Bitcoin Magazine Which Way, Bitcoiner? On Purism vs Impact and Size vs Irrelevance

When you’re at the top, the haters proliferate: Taylor knows it, Brady knows it, Rogan knows it, Tarantino knows it.

Basking in the orange fame, Bitcoiners are coming to know it too. This is what winning looks like… which is why so many people are out to get us.

I received a decent amount of pushback for my Vegas “apologist” Take in early June (“Vegas Comedown, or Was Bitcoin 2025 Too Noisy?”). It’s trendy among “hardcore” Bitcoiners and true, in-the-weeds Cypherpunk types to sling dirt on Bitcoin Magazine and major Bitcoin events.

The main objection is always different flavors of the same thing: It’s too base, it’s too corporate, it’s catering to normies, there are too many parasites. Basically, it’s to

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