The Death Throes of Toxic Maximalism w/Johnny: Pittsburgh PA | Ep. 032

Reed, I think you were gonna jump in.

Did you have something?

I was gonna make actually a similar point.

Like, we-

Okay.

So, um, all the way b- Yeah, like we've been-- This kind of point has been brought up before, right? Like, we, we're a podcast about Bitcoin meetups exclusively.

So, like, we talk about this stuff all the time, and like one of the common things that we get is like, "Well, why should I go to a meetup in person anyways?" And one of the first really great answers that we got to that question on this podcast was like, I mean, when you're online, you don't really know who you're talking to, right? Like, and especially in the age of AI, like we hear stories about, you know- Getting a phone call and having it be from a voice that you recognize, and all of a sudden you don't realize it, but you're not actually talking to that person.

And so when you go to a in-person event and you start to actually get to know these people, like for real, there are like some very easy things that you can do to help combat that.

Um, and the other thing too is you get to filter, you know, what information.

We all kind of hang out maybe on different places on the internet.

It's very easy to find yourself in like your own little world or your own little bubble of community that all kind of think and agree about a lot of the same things.

But when you come together with like your physical, local physical area, you get to find out what everybody else is learning, and we get to all kind of bounce ideas off each other.

You know, you talked about too, like it's important, I think, to listen to, you know, if there's someone who's very passionate about, you know, maybe from before, like the BIP-110 thing, um, let's hear their perspective on it.

You know, why do you think that? Like can we-- Like, let's just have like a real conversation about why this is important or why I think this-

We had-

... or why you think this.

We had, I mean, you know, there was only five to 10 people showing up, and one person was very into the BIP-110, and it, it was a topic of conversation because it was relevant topic of conversation.

And there, it, there-- But like there's other things that I, I like to get into talking about and I want to talk about with you guys, uh, even on this, uh, show, and that's, uh, specifically like what is the broader toxic aspects of Bitcoin culture that come from how we're treating BIP-110 people inside of the culture, right? Or, or vice versa, how they're treating us, y- y- you know, like in, in that framework.

Um, and I think it stems from w- being an internet-based culture and internet native currency, right? Like this internet.

And so there's this really interesting interplay between what you're talking about and then, you know, pressing flesh and shaking somebody's hand and having to deal with...

Like if you go hard on somebody in a chat room, and I've done that with, on Oster, you know, different times with different people, um, you know, by the way, wanna talk about that as well at some point, but we'll get to it.

Uh, you know, you, you don't, typically don't get into it as hard in person with people, right? So, um, I think, I think there's the most important thing, the most important thing for why you need to go, uh, to, uh, meet up is first of all, if you don't know anything about Bitcoin, you found this podcast, then welcome, right? Like y- we're, it's, it's here for everybody.

Not here for the opinionator or the educated, it's here for everybody.

And the, the second thing is, you know, you need to go to a Bitcoin meetup so that you can ask the questions, uh, to not get scammed.

[chuckles] To, to RevSpun.