Nick Szabo  🔑

This distinction is better. I just recall Beautyon getting riled about there not being a "Bitcoin Community".

There are many Bitcoin communities

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.

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?

They would be part of the bitcoin community. But not part of my neighborhood community.

excellent! totally fine with that, & unlike many in identity politics groups, I *acknowledge* that we're a very small minority of society i just don't want to get a bunch of folks hype about bitcoin & then have them aggressively socially policed by the incumbent community

I have to say I've never witnessed anything even close to that in any "Bitcoin circle" I was part of. Even culturally conservative bitcoiners I know are actually very nice/welcoming/pleasant/polite/civilized IRL.