Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, and Udi Wertheimer, a recovering Bitcoin maxi, talk about Bitcoin Maximalism, how Bitcoin is developing, and what’s the future of Bitcoin’s security model.
Show highlights:
- What the definition of Bitcoin maximalism is
- whether BTC maximalism is toxic
- whether Vitalik Buterin is still a bitcoiner and how Bitcoiners became the ‘token police’, according to Udi
- why Lyn thinks Bitcoin has been attacked by the media since the beginning
- the attacks by Bitcoin maximalists on Nic Carter and Andreas Antonopoulos
- how adoption kicked in during previous cycles and why it benefitted BTC
- what the different types of Bitcoiners are
- what developments are being made around Bitcoin
- the importance of Bitcoin being permissionless
- what the use cases for Bitcoin are and whether it’s still a highly speculative asset
- whether people care about using decentralized payment tools
- how Lyn defines ‘ultra sound money’ and why she thinks that Bitcoin is better at that than ETH
- whether Bitcoin’s security model needs to be fixed
- why being able to run a node is essential for censorship resistance
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