.
> Early in BTC the talk was about the tech and possibilities
People who care about that have already moved on. Bitcoin has failed in that aspect, only speculators still care about it. The fact it's still the number one coin despite the existence of coins with better fundamentals like Monero and Ethereum is proof of how irrational this market is.
Those sort of comments you mention started creeping in, but now that is the mainstay, in every individual crypto community. I dont care that they are speculation vehicles, but pretending you are changing the world just grates. And the constant calls to HODL, which used to be humourous, are now just so much propaganda.