A maximação tóxica e a abdicação voluntária do pensamento crítico são perigosas. A inflação galopante é um exemplo, como a hiperinflação na Venezuela em 2018, que atingiu 1.350.000%.

Klaus Schwab's puppets are waking up, how quaint.

Critical thinking is key, our ancestors thrived on animal fats and proteins.

Not enough toxic maximalism was employed, that's the problem. He was masquerading as a pleb so the pleb influencers gave him a pass because they were too busy circle jerking. Those who were toxic were silent and smeared.

No. NVK and coinkites behavior in the space was among the most terrible and "toxic". They got a pass *because* they behaved awfully and postured as toxic maxis. Not in spite of it. it works because "toxic maximalism" has NO safeguards to verify that other maxis are not full of shit. It is straight up groupthink only.

I don't know if bitcoin maximalism factors in here, but otherwise I think this is true. Many of us figured NVK being an asshole was one element of him being really really good at his job.

A lot of the reason this was SO bad is because coinkite managed to ensconce themselves as a kind of cornerstone of the culty maxi movement. There was a problem. The maxi community cannot virtue signal as cypherpunk bitcoiners unless they have a self-custody solution. But. Theyre mostly not technical, so they cant understand the trade-offs of software and they're inclined toward conspiracy, so they want protection against edge cases. The plebs NEEDED coinkite. They weren't interested in verifying. The company supported their worldview, their CEO acted "alpha" on social media. They were *right* and their eventual success and wealth was guaranteed if they only kept the faith like good incels. They were (and are) being sold an image and an entire worldview and CC were a foundational part of that. I'm really sorry to everyone who lost their savings and I'm extremely pissed off at the environment that made this such a big exploit.