{"id":35308,"date":"2017-03-13T13:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=35308"},"modified":"2017-03-13T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:31:54","slug":"perspective-of-a-former-bitcoin-maximalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/perspective-of-a-former-bitcoin-maximalist","title":{"rendered":"Perspective of a former \u201cBitcoin Maximalist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This pundit is very cogent, as he criticizes early Bitcoin adopters and evangelists. He believes that they are too wrapped up in the original blockchain implementation, and that what goes up must come down\u2014or, at least, that the earliest implementation of a new technology cannot adapt and become the durable leader in the field that it launched.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the <em>15-minutes-of fame<\/em> argument. But, I disagree! There are plenty of reasons to support, repair and expand Bitcoin\u2014rather than fragment goodwill and abandon and a viable, two-sided network into 3,000 altcoins and blockchain startups.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the author is very very bright and defends his position.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@theDAOKING\/the-flippening-how-i-learned-to-stop-loving-bitcoin-663e5db40707#.nwkvd7t8b\">\u201cThe Flippening\u201d &amp; How I Learned to Stop Loving Bitcoin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pundit is very cogent, as he criticizes early Bitcoin adopters and evangelists. He believes that they are too wrapped up in the original blockchain implementation, and that what goes up must come down\u2014or, at least, that the earliest implementation of a new technology cannot adapt and become the durable leader in the field that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761],"tags":[2161,2121,2662,2664,2663],"class_list":["post-35308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-ethereum","tag-flippening","tag-sebastian-moonjava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35313,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35308\/revisions\/35313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}