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for the BTC maximalists community! Best bunch ever!!! 
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Never really understood the idea of there being "No bitcoin community." I think some want to give the term a much stricter definition than it actually has but it just means a group that has something in common, especially if it forms a network of interaction in some way.
Already words for this: "group", "set", etc. Before PR people got ahold of the word "community" it meant groups of people who regularly talk to each other. Unless you have a better word for this concept we need to keep using "community" in this crucial traditional sense.
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I'm curious, bc I respect your work immensely but our social politics diverge significantly (tho I try to keep an open mind) - if I onboard a bunch of queer liberal weirdos to enthusiastically adopt bitcoin, would you consider them part of "the community, " in this definition?
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I will say it again until I'm hoarse, there is no "the community." It's very undesirable to exclude anybody from using Bitcoin, indeed quite by design we cannot even in situations where most might want to, and I quite welcome them and everybody else who wants to to use it.
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People cannot and should not be excluded from using Bitcoin, but by the very nature of humans and communities they can be excluded from particular communities. That is one of the reasons why there are multiple communities, not some single monolithic community.
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I would frame it this way: - there's the Bitcoin network/software/protocol (not a community), - there's the bitcoin asset (not a community), - there's the set of people who will eventually need/use Bitcoin/bitcoin (not a community, or Bitcoin/bitcoin would be pointless), ...
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I use "ecosystem" to minimize "community" as much as possible
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There is a group of Bitcoin Maximalists that regularly talk to each other, for example here on Twitter. (But also on conferences, podcasts, etc.) So it would seem to me that OP was using the term correctly?
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Yes, but it's also important to distinguish why they are talking to each other. There are different causes for clustering. Sometimes clustering emerges around support for a given asset. We've been referring to this using the term "community cluster around X".
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Sure, ok but does that mean there's no btc community because not all factions within it are in direct communication with each other? Likewise does the fact I don't know all my neighbours mean there's no local community in my town?
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Dunno about applying it to Bitcoin, but I wouldn't consider there to be a "local community" if there's no interaction
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Not no interaction at all but rather not everyone knowing each and every other person. This is generally the case in modern cities (I'm from London) where everyone knows someone on their street but not necessarily everybody.
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Yes, words must not be hijacked. Powerful ones such as 'progressive' 'elites' 'racism' 'antisemitism' for example
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