Self-proclaimed “crypto moderate” Nic Carter says that he got reamed by some members of the Bitcoin community after they discovered he wasn’t the hardcore Bitcoin maximalist they’d assumed.
“A lot of the self-appointed High Priests of Bitcoin thought of it as an opportunity to try and grow their stature in the Bitcoin community by trying to diminish me,” he says.
Carter is a venture capitalist at Castle Island Ventures and a prominent crypto commentator with his own army of 376,300 followers on X. He believes he came out on top, claiming the whole Bitcoin Maxi scene is kind of fading away anyway.
“I think the crowd of hardcore Bitcoiners is basically shrinking, and it looks to me like the moderates are winning. So I’ve got no regrets,” he laughs.
Su and Kyle rebranded as bitcoin maxis because they knew that the maxi community would be sufficiently dumb, cynical, and self serving to embrace them… perfect marks
— nic 🌠 carter (@nic__carter) January 12, 2023
The issue arose after some “hardcore Bitcoiners” believed Carter had moved from being exclusively into Bitcoin to exploring a polyamorous relationship with other crypto tokens. However, the truth is that he was never solely devoted to Bitcoin in the first place.
“I think that people just misunderstood my views. I have always been a moderate, but I previously was very Bitcoin-focused,” he explains.
“The reality is I’m a venture capitalist and I invest in all kinds of stuff. But I’ve always been open to other things like I was tracking the Ethereum launch very closely back in 2016.”
Carter was never keen on treating Bitcoin like a religion. As a religious person himself, he prefers to keep faith and assets separate.
“I didn’t like the religious aspects of it. I felt offended by that. I’m a Christian, I think religion is religion, and money is money. I think they’re different, and I don’t think we should commingle them,” he explains.
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